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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

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Amos 4:8

"So two or three cities wandered unto one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah."The efforts of scholars to reduce this chapter to the status of a poem are frustrated by Amos' inclusion here of material which defies such a classification; and, as should be expected, the liberal critics cry, "Interpolation!"[24] However, as many scholars have testified, the Hebrew text of Amos is one of the best preserved of all Old Testament texts; and... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Amos 4:7-8

Amos 4:7-8. And also I have withholden the rain— These verses apparently refer to the withholding of those rains which filled their reservoirs of water for drinking; and our translators should have used the term dried up, as they did in translating the same word, Job 14:11 instead of withered. It is not to be supposed that their wheat harvest was delayed to the close of July. At present at Aleppo, barley harvest commences about the beginning of May, and the wheat harvest, as well as that, is... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Amos 4:8

8. three cities wandered—that is, the inhabitants of three cities (compare :-). GROTIUS explains this verse and Amos 4:7, "The rain fell on neighboring countries, but not on Israel, which marked the drought to be, not accidental, but the special judgment of God." The Israelites were obliged to leave their cities and homes to seek water at a distance [CALVIN]. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Amos 4:6-11

Refusal to repent 4:6-11 read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Amos 4:7-8

He had also sent drought when the people needed rain the most, three months before their harvest. He had let rain fall on one town but not another resulting in only spotty productivity (cf. 1 Kings 8:35). This too should have moved them to repent. Drought was also a punishment for covenant unfaithfulness (Leviticus 26:19; Deuteronomy 28:22-24; Deuteronomy 28:48). read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 4:1-13

The Second Address1-3. The heartless luxury of the rich women. 4, 5. The elaborate sacrifices and pilgrimages. 6-12. The failure of God’s chastisements to produce amendment.1. These pampered women are compared to cows grown fat through feeding in the rich pastures of Bashan (Numbers 32:1-5; Deuteronomy 32:14; Micah 7:14).Masters] RV ’lords,’ i.e. husbands (1 Peter 3:6). 2. He] RV ’they,’ i.e. the conquerors.Your posterity] RV ’your residue.’ Those farthest removed from danger will be dragged... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Amos 4:7-8

(7, 8) Three months to the harvest.—The withdrawal of rain at this period (February and March) is at the present day most calamitous to the crops in Palestine.Caused it to rain . . .—The tenses should be regarded as expressing repetition of the act, and might be, with advantage, rendered as present cause it to rain . . . is rained upon, &c. The inhabitants of the most suffering districts wander, distracted and weary, to a more favoured city, and find no sufficiency. Comp. the graphic... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Amos 4:4-13

1. FOR WORSHIP, CHASTISEMENTAmos 4:4-13In chapter 2 Amos contrasted the popular conception of religion as worship with God’s-conception of it as history. He placed a picture of the sanctuary, hot with religious zeal, but hot too with passion and the fumes of wine, side by side with a great prospect of the national history: God’s guidance of Israel from Egypt onwards. That is, as we said at the time, ‘he placed an indoors picture of religion side by side with an open-air one. He repeats that... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Amos 4:6-13

COMMON SENSE AND THE REIGN OF LAWAmos 3:3-8; Amos 4:6-13; Amos 5:8-9; Amos 6:12; Amos 8:8; Amos 9:5; Amos 8:4-6FOOLS, when they face facts, which is seldom, face them one by one, and, as a consequence, either in ignorant contempt or in panic. With this inordinate folly Amos charged the religion of his day. The superstitious people, careful of every point of ritual and very greedy of omens, would not ponder real facts nor set cause-to effect. Amos recalled them to common life. "Does a bird fall... read more

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Amos 4:4-13

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Amos 4:8

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Amos 4:7-8

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Amos 4:8

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Amos 4:6-11

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Amos 4:7-8

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 4:1-13

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Amos 4:7-8

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Amos 4:4-13

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Amos 4:6-13

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