阿摩司书 6:2 RCUVSS

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Amos 6:1-14

Pride and its punishment (6:1-14)Israel’s leaders deceive themselves that the nation is secure. They live prosperously and see no possibility of any immediate crisis. Amos reminds them that other nations were stronger than Israel and other cities more prosperous than Samaria, but they still fell to enemy armies (6:1-3). These upper class people live in luxury, without any concern for the injustice that is ruining the nation. When Israel is conquered, they will be in the first group taken into... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Amos 6:2

Pass = Pass over: i. e, the Euphrates. Compare Jeremiah 2:10 . unto Calneh. The sequence of these cities is logical rather than geographical. Calneh. On the Tigris. Built by Nimrod (Genesis 10:10 ). Called Calno (Isaiah 10:9 ); Canneh (Ezekiel 27:23 ). see = consider [its fate]. So in the next two clauses. Hamath. On the north. Now called Hama , on the Orontes, north of Damascus. Reference to Pent (Genesis 10:18 . Numbers 34:7 , Numbers 34:8 ) Compare Amos 6:14 App-92 Gath. Now Tell es... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Amos 6:2

"Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines: are they better than these kingdoms? or is their border greater than your border?"This verse again follows a pattern already observed in Amos' words, that of putting words or arguments into the mouths of his hearers in order to prove his point, much as the apostle Paul used the diatribe in the Book of Romans. Some scholars have mistakenly tried to take these words as a threat from... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Amos 6:2

Amos 6:2. Be they better than these kingdoms?— Are these kingdoms better than yours? Houbigant. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Amos 6:2

2. Calneh—on the east bank of the Tigris. Once powerful, but recently subjugated by Assyria ( :-; about 794 B.C.). Hameth—subjugated by Jeroboam II (2 Kings 14:25). Also by Assyria subsequently (2 Kings 14:25- :). Compare Amos 6:14. Gath—subjugated by Uzziah (2 Chronicles 26:6). be they better—no. Their so recent subjugation renders it needless for Me to tell you they are not. And yet they once were; still they could not defend themselves against the enemy. How vain, then, your secure... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Amos 6:1-3

The boastful complacency of Israel’s leaders 6:1-3 read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Amos 6:2

Amos challenged these proud leaders to visit other cities that had once considered themselves great. Calneh (or Calno, Isaiah 10:9) and Hamath were city-states in northern Aramea. Shalmaneser III of Assyria had overrun them in 854-846 B.C., but Israel controlled them in Amos’ day. Gath had been a notable city in Philistia, but it had fallen before King Hazael of Aram in 815 B.C. and again to King Uzziah of Judah in 760 B.C. Presently Judah controlled it. Samaria was no better than those... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 6:1-14

The Fourth Address1-3. False security of Judah and Israel. 4-6. Carelessness and luxury. 7-11. Captivity, siege, death, ruin. 12, 13. Preposterous errors. 14. The coming of the avenger.1, 2. Render, ’Woe to the easy-going in Zion and to the secure in the mountain of Samaria! Make the round of the foremost nations and come to them, O house of Israel. Pass over to Calneh and see, and from thence go to Hamath Rabbah: then, etc. Are you better than these kingdoms? or is your border,’ etc., that you... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Amos 6:2

(2) The meaning is obscure. Kalneh, the Kalno of Isaiah 10:9, the Assyrian Kulunu (comp. Genesis 10:10), is here probably mentioned first because it is most easterly. It is identified by Kiepert with Holwân, but its position is uncertain, though generally regarded as lying in the neighbourhood of the Greek Ctesiphon, on the Tigris. Hamath is the ancient Hittite city in the valley of the Orontes, and it had felt the strong hand of Jeroboam II. (2 Kings 14:28). We have no reason for believing... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Amos 6:1-14

Amos 6:1 There is a saying which I have heard attributed to Mr. Carlyle about Socrates, a very happy saying, whether it is really Mr. Carlyle's or not which excellently marks the essential point in which Hebraism differs from Hellenism. 'Socrates,' this saying goes, 'is terribly at ease in Zion'. Hebraism and here is the source of its wonderful strength has always been serenely preoccupied with an awful sense of the impossibility of being at ease in Zion.... It is all very well to talk of... read more