Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; Because they have rejected Yahweh's law, And have not kept his statutes, And their lies have led them astray, After which their fathers walked;
"Because they have rejected the law of Jehovah ..." Amos could not have formulated a more perfect reference to the Pentateuch, the prior corpus of the divine Law of God, known and received by all the Israelites for generations prior to Amos' times.  As Dummelow said, "These offenses are against a law set forth by positive commandments."[13]  The word, "Law, here refers to the Torah, the general name for the whole body of precepts and commandments."[14]  Thus, Judah is not judged for the wild excesses of the heathen, but for their rejection of the Lord's word.  "Judah is not immune to God's judgment because they are God's elect; indeed their judgments are greater because they are his, and being his, they chose to rebel against him."[15]  Jamieson was correct in his discernment that this prophecy against Judah was included here, "Lest it should be said that Amos was strenuous in denouncing sins abroad, but connived at those of his own nation."[16]  He also positively identified "the law of Jehovah," in this place as, "The Mosaic Code in general."[17]  It is difficult to be patient with the type of false definition of "law of Jehovah," as used here, which occurs in so many commentaries of the various liberal persuasions, such as: "Here it must mean religious and moral teaching given in Jehovah's name by priest and prophet."[18]  Such a definition, of course, presupposes that there actually was no "law of Jehovah" in any definite sense at that time.