Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
Here follow several questions of a parable-like kind, to awaken conviction in the people.
Can two walk together, except they be agreed? - Can God's prophets be so unanimous in prophesying against you, if God's Spirit were not joined with them, or if their prophecies were false? The Israelites were "at ease," not believing that God was with the prophets in their denunciations of coming ruin to the nations (Amos 6:1; Amos 6:3, "Woe to them that are at ease in Zion;" cf. Ahab's disbelief of Micaiah's denunciation of evil, 1 Kings 22:18; 1 Kings 22:24; 1 Kings 22:27; and Johanan's disbelief of Jeremiah's warning of evil, if the Jewish remnant should go down to Egypt, Jeremiah 43:2). This view accords with Amos 3:7-8, "Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but He revealeth His secret unto His servants the prophets ... the Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy?" So "I will be with thy mouth" (Exodus 4:12; Jeremiah 1:8; Matthew 10:20, "It is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you). If the prophets and God were not agreed, the former could not predict the future as they do. In Amos 2:12 he had said, the Israelites forbade the prophets prophesying; therefore (in Amos 3:3; Amos 3:8) here he asserts the agreement between the prophets and God, who spake by them against Israel (Rosenmuller).
Rather, the connection of the sense is, I once "walked among" and with you (Leviticus 26:12) as a Father and Husband (Isaiah 54:5; Jeremiah 3:14, "I am married unto you"); but now your way and mine are utterly diverse, there can therefore be no fellowship between us such as there was when "you only I knew of all the families of the earth" (Amos 3:2): I will walk with you only to "punish you:" as a "lion" walks with his "prey" (Amos 3:4), as a bird-catcher with a bird (Tarnovius). The prophets, and all servants of God, can have no fellowship with the ungodly (Psalms 119:63; 2 Corinthians 6:16-17; Ephesians 5:11; James 4:4, "Know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.")