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Scofield's Reference Notes - Amos 1:2

roar "Roar," etc. Cf. Isaiah 42:13; Jeremiah 25:30-33; Hosea 11:10; Hosea 11:11; Joel 3:16. It will be found that wherever the phrase occurs it is connected with the destruction of Gentile dominion (see "Times of the Gentiles," Luke 21:24. (See Scofield "Luke 21:24- :") and the blessing of Israel in the kingdom. Without a doubt a near fulfilment upon Syria occurred 2 Kings 14:28 but the expression, "the Lord will roar," looks forward to a vaster fulfilment. See Scofield "2 Kings 14:28- :". read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Amos 1:1-15

Let's turn now to the book of Amos. In the first verse of Amos he introduces himself.These are the words of Amos, who was among the herdmen [or a shepherd] at Tekoa ( Amos 1:1 ),Now Tekoa is a little valley going down toward the Dead Sea from the area of Bethlehem. Actually, if you're standing on Herodian, that fortress that Herod built sort of east off Bethlehem, looking south, you're looking into the valley of Tekoa, the area from which Amos came. He was a herdsman, and then in chapter 7 he... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Amos 1:1-15

Amos 1:1 . The words of Amos, written with his own hand. He does not name his parents, because they were plain country people. He was himself among the herdmen of Tekoa, a small city twelve miles south of Jerusalem, 2 Chronicles 11:5-6; 2 Chronicles 20:20, and was called of God, like David from the flocks, and Elisha from the plow, to be a prophet of the Lord. This is Jehovah’s right, a right he never surrendered, either to the synagogue or the vatican at Rome. Two years before the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Amos 1:1

Amos 1:1The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa.AmosThough a native of the kingdom of Judah, Amos was sent with a message to the ten tribes. The unity of the two kingdoms was not the less real that their histories were divergent. In its origin, idea, and ultimate aim, the theocracy was one. The division which took place after the death of Solomon was a departure from the original conception, and the fruit of human sin. Yet, like many other events in which the Divine purpose seems... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Amos 1:2

Amos 1:2The Lord will roar from Zion.The stern voice of GodThe prophet not only shows here, that God was the Author of his doctrine, but at the same time he distinguishes between the true God, and the idols, which the first Jeroboam made, when by this artifice he intended to withdraw the ten tribes from the house of David, and wholly to alienate them from the tribe of Judah: it was then that he set up the calves in Dan and Bethel. The prophet now shows that all these superstitions are condemned... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Amos 1:3

Amos 1:3I will not turn away the punishment thereof.The purpose of Divine threateningsThe order of God’s threatenings seems to have been addressed to gain the hearing of the people. The punishment is first denounced upon their enemies, and that, for their sins, directly or indirectly against themselves, and God in them. Then, as to those enemies themselves, the order is not of place or time, but of their relations to God’s people. It begins with their most oppressive enemy, Syria; then... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Amos 1:1

Amo 1:1 The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. Ver. 1. The words of Amos ] Not of that Amos who was father to Isaiah (as some ancients, for want of Hebrew, mistook it), but a man of meaner rank; "rude in speech, but not in knowledge," 2 Corinthians 11:6 , tam sensuum nomine quam simplicitate verborum clarus, as Jerome... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Amos 1:2

Amo 1:2 And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither. Ver. 2. And he said, The Lord will roar ] This is spoken for the terror of the wicked, as the like was, Joel 3:16 , for the comfort of the godly. See Trapp on " Joe 3:16 " The word, as Moses, saves the Israelite, slays the Egyptian; and is as the fragrance of precious ointment, of which Oecumenius tells us that it... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Amos 1:3

Amo 1:3 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron: Ver. 3. For three transgressions of Damascus and for four ] For their seven, that is, several sins, not a few; for their many and bony provocations, for their progress in sin, without mean or measure. The Jews here note, that for three faults God will pardon a man, but let him beware of the fourth:... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Amos 1:4

Amo 1:4 But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad. Ver. 4. But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael ] Sin doth as naturally draw judgments to it as the lodestone doth iron or turpentine fire; and heinous sins, heaviest judgments, devouring plagues. Such as are the fire of war, Psalms 78:62 ; pestilence, Leviticus 26:25 ; foreign enemies, Num 21:28 Jeremiah 48:45 ; homebred conspiracies, Judges 9:15 ; Judges 9:20 ; besides the fire of... read more

Scofield's Reference Notes - Amos 1:2

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Amos 1:1-15

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Amos 1:1-15

The Biblical Illustrator - Amos 1:1

The Biblical Illustrator - Amos 1:2

The Biblical Illustrator - Amos 1:3

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Amos 1:1

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Amos 1:2

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Amos 1:3

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Amos 1:4

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