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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 2:5

Verse 5 We now see what sort of crime is that of which the Prophet speaks. At last a threatening follows, “The Lord saith, Fire will I send on Judah, which shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.’ But all this we have already explained. Let us now proceed — read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 2:6

Verse 6 The Prophet here assails the Israelites, to whom he had been sent, as we have said at the beginning. He now omits every reference to other nations; for his business was with the Israelites to whom he was especially appointed a teacher. But he wished to set before them, as in various mirrors, the judgment of God, which awaited them, that he might the more effectually awaken them: and he wished also to exhibit in the Jews themselves an example of the extreme vengeance of God, though there... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 2:7

Verse 7 Here Amos charges them first with insatiable avarice; they panted for the heads of the poor on the dust of the earth. This place is in my judgment not well understood. שאף, shaph, means to pant and to breathe, and is taken often metaphorically as signifying to desire: hence some render the words, “They desire the heads of the poor to be in the dust of the earth;” that is, they are anxious to see the innocent cast down and prostrate on the ground. But there is no need of many words to... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 2:8

Verse 8 Here the Prophet again inveighs against the people’s avariciousness, and addresses his discourse especially to the chief men; for what he mentions could not have been done by the common people, as the lower and humbler classes could not make feasts by means of spoils gained by judicial proceedings. The Prophet then condemns here, no doubt, the luxury and rapacity of men in high stations. They lie down, he says, on pledged clothes nigh every altar. God had forbidden, in his law, to take... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 2:4

They have despised the Law of the Lord. The other nations are denounced for their offences against God's people; Judah is sentenced for her offences against God himself. The former likewise had offended against the law of conscience, natural religion; the latter against the written Law, revealed religion. By thus denouncing Judah, Amos shows his perfect impartiality. The Law, Torah, is the general name for the whole body of precepts and commandments, chuqqim, moral and ceremonial. Their... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 2:4

Heredity and the idol taint. "And their lies led them astray, after which their fathers walked." Idolatry was Israel's besetting sin. Within two months of their leaving Egypt they fell into it, and, in spite of Divine deterrent measures, they returned to it persistently for nine hundred years. They took to idol worship, in fact, as "to the manner born" And that the sin was constitutional, and in the grain, is evident from the fact that there was no corresponding secession from idol worship... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 2:4

The privileged but faithless. The preceding denunciations refer to the idolatrous nations by whom the chosen people were surrounded. But the impartiality of the prophet is apparent from his condemnation of his own kindred. Amos came from Tekoah, a city of Judah, and, instructed by the righteous Ruler of all, he did not spare his own tribe. I. THE TRANSGRESSION OF JUDAH WAS AGGRAVATED BY THEIR POSSESSION AND THEIR NEGLECT OF THE DIVINE LAW . From the days... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 2:4-5

§ 2. Judah is summoned to judgment, the prophet thus passing from alien nations, through the most favoured people, to Israel, the subject of his prophecy. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 2:4-5

The woe against Judah. In the form of this woe, as compared with those before, is nothing to indicate the difference of underlying principles which it involves. A woe on a Hebrew and a heathen have little in common but the inevitable connection between punishment and sin. I. THE SINS FOR WHICH GOD VISITS RESPECTIVELY THOSE WHO KNOW HIM AND THOSE WHO KNOW HIM NOT ARE VERY DIFFERENT . The six woes against the heathen are fathered exclusively on... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 2:5

The destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans is here briefly foretold ( Jeremiah 17:27 ; Hosea 8:14 ; 2 Kings 25:9 , 2 Kings 25:10 ). read more

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 2:5

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 2:6

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 2:7

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 2:8

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 2:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 2:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 2:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 2:4-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 2:4-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 2:5

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