The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 1:13-15
The judgment on Ammon. read more
阿摩司书 1:13-15 Cunpss
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 1:13-15
The woe against Ammon: brutality in its element. There is a climax in these woes as we advance. Each seems to outdo in horror the one before. This one in which Ammon figures has circumstances of wanton atrocity and senseless savagery in it unparalleled in any other. I. UNNATURAL CONNECTIONS MAY BE EXPECTED TO BREED UNNATURAL MONSTERS . Ammon and Moab were the children of unnatural and shameful lust ( Genesis 19:30-38 ). Begotten in drunkenness, and conceived in a... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 1:13-15
Greed of territory. The history of the Ammonites is full of indications of their natural qualities and of their conduct towards Israel. They were an unprincipled arid cruel people, and were continually at war with their neighbours. Their settlement on the east of the Jordan brought them into constant conflict with the Jews, and from the Book of Deuteronomy down to that of Nehemiah references to Ammon occur from which we gather that they were an idolatrous, restless, pitiless, lustful, and... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 1:14
Rabbah , "the Great," or Rabbath-Ammon, the capital of Ammon, was situated on the southern arm of the Jabbok, and was a place of remarkable strength (see Deuteronomy 3:11 ; 2 Samuel 11:1 ; 2 Samuel 12:26 , etc.; 1 Chronicles 20:1-3 ). "For picturesqueness of situation, I know of no ruins to compare with Ammon. The most striking feature is the citadel, which formerly contained not merely the garrison, but an upper town, and covered an extensive area. The lofty plateau on which it... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 1:15
Their king; Septuagint, οἱ βασιλεῖς αὐτῆς . So Keil, Trochon, and others consider that the King of the Ammonites is meant. The Vulgate, with Aquila, Symmachus, the Syriac, and Jerome, retrains the word Melchous, or Melcham, which is the same as Molech, their god. This interpretation is favoured by passages in Jeremiah, of which one is evidently quoted from Amos, "For Malcam shall go into captivity, his priests and his princes together" ( Jeremiah 49:3 ); and the other ( Jeremiah... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 1:13
Ammon - These who receive their existence under circumstances, in any way like those of the first forefathers of Moab and Ammon, are known to be under physical as well as intellectual and moral disadvantages. Apart from the worst horrors, on the one side reason was stupefied, on the other it was active in sin. He who imprinted His laws on nature, has annexed the penalty to the infraction of those laws. It is known also how, even under the Gospel, the main character of a nation remains... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 1:14
I will kindle afire in the wall of Rabbah - Rabbah, literally, “the great,” called by Moses “Rabbah of the children of Ammon” Deuteronomy 3:11, and by later Greeks, “Rabathammana” , was a strong city with a yet stronger citadel. Ruins still exist, some of which probably date back to these times. The lower city “lay in a valley bordered on both sides by barren hills of flint,” at 12 an hour from its entrance. It lay on a stream, still called by its name Moyet or Nahr Amman, “waters” or “river of... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 1:15
And their king - The king was commonly, in those nations, the center of their energy. When “he and his princes” were “gone into captivity,” there was no one to make head against the conqueror, and renew revolts. Hence, as a first step in the subdual, the reigning head and those who shared his counsels were removed. Ammon then, savage as it was in act, was no ill-organized horde. On the contrary, barren and waste as all that country now is, it must once have been highly cultivated by a settled... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 1:13-15
Amos 1:13-15. For three transgressions of the children of Ammon The Ammonites descended from Lot: see Genesis 19:38. Their country lay to the east of Jordan, in the neighbourhood of Gilead. Because they have ripped up the women with child Hazael, king of Syria, grievously afflicted the Israelites that lay eastward of Jordan, particularly the Gileadites: see 2 Kings 10:33. The low condition to which these countries were hereby reduced, might probably encourage the Ammonites to possess... read more
Subscribe
Get Bible verse every day in your inbox
Read on Mobile
Most Searched
Group of Brands
© 2025 Bibleportal.com All rights reserved.
The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 1:13
Ammon was connected with Israel as being sprung from Lot, and together with Moab, which had the same origin, retained the stamp of its incestuous birth in habits, character, and worship ( Genesis 19:30 , etc.). The Ammonites seem to have been a predatory and roving nation, though the abundance of rains in the district shows that they possessed fixed abodes; but Rabbah was the only city of importance in their territory ( 2 Samuel 11:1 ). Their hostility to Israel was first shown in their... read more