アモス書 1:9 JCB

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Amos 1:3-15

ATROCITIES AND ATROCITIESAmos 1:3 - Amos 2:1-16LIKE all the prophets of Israel, Amos receives oracles for foreign nations. Unlike them, however, he arranges these oracles not after, but before, his indictment of his own people, and so as to lead up to this. His reason is obvious and characteristic. If his aim be to enforce a religion independent of his people’s interests and privileges, how can he better do so than by exhibiting its principles at work outside his people, and then, with the... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Amos 1:1-15

Analysis and Annotations I. JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED AGAINST THE NATIONS, JUDAH, AND ISRAEL CHAPTER 1 1. The introduction (Amos 1:1-2 ) 2. Damascus (Amos 1:3-5 ) 3. Philistia (Amos 1:6-8 ) 4. Tyre (Amos 1:9-10 ) 5. Edom (Amos 1:11-12 ) 6. Ammon (Amos 1:13-15 ) Amos 1:1-2 . It has been pointed out that Amos does not say like so many of the other prophets, “the Word of the Lord which came unto me,” but he begins his prophecy with the statement “the words of Amos.” The fact of divine... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Amos 1:9

1:9 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the {k} brotherly covenant:(k) For Esau (from whom came the Edomites) and Jacob were brothers, therefore they ought to have admonished them by their brotherly friendship, and not to have provoked them to hatred. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Amos 1:1-15

AMOS GENERAL OVE RV IEW OF THE BOOK The opening verse shows that Amos, like Hosea, was a prophet sent to Israel, though his home, Tekoa, was in Judah. He was contemporary with Hosea for a while, though the latter prophesied longer than he. After the introduction (Amos 1:1-3 ) there follows a series of messages concerning Gentile nations (Amos 1:4 to Amos 2:3 ), each beginning with the words “For three transgressions.., and for four, I will not turn away the punishment,” an orientalism,... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Amos 1:1-15

Divine Judgments Amos 1:0 "The words of Amos, who was among the herd men of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel" ( Amo 1:1 ). Prophets persist in saying that they "saw" the word of God. It is more than a graphic expression; the explanation is not to be found in Hebrew poetry alone. Here is the expression of a deep conviction; here are men, be they whom they may, who shut out every other sight from their eyes, and had their vision fixed upon what they at least supposed to be the word of... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Amos 1:9-10

The conduct of Tyre was base towards Israel, and now Tyrus comes to be reckoned with. The breach of the brotherly covenant, seems to have an allusion to the friendly compact which had been made between Solomon and Hiram many years before, which we may read 1 Kings 5:12 .; and so much friendship was there between them, that Hiram called Solomon brother, 1 Kings 9:13 . read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Amos 1:9-15

The Chapter closeth with the judgment of the children of Ammon; and a solemn one it is. When the Lord comes to reckon with his enemies, how tremendous his judgments are! REFLECTIONS READER! we shall lose the beauty of this solemn scripture, and overlook the interests we ourselves have in it, if we do not behold the Lord of hosts thus calling the nations to account for their hatred to Christ and his people! It is all on Christ's account that their hatred began. In all ages of the Church, this... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Amos 1:9

Brethren; for Edom and the Jews sprung from the same stock. Some think that he alludes to the alliance of the king of Tyre and David. But that had long ceased, and was not agreeable to the law; (Exodus xxii. 32., and 3 Kings ix. 13.; Calmet) at least when it was attended with much danger. (Haydock) read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Amos 1:9-15

Against Tyre, Edom, and Ammon v. 9. Thus saith the Lord, the individual announcements coming with a special reference to the inspired nature of their contents, For three transgressions of Tyre, the great metropolis and seaport of Phoenicia, Cf Isaiah 23, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof, refusing to change the punishment which He had decided upon, because they delivered up the whole captivity, all the captives obtained from the Philistines or the Syrians as the... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Amos 1:1-15

AMOS_____________CHAPTERS 1, 2The Superscription (Amos 1:1)1 The words of Amos (who was among the shepherds of Tekoa), which he saw concerning Israel, in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.And he said:—I. The Divine Judgment is announced first against the Countries lying around Israel, then against the Kingdom of Judah, but at last remains standing over the Kingdom of Israel (Amos 1:2 to Amos 2:16).2... read more