Amos 3:9-15 NIV

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 3:11

An adversary, round about the land - Ye shall not be able to escape, wherever ye turn, ye shall meet a foe. read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 3:12

As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion - Scarcely any of you shall escape; and those that do shall do so with extreme difficulty, just as a shepherd, of a whole sheep carried away by a lion, can recover no more than two of its legs, or a piece of its ear, just enough to prove by the marks on those parts, that they belonged to a sheep which was his own. So shall the children of Israel be taken out - Those of them that escape these judgments shall escape with as great... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 3:13

Hear ye - This is an address to the prophet. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 3:14

In the day that I shall visit - When Josiah made a reformation in the land he destroyed idolatry, pulled down the temples and altars that had been consecrated to idol worship, and even burnt the bones of the priests of Baal and the golden calves upon their own altars. See 2 Kings 23:15 , 2 Kings 23:16 , etc. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 3:15

I will smite the winter house with the summer house - I will not only destroy the poor habitations and villages in the country, but I will destroy those of the nobility and gentry as well as the lofty palaces in the fortified cities in which they dwell in the winter season, as those light and elegant seats in which they spend the summer season. Dr. Shaw observes that "the hills and valleys round about Algiers are all over beautified with gardens and country seats, whither the inhabitants of... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 3:9

Verse 9 Amos begins here to set judges over the Israelites; for they would not patiently submit to God’s judgment: and he constitutes and sets over them as judges the Egyptians and Idumeans. This prophecy no doubt increasingly exasperated the minds of the people, who were already very refractory and rebellious; but yet this was necessary. God, indeed, had cited them to his tribunal, as long as a hope of reconciliation remained: when they became angry on account of God’s threatening, clamored... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 3:10

Verse 10 In this verse he confirms what I have already said of oppressions: he says that they despised every thing right. But not to know this lessens not their guilt, as though they ignorantly offended; but the Prophet means, on the contrary, that they had cast away far from them everything that was just and allowed themselves all liberty in sinning, without any discrimination, without any shame; as though he said, “They are brute animals, who are void of all judgments of all reason, and of... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 3:11

Verse 11 The Prophet here announces the punishment God would inflict on the Israelites. An enemy, he says, and indeed one around you, etc. Some think צר, tsar, to be a verb in the imperative mood; but this cannot be maintained. But Amos, here declares that an enemy was near the Israelites, who would besiege them on every side. The ungodly are ever wont to seek escapes, and if they see the smallest hole, they think that they can escape. Strange is the presumption of men with regard to God: when... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 3:12

Verse 12 In the next verse he leaves some hope, though this is not avowedly done. For when he says that some would be saved, as when a shepherd snatches from the jaws of a lion the ear of a sheep or two legs, it is not the Prophet’s design to mitigate the severe judgment of which he had before spoken; but shows, on the contrary, that when any should be saved, it would not be because the people would defend themselves, or were able to resist; but that it would be as when a trembling shepherd... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 3:14

Verse 14 Amos, I have no doubt, added this passage, to show that the superstitions, in which he knew the Israelites falsely trusted, would be so far from being of any help to them, that they would, on the contrary, lead them to ruin, because the people were by them provoking God’s wrath the more against themselves. When the Israelites heard that God was offended with them, they looked on their sacrifices and other superstitions, as their shield and cover: for thus do hypocrites mock God. But we... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 3:11

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 3:12

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 3:13

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 3:14

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 3:15

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 3:9

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 3:10

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 3:11

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 3:12

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 3:14

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