The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:10-12
The prophet gives further instances of the people's corruption. read more
アモス書 5:12-14 Jc
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:12
Your punishment is richly deserved, for "I know how many are your transgressions and how mighty are your sins," especially, as it follows, your sins of oppression and injustice. They afflict the just. The construction is continuous: "afflicters of the just." Hostes justi (Vulgate); καταπατοῦντες δίκαιον , "trampling down the just"; comp. Wis. 2:12-15. They take a bribe. The translation of kopher as "bribe" is justified, perhaps, by 1 Samuel 12:3 ; but the word is elsewhere used... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:13
Even while he speaks, the prophet feels that his reproof is useless (comp. Jeremiah 7:27 , etc.; Hosea 4:1 , Hosea 4:17 ). In that time; at such a time as this, the man who acts wisely holds his peace, because it is a time of moral corruption and of personal danger. But the prophet cannot restrain his call (comp. Ezekiel 33:3 , etc.). In Micah 2:3 the "evil time" is one of calamity. read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:13
A time to be silent. "Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time." These words describe an evil time, and specify one of its most evil features. It is a time of culminating wickedness, of imminent destruction, and, as related to both, of Divine non-intervention. "There is a time to keep silence" ( Ecclesiastes 3:7 ) as well as "a time to speak." And that time, as pointed out by characteristic features, was at hand in this case. Israel, which in vain had... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:14
He repeats his loving summons to repentance, as in Amos 5:4 , Amos 5:6 , showing that their only hope of safety lay in amendment of life (comp Zephaniah 2:3 ). Seek good, and not evil. Use that diligence and zeal in pursuing what is good which you have hitherto shown in the pursuit of evil. The Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken; or, as ye say. The Israelites fancied that, owing to their covenant relation to God, he would be always with them and ready to... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:14
Religion. "Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken." From these words two things may be inferred concerning religion. I. IT IMPLIES A SPECIFIC PURSUIT . "Seek good, and not evil." Good and evil are both in the world; they work in all human souls; they explain all history. 1 . They imply a standard of right. By what do we determine the good and evil in human life? The revealed will of God. What... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:14-15
The nation with which God will dwell. The opening words of this presage imply a history. Israel "not only did evil, but they sought it out and the occasions of it" (Pusey). They gave evil their special attention, never failing to do it when they had opportunity, and seeking opportunities when none presented themselves. In fact, they did it with an amount of method and pains which they are now called upon to direct into a new channel, and apply to the doing of good. I. THE PRESENCE ... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:14-15
The great alternative. The coincidence between religion and morality is brought very strikingly before us in such passages as these. How different are such appeals as these, made by the prophet in the name of the Lord, from the requirements of merely formal religion! The highest conception of good is revealed, the noblest standard of right is exhibited; and all the sanctions furnished by the authority and the loving kindness of the Eternal are brought to bear upon human nature to induce to... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 5:12
For I know - Literally, “I have known.” They thought that God did not know, because He did not avenge; as the Psalmist says, “Thy judgments are far above out of his sight” Psalms 10:5. People who do not act with the thought of God, cease to know Him, and forget that He knows them. “Your manifold transgressions;” literally, “many are your transgressions and mighty your sins.” Their deeds, they knew, were mighty, strong, vigorous, decided. God says, that their “sins” were so, not many and great... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:7-13
The contrast presaging the conflict. Judgment is coming. Warning has been given. Duty, and the prevailing derelictions of it, have been pointed out. Here God's perfections and Israel's iniquities are set in juxtaposition, and the co]location is suggestive. Such incompatibility must lead to collision. It is by God's character and ours that our mutual relations and attitudes are shaped. We see here— I. GOD REVEALING HIMSELF . ( Amos 5:8 , Amos 5:9 .) God's work is an important... read more