Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:7
Ye who turn judgment to wormwood - Who pervert judgment; causing him who obtains his suit to mourn sorely over the expenses he has incurred in gaining his right. read more
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Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:8
That maketh the seven stars and Orion - Or, Hyades and Arcturus, Kimah and Kesil. See my notes on Job 9:9 ; Job 38:32 , where the subject of this verse is largely considered. Turneth the shadow of death into the morning - Who makes day and night, light and darkness. Calleth for the waters of the sea - Raising them up by evaporation, and collecting them into clouds. And poureth them out - Causing them to drop down in showers upon the face of the earth. Who has done this?... read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:9
That strengtheneth the spoiled - Who takes the part of the poor and oppressed against the oppressor; and, in the course of his providence, sets up the former, and depresses the latter. read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:10
They hate him that rebuketh in the gate - They cannot bear an upright magistrate, and will not have righteous laws executed. read more
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:4
Verse 4 Amos here again exhorts the Israelites to repentance; and it was an address common to all, though the greater part, as we have said, were altogether past recovery; but it was necessary, as long as they continued a chosen people, to call them to repentance; for they had not been as yet abdicated. We further know, that the Prophets preached in order to invite some to God, and to render others inexcusable. With regard to the end and design of public teaching, it is, that all should in... read more
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:5
Verse 5 But Amos afterwards defines the character of true repentance, when he says, Seek not Bethel, go not to Gilgal, pass not over to Beersheba Some think that the Prophet here repudiates all the disguises, which are usually pretended by hypocrites. We indeed know that when God calls such men to himself, that they seek indirect and tortuous courses; for none of them return sincerely and willingly to God. Men indeed see that they are justly reproved for having departed from God: but when they... read more
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:6
Verse 6 He then adds, Seek Jehovah, and ye shall live This repetition is not superfluous: the Prophet confirms what I have already stated, that such was the opposition between the true and legitimate worship of God, and idolatry and superstition, that the people of Israel, as long as they retained their corruptions, proved that they had nothing to do with God, whatever they may have pretended with their mouths and by their ceremonies. Seek God, he says, and ye shall live; and this repetition... read more
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:7
Verse 7 Here the Prophet, after having inveighed against superstitions, comes to the second table of the law. The Prophets are sometimes wont to shake off self-complacencies from hypocrites, when they spread before God their external veils, by saying that all their ceremonies are useless, except accompanied with integrity of heart: but in this place the Prophet expressly condemns in the Israelites two things; that is, that they had corrupted the true worship of God, departed from the doctrine... read more
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:8
Verse 8 Some interpreters connect this verse with the former, and think that what the Prophet had said before is here explained; but they are greatly mistaken, and misrepresent the meaning of the Prophet. We have indeed said, that the Prophet shows in that verse that the Israelites were not only perfidious and covenant-breakers with regard to God, having fallen away from his pure worship, but that they also acted iniquitously and dishonestly towards men: but these interpreters think that God... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:6
Seek the Lord, and ye shall live - Repeated from Amos 5:4 . In the house of Joseph - The Israelites of the ten tribes, of whom Ephraim and Manasseh, sons of Joseph, were the chief. read more