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Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Amos 1:3-14

II. PROPHETIC MESSAGES THAT AMOS DELIVERED 1:3-6:14The Book of Amos consists of words (oracles, Amos 1:3 to Amos 6:14) and visions (chs. 7-9), though these sections also contain short sub-sections of other types of material. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Amos 1:3-16

A. Oracles against nations 1:3-2:16An oracle is a message of judgment. Amos proceeded to deliver eight of these, seven against Israel’s neighbors, including Judah (Amos 1:3 to Amos 2:5), and one against Israel (Amos 2:6 to Amos 6:14). The order is significant. The nations mentioned first were foreign, but those mentioned next were the blood relatives of the Israelites, and Judah was its closest kin. Upon hearing this list the Israelites would have felt "a noose of judgment about to tighten... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Amos 1:6-8

2. An oracle against Philistia 1:6-8 read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Amos 1:7-8

Fire (destruction) would overtake the cities of the Philistines and affect everyone from the ordinary citizens to the rulers. Ancient Near Eastern armies commonly used fire to burn and weaken a city wall. [Note: Niehaus, p. 345.] Amos mentioned four of the five major cities of Philistia, all except Gath, probably because it had already fallen to enemies (cf. Amos 6:2; 2 Kings 12:17; 2 Chronicles 26:6). Another writer argued that Gath had become more of a Canaanite city by this time than a... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 1:1-15

The Sins of Israel's Neighbours and the Punishments which Should Follow1. We may paraphrase the main part of the sentence thus: 'The words of Amos, describing what he saw in prophetic vision.'Herdmen] or rather, 'keepers of a peculiar breed of sheep called naqad.' There must have been a number of these sheepowners in and near Tekoa. Mesha, king of Moab, is called by the same name noqed (2Ki 3:4), where our English Bible uses the word 'sheep-master.' Tekoa] 5 m. S. of Bethlehem, on a hill 2,788... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Amos 1:6-8

CURSE ON PHILISTIA.(6-8) The marginal reading is more literal, and points to the special bitterness of the proceedings of Philistia, here represented by Gaza as the principal city (comp. 2 Chronicles 21:16-17, which implies a veritable sack of Jerusalem). The extreme barbarity from which Judah suffered was that her children were delivered up to the implacable enemy Edom. (Comp. the language of Joel 3:4-6.) This may have occurred in the border warfare, in which defenceless Judæan villages were... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Amos 1:1-15

The Prophet Amos Amos 1:1 To estimate the Prophets' message we must consider something of the times in which they lived and the circumstances under which they spoke. Let us do so in the case of the Prophet Amos, from whose writings our lessons for Today are taken. You will notice as you study the prophetical books of the Old Testament that in almost every case the writing opens with a short description of the writer and precise mention of the time during which his witness was given. I. The... read more

William Nicoll

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

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

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Amos 1:3-14

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Amos 1:3-16

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Amos 1:6-8

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Amos 1:7-8

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 1:1-15

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Amos 1:6-8

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Amos 1:1-15

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

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

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

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