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The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:1

Hear ye this word. To show the certainty of the judgment and his own feeling about it, the prophet utters his prophecy in the form of a dirge ( kinah, 2 Samuel 1:17 ; 2 Chronicles 35:25 ). Which I take up against you; or, which I raise over you, as if the end had come. O house of Israel; in the vocative. The Vulgate has, Domus Israel cecidit ; so the LXX . But the present Hebrew text is most suitable, making the dirge begin at Amos 5:2 . The ten tribes are addressed as in ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:1-3

Israel's elegy. It is poor work singing the things that might have been. It means sweet dreams dispelled, fair hopes blighted, and human lives in ruins. Yet such is the prophet's task in this passage—writing Israel's elegy among the graves of her dead millions. He had been denouncing nameless woes against the rebellious people, Here he changes his tone to that of a mournful spectator of accomplished ills. In imagination he throws himself forward out of the sinful present into the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:2

The virgin of Israel; i.e. the virgin Israel; so called, not as having been pure and faithful to God, but as tenderly treated and guarded from enemies (comp. Isaiah 23:12 ; Isaiah 47:1 ; Jeremiah 14:17 ). Is fallen ; she shall no more rise. This is apparently a contradiction to the promise of restoration elsewhere expressed, but is to be explained either as referring exclusively to the ten tribes, very few of whom returned from exile, and to the kingdom of Israel which was never... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:3

The vindication of the prophet's lament. The city that went out by a thousand. Septuagint and Vulgate, "from which went forth thousands," or, "a thousand;" i.e. which could send out a thousand warriors to the fight, in such a city only a tenth of the inhabitants shall remain; and this shall happen to small cities as well as great. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 5:1

In order to impress Israel the more, Amos begins this his third appeal by a “dirge” over its destruction, mourning over those who were full of joy, and thought themselves safe and enviable. As if a living man, in the midst of his pride and luxury and buoyant recklessness of heart, could see his own funeral procession, and hear, as it were, over himself the “earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.” It would give solemn thoughts, even though he should impatiently put them from him. So must... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 5:2

She hath fallen, she shall rise no more, the virgin of Israel; she hath been dashed down upon her land, there is none to raise her up - Such is the dirge, a dirge like that of David over Saul and Jonathan, over what once was lovely and mighty, but which had perished. He speaks of all as past, and that, irremediably. Israel is one of the things which had been, and which would never again be. He calls her tenderly, “the virgin of Israel,” not as having retained her purity or her fealty to God;... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 5:3

The city that went out by a thousand - (that is, probably that sent out a thousand fighting men, as the word “went out” is often used for, “went out” to fight,) “shall have” literally, “shall retain, an hundred.” She was to be decimated. Only, the tenth alone was to be reserved alive; the nine-tenths were to be destroyed. And this, alike in larger places and in the small. The city “that went forth an hundred shall retain ten.” Smaller places escape for their obscurity, the larger from their... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 5:1-3

Amos 5:1-3. Hear ye, &c. It is justly observed by Grotius, that this verse would be translated more according to the Hebrew thus; Hear ye this word, even a lamentation, which I take up over you It alludes to the lamentations made at funerals: so here the prophet bemoans the state of the kingdom of Israel as dead. The virgin of Israel Such she was when first espoused to God, a chaste virgin to a husband: she was then peculiarly beloved and delighted in, and was under the peculiar... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Amos 5:1-15

God requires repentance (5:1-15)The prophet again recalls past warnings that the people had consistently ignored. He sees vividly that the result of the people’s stubbornness will be the destruction of Israel. Samaria will be conquered and most of Israel’s army wiped out (5:1-3).What God wants is not an increase in religious ceremonies but a turning in heart and life to him. He does not want processions to religious holy places (which, in any case, will be destroyed) but the administration of... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Amos 5:1

take up = lift up as a burden. lamentation = dirge. house of Israel. See note on Amos 8:1 . read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:1-3

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 5:1

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 5:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 5:3

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 5:1-3

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Amos 5:1-15

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Amos 5:1

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