Amos 4:10-11 NIV

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 4:10

The fourth visitation is pestilence and the sword (Le 26:25; Deuteronomy 28:60 ). After the manner of Egypt. In the manner in which Egypt is stricken (comp. Isaiah 10:24 , Isaiah 10:26 ; Ezekiel 20:30 ). There is here no reference to the plague of Exodus 9:3 , etc; or Exodus 12:29 . The allusion is to the plague which was reckoned to be epidemic in Egypt, and to other loathsome diseases for which that country was notorious (see Deuteronomy 7:15 ; Deuteronomy 28:27 , ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 4:11

The fifth visitation is the earthquake ( Deuteronomy 29:23 ). I have overthrown. This is the word used to describe the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah ( Genesis 19:25 ; Jeremiah 20:16 ), and it seems better to refer the occurrence mentioned to some such convulsions of nature which caused widespread destruction, than, as Keil and others, "to the utter confusion of the state by which Israel was brought to the verge of ruin." We do not know anything about the particular earthquake to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 4:11

Burning, yet not turning. From Moses to Amos was about seven hundred years. It is a long time with men and the works of men. But it is little in the two eternities through which the purposes of God extend. There were prophecies which it had taken all this period to mature; courses of treatment for the cure of sin pursued through all the interval, and whose last measure had not yet been taken. One of these finds record here. A new event looks out at us in the guise of an ancient prophecy ( ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 4:11

The brand snatched from the burning. Amongst the methods employed by the Divine Ruler to bring Israel to repentance was some calamity, some "judgment," which overtook certain of the cities of the land. It may be doubtful whether we are to understand that those cities were, like Sodom, struck by lightning and partially consumed by fire from heaven; or were attacked and given to the flames by an invading, hostile force; or were overtaken by some disaster figuratively described in this... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 4:10

I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt - that is, after the way in which God had dealt with Egypt . God had twice promised, when the memory of the plagues which He sent on Egypt was still fresh “if thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God - I will put none of the diseases upon thee which I have brought upon the Egyptians” Exodus 15:26; Deuteronomy 7:15. Contrariwise, God had forewarned them in that same prophecy of Moses, that, if they disobeyed Him,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 4:11

I have overthrown some of you - The earthquake is probably reserved to the last, as being the rarest, and so the most special, visitation. Frequent as earthquakes have been on the borders of Palestine, the greater part of Palestine was not on the line, which was especially shaken by them. The line, chiefly visited by earthquakes, was along the coast of the Mediterranean or parallel to it, chiefly from Tyre to Antioch and Aleppo. Here were the great historical earthquakes, which were the... read more

Joseph Benson

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

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 4:6-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 4:10

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 4:11

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 4:11

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 4:11

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 4:10

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 4:11

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

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Amos 4:4-13

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Amos 4:10

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