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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 4:2

Verse 2 Here Amos declares what sort of punishment awaited those fat cattle, who being well fed despised God, and were torpid in their fatness. He therefore says, that the days were nigh, when they should be taken away together with all that they had, and all their posterity, as by a hook of a fisher. But to give more effect to his combination, he says that God had sworn by his sanctuary. (24) The simple word of God ought indeed to have been sufficient: but as we do not easily embrace the... read more

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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 4:3

Verse 3 The Prophet expresses now, in different words, what would be the future calamity of that kingdom; but he still speaks of the rich and the chief men. For though he threatened also the common people and the multitude, it was not yet needful expressly to name them, inasmuch as when God fulminates against the chief men, terror ought surely to seize also the humbler classes. The Prophet then designedly directs his discourse still to the judges and the king’s counselors, Ye shall go forth at... read more

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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 4:4

Verse 4 The Prophet here again pours contempt on the perverse confidence, in which the Israelites were become hardened. They thought, indeed, that their worship was fully approved by God, when they offered Sacrifices in Bethel and Gilgal. But the Prophet here shows, that the more sedulously they labored in performing sacred things, the more grievously they offended God, and the heavier judgment they gained for themselves. “What do you obtain by wearying yourselves, when ye so strictly offer... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 4:1

The very women are leaders in dissoluteness and oppression. Ye kine of Bashan. Fat and well liking, such as the rich pastures of Bashan produce. Some have supposed that by this term are meant the luxurious nobles of Samaria, who are called "cows" as being effeminate and licentious. This is possible; but such grandees would be called rather "bulls of Bashan," and the "masters" mentioned just below signify more naturally these women's husbands than the kings. Pussy notes that the genders in... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 4:1-3

The woes of the women at ease. By a contemptuous and striking figure, the women of Samaria are styled the "kine of Bashan." They were as kine, unmindful of the past, unheeding of the future, their attention limited to the present, and living in it only the life of sense. They were as Bashan's kine, wandering in richest pastures, overfed, indulged, and pampered, and therefore waxed voluptuous and wanton. In explanation of the special reference to them, observe— I. THAT THE WOMEN ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 4:1-13

§ 2. Second address. The prophet reproves the voluptuous women of Samaria, and fortells their captivity ( Amos 4:1-3 ); with bitter irony he describes the people's devotion to idolatry ( Amos 4:4 , Amos 4:5 ): he shows how incorrigible they have proved themselves under God's chastisements ( Amos 4:6-11 ); therefore they must expect further punishment, if so be that they will learn to fear the Lord ( Amos 4:12 , Amos 4:13 ). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 4:2

By his holiness. God swears by his holiness, which cannot tolerate iniquity, and which they had profaned ( Amos 2:7 ; comp. Amos 6:8 ). That he will take you away. "That one, or they, shall take you away;" the enemy, the instrument of God's vengeance, is meant. With hooks; tsinnoth ; Septuagint, ἐν ὅπλοις : Vulgate, in contis. The translation, "with hooks," is correct, the idea being that the people shall be utterly helpless and taken for destruction, like fish caught with... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 4:3

At the breaches made in the city walls, as cattle hurry through gaps in a fence. Thus they should go forth when Samaria was taken. Every cow at that which is before her; better, each straight before her, just where the opening offered itself (comp. Joshua 6:5 , Joshua 6:20 ). The LXX . inserts γυμναί , "naked." And ye shall cast them into the palace; Septuagint, καὶ ἀποῤῥιφήσεσθε εἰς τὸ ὄρος τὸ ῥομμάν , ( ῥεμμάν , Alex.), "And ye shall be cast forth into... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 4:4

The prophet now turns to Israel, and ironically bids them exhibit their zeal for idolatry, and thus increase their guilt. Bethel ; as the chief seat of idol worship ( Amos 3:14 ). At Gilgal; rather, to Gilgal, "come ye" being repeated in thought. Gilgal was a strong position in the plain of Jordan, three miles east of Jericho, taking its name probably from the stone circles erected for purposes of worship in very early times. Joshua ( Joshua 5:9 ) gave a new meaning to the old name.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 4:4-5

Corruption and religiosity in unholy alliance. Here the prophet turns from the women of Israel, and addresses the people at large. His language is that of strong irony. What he bids the people do is the thing he knows they have been doing and will go on doing, notwithstanding the imminence of the punishment he predicts. He means, by a sarcastic coordination of their acts of hollow worship with those of their sin-stained lives, to bring them to see themselves as God and others saw them. ... read more

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 4:2

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 4:3

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 4:4

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