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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Amos 5:26

But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Mo ,.... The god of the Ammonites; See Gill on Amos 1:13 ; and See Gill on Jeremiah 7:31 ; called theirs, because they also worshipped it, and caused their seed to pass through the fire to it; and which was carried by them in a shrine, or portable tent or chapel. Or it may be rendered, "but ye have borne Siccuth your king" F16 סכות מלככם "Siccuth regem vestrum", Munster, Montanus, Vatablus, Calvin, Mercerus. ; and so Siccuth may be taken... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Amos 5:27

Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus ,.... The chief city of Syria; and which, as Aben Ezra says, lay to the east of the land of Israel, and was a very strong and fortified place: and Syria being in alliance with Israel, the Israelites might think of fleeing thither for refuge, in the time of their distress; but they are here told that they should be taken captive, and be carried to places far more remote than that: Stephen says, "beyond Babylon"; as they were, for... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:18

Wo unto you that desire the day of the Lord - The prophet had often denounced the coming of God's day, that is, of a time of judgment; and the unbelievers had said, "Let his day come, that we may see it." Now the prophet tells them that that day would be to them darkness - calamity, and not light - not prosperity. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:19

As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him - They shall go from one evil to another. He who escapes from the lion's mouth shall fall into the bear's paws: - Incidit in Scyllam, cupiens vitare Charybdim . The Israelites, under their king Menahem, wishing to avoid a civil war, called in Pul, king of Assyria, to help them. This led to a series of evils inflicted by the Syrian and Assyrian kings, till at last Israel was ravaged by Shalmaneser, and carried into captivity. Thus, in... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:21

I hate, I despise your feast days - I abominate those sacrificial festivals where there is no piety, and I despise them because they pretend to be what they are not. This may refer to the three annual festivals which were still observed in a certain way among the Israelites. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:22

The peace-offerings of your fat beasts - מריאיכם merieychem probably means buffaloes; and so Bochart. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:23

The noise of thy songs - the melody of thy viols - They had both vocal and instrumental music in those sacrificial festivals; and God hated the noise of the one and shut his ears against the melody of the other. In the first there was nothing but noise, because their hearts were not right with God; and in the latter there could be nothing but ( זמרת zimrath ) cutting and scraping, because there was no heart - no religious sense in the thing, and nearly as little in them that used it. See... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:24

Let judgment run down - Let the execution of justice be everywhere like the showers that fall upon the land to render it fertile; and let righteousness in heart and life be like a mighty river, or the Jordan, that shall wind its course through the whole nation, and carry every abomination into the Dead Sea. Let justice and righteousness prevail everywhere, and sweep their contraries out of the land. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:25

Have ye offered unto me sacrifices - Some have been led to think that "during the forty years which the Israelites spent in the wilderness, between Egypt and the promised land, they did not offer any sacrifices, as in their circumstances it was impossible; they offered none because they had none." But such people must have forgotten that when the covenant was made at Sinai, there were burnt-offerings and peace-offerings of oxen sacrificed to the Lord, Exodus 24:5 ; and at the setting up of... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:26

But ye have borne - The preceding verse spoke of their fathers; the present verse speaks of the Israelites then existing, who were so grievously addicted to idolatry, that they not only worshipped at stated public places the idols set up by public authority, but they carried their gods about with them everywhere. The tabernacle of your Moloch - Probably a small portable shrine, with an image of their god in it, such as Moloch; and the star or representative of their god Chiun. For an... read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Amos 5:26

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Amos 5:27

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:18

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:19

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:21

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:22

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:23

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:24

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:25

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:26

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