You who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, 'Haven't we taken for ourselves horns by our own strength?'
"The verse is a sarcastic allusion to the conquests of Jeroboam II in Transjordan, which are narrated in  2 Kings 14:25, two towns that he captured being mentioned here."[34]  Amos here made a play upon the meaning of the names of the towns, Lodebar, for example, meaning "a thing of naught."  Nevertheless, the people were very arrogant and boastful about their successes. `The reiterated emphasis on `our ... we ... ourselves' mocks the boasting assessment which the people made of Jeroboam's successes.'"[35]