Amos 4:10

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 4:10-11

Amos 4:10-11. I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt I have sent such pestilence among you as I formerly sent upon Egypt: Or, such as has frequently taken place in Egypt. “The unwholesome effluvia, on the subsiding of the Nile, caused some peculiarly malignant diseases in this country.” Newcome. Maillet also tells us, (Lamentations 1:0 . page 14,) that “the air is bad in those parts, where, when the inundations of the Nile have been very great, this river, in... 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 4:10

I have sent, &c. Ref to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:25 .Deuteronomy 28:21 , Deuteronomy 28:27 , Deuteronomy 28:60 ). App-92 . the pestilence = a pestilence. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), App-6 , for the death resulting from it. Septuagint renders it "death". See note on Amos 6:10 . after the manner, &c. Reference to Pentateuch, (Exodus 9:3 , Exodus 9:6 ; Exodus 12:29 . Deuteronomy 28:27 ). App-92 . Compare Psalms 78:50 . Isaiah 10:24 , Isaiah 10:26 . taken. away ,... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Amos 4:10

"I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have carried away your horses; and I have made the stench of your camp to come up even into your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah." Two more disasters are recounted here, (1) pestilence, and (2) military disaster. The New English Bible renders "plagues of Egypt" instead of "pestilence after the manner of Egypt"; but despite this there remains some doubt of... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Amos 4:10

10. pestilence after the manner of Egypt—such as I formerly sent on the Egyptians (Exodus 9:3; Exodus 9:8; Exodus 12:29; Deuteronomy 28:27; Deuteronomy 28:60). Compare the same phrase, Deuteronomy 28:60- :. have taken away your horses—literally, "accompanied with the captivity of your horses"; I have given up your young men to be slain, and their horses to be taken by the foe (compare Deuteronomy 28:60- :). stink of your camps—that is, of your slain men (compare Isaiah 34:3; Joel 2:20). to come... 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 4:10

Wars had brought various plagues on the Israelites, and many of their soldiers had died (cf. 1 Kings 8:33; 1 Kings 8:37). The plagues on the Israelites should have made them conclude that God was now judging them. God had plagued His people as He formerly had plagued the Egyptians. The stench of dead bodies should have led the people to repent, but it did not (cf. Leviticus 26:16-17; Leviticus 26:25; Leviticus 26:31-39; Deuteronomy 28:21-22; Deuteronomy 28:25-27; Deuteronomy 28:35; Deuteronomy... 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 4:10

(10) With the captivity of your horses.—This, the marginal reading, is more exact. Egypt is the birthplace of the plague or black death, and the circumstances augmenting its horror are here terribly portrayed. G. Baur thinks, that since the drought is mentioned after the famine as its true cause, so here the prophet explains the cause of the pestilence, or the way in which it would be brought about, viz., by the hosts of slaughtered warriors scattered over the camp. 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

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