아모스 4:6-7 KRV

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 4:6-11

National calamities are Divine chastisements. Graphic and morally impressive is the catalogue of Divine judgments which the inspired prophet here draws up and puts upon record for the admonition of future ages. I. OF WHAT THESE CALAMITIES CONSIST . They are thus enumerated in the several verses. 1 . Famine. 2 . Drought. 3 . Blight. 4 . Pestilence. 5 . War. 6 . Destruction. Alas! from the beginnings of human history such have been the sad and weary... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 4:6-11

God's government of the world a chastising government. "And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places" etc. In these verses the Almighty describes the various corrective measures which he had employed for effecting a moral reformation in the character of the Israelites. At the end of each chastising measure which he describes, he marks their obstinate impenitence with the expression, "Yet have ye not returned unto me." As if he had... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 4:6-13

Judgment the Divine retort to human sin. This is the sad history of God's vain contendings with an incorrigible nation. In Amos 3:1-15 . is an account of the mercies by which he at first had tried to draw them. All that had failed utterly. They met privilege with inappreciation, friendship with rebuff, and favour with incredible disregard. Then he had changed his tactics. They would not be drawn, perhaps they might be driven. The experiment was worth the making, and the record of it is... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 4:7

The second punishment is drought, as predicted (Le 26:19, etc.; Deuteronomy 28:23 ). When there were yet three months to the harvest, and when rain was most necessary to swell the grain. The season meant is in February and March, when what was called "the latter rain" fell. In the south of Palestine the harvest commenced at the end of April, but in the northern parts it was some weeks later, so that it might be said in round numbers that it took place three months after the latter rain. I... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 4:6

And I, I too have given you - Such had been their gifts to God, worthless, because destitute of that which alone God requires of His creatures, a loving, simple, single-hearted, loyal obedience. So then God had but one gift which He could bestow, one only out of the rich storehouse of His mercies, since all besides were abused - chastisement. Yet this too is a great gift of God, a pledge of His love, who willed not that they should perish; an earnest of greater favors, had they used it. It is a... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 4:7

And I, I too have withholden the rain - Jerome, dwelling in Palestine, says, that “this rain, when “three months yet remained until harvest,” was the “latter rain,” of the very greatest necessity for the fields of Palestine and the thirsty ground, lest, when the blade is swelling into the crop, and gendering the wheat, it should dry up through lack of moisture. The time intended is the spring, at the end of April, whence, to the wheat-harvest, there remain three months, May, June, July.” “God... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 4:6-8

Amos 4:6-8. And I also have given you Or, for this cause I have given you, cleanness of teeth An expression signifying a scarcity of food, or a famine. The famine which we read of 2 Kings 8:1, seems to be that which is here referred to. Yet have ye not returned unto me Nevertheless ye have not been brought to a sense of your sins, to any sorrow for them, or to any sincere purpose of amendment. Also I have withholden the rain, when there were yet three months to the harvest At a season... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Amos 4:4-13

Religion without God (4:4-13)In words of cutting irony, Amos calls the people to the places of worship, encouraging them to continue their zealous but unspiritual religious exercises. The more they do so, the more they will increase their sin. They are corrupt, immoral, ungodly, greedy, lawless and violent, yet they love to make a show of their religious zeal. Amos mocks them by urging them to offer their sacrifices daily (normally, private citizens did this yearly), to offer their tithes every... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Amos 4:6

cleanness of teeth. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6 , for famine. yet have ye not . &c. Note the Structure above, showing the Figure fo Speech Amoeboeon ( App-6 ). Compare Isaiah 26:11 .Jeremiah 5:3 .Haggai 2:12 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Amos 4:7

have withholden , &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:22-24 ). piece = portion of land. it. Ginsburg thinks this should be "I". read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 4:6-11

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 4:6-11

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 4:6-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 4:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 4:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 4:7

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 4:6-8

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Amos 4:4-13

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Amos 4:6

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Amos 4:7

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