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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 1:3-15

Seven Judgments Against The Neighbouring Nations, Including Judah (Amos 1:3 to Amos 2:5 ). The announcing of YHWH’s judgments on seven nations (including Judah) can be looked at in two ways. First it was an assurance to Israel that YHWH was watching over their basic interests and had observed the behaviour of the nations round about. By this he was gaining their interest. But even more importantly, as the inclusion of Judah brings out, Amos was cleverly gaining Israel’s consent to his... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 1:1-2

Amos 1:1 f. Superscription and Motto.— In the present form of the book we find prefixed to the oracles, probably by a post-exilic editor, some brief particulars as to the person of the prophet, the date of his ministry, and the key-note of his message. The prophet belonged to the Southern Kingdom. He was one of the shepherds of Tekoa (mod. Tekü‘ a), a high-lying town, 6 miles S. of Bethlehem (p. 31)— certain shepherds ( nô kל dî m) who bred or tended a peculiar kind of sheep having short... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 1:3-5

Amos 1:3-Deuteronomy : . Damascus.— It is Yahweh who speaks by the mouth of the prophets. The mention of Damascus, the capital of the Aramaean or Syrian kingdom, would at once arrest attention, for until recently Israel had been engaged in a severe struggle (p. 69) with this kingdom (Damascus stands here for the whole region). Damascus, then, had committed sins (lit. rebellions) not once or twice or thrice, but again and again (three, yea, four). It might look as though an earlier threat of... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Amos 1:1

The words: the Holy Ghost doth in this expression comprehensively take in all the sermons, visions, and predictions which Amos preached and published; all the exhortations to duty, the menaces against sins, the warnings of dangers coming, and the promises of mercy to them that hear and obey his words: see Haggai 1:12. And so what Jeremiah preached to his auditors are the words of Jeremiah, Amos 1:1; and the instructions and counsel of Solomon are the words of the Preacher, Ecclesiastes 1:1.... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Amos 1:2

He; Amos. The Lord; the Almighty and Eternal, whom you of the ten tribes have forsaken, and thereby have provoked to displeasure. Will roar: the prophet, alluding to what was dreadful, dangerous, and most rousing to shepherds, the roaring of a hungry lion that comes out of his den for prey, doth express the danger of Israel, and would awaken them to a sense of it, that they might prevent it by repentance, before the Lord tears them in pieces as a lion tears his prey. From Zion; either the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Amos 1:3

Thus saith the Lord; Amos speaks not by conjecture, or of his own head, but as he comes in the name of the Lord, so he assures us of it by this most solemn attestation. Three transgressions: this certain number is put for an uncertain; three, i.e. many, especially when, as here, it is joined with four; their transgressions are so multiplied, grown to such height and number. Damascus was the chief city of the kingdom of Syria, and very ancient; Abraham’s steward was of this city. It was... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Amos 1:4

I the Lord, avenger of mine oppressed Israel, Jehovah, as Amos 1:3. A fire; either literally understood, or figuratively, famine, pestilence, wars foreign or intestine, effects of God’s great but just displeasure, which destroys all like fire. The house of Hazael; the family, or the material house in which he dwelt, or both; Hazael’s stately dwelling-place should be consumed by fire, and his whole family be cut off. Devour; eat up, so as to leave nothing remaining of either. The palaces; the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Amos 1:5

I, the mighty God, as Amos 1:4, will break, weaken and shake into pieces, the bar; literally, the bar with which the city gates were shut, and both fastened and strengthened, Judges 16:3; Nehemiah 7:3; Psalms 107:16. Metaphorically it contains all the munitions, fortresses, and strength of a place or people: so here. Damascus: see Amos 1:3. It is put here, as before, for the whole kingdom, of which it was the metropolis. Cut off, by the judgments of war, pestilence, famine, or diseases, all... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Amos 1:1-2

CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos] Different from the father of Isaiah, Amots. Tek.] 2 Chronicles 20:20 Earth.] 2 Chronicles 26:16. A premonitory sign in nature of revolutions in guilty kingdoms (Matthew 24:7-8). Amos 1:2. Roar] Cf. Joel 3:16; Jeremiah 25:30. God will spread terror like beasts of prey (Psalms 18:3). Zion] Seat of government from whence they revolted. Hab.] Poetical for inhabitants. Carmel] whose summit abounded in olives and rich pastures; owing to its nearness to the sea, renewed its... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Amos 1:3-5

CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 1:3. Three] The numbers serve to denote the multiplicity of sins, “ungodliness in its worst form” [Luther]. Turn] Reverse, to make a thing go back, to withdraw it (Numbers 23:20; Isaiah 43:13). Amos 1:4. A fire] Material, as cities burned in war (Psalms 78:63); or an emblem of God’s judgments. Amos 1:5. Bar] of its gates (Jeremiah 51:30). Inhab.] Subject. Him that holdeth] Ruler. Saith] Strengthens the threat, which was fulfilled when the Assyrian king conquered Damascus... read more

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 1:3-15

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 1:1-2

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 1:3-5

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Amos 1:1

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Amos 1:2

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Amos 1:3

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Amos 1:4

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Amos 1:5

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Amos 1:1-2

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Amos 1:3-5

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