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The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 7:3

The repentance of Jehovah. Whatever it was of which the Lord is here said to have repented, the meaning, the lesson, is the same. The plague of locusts, the incursion of the foe, was stayed, and it was stayed in consequence of the prophet's intercession, and because of the pity and loving kindness of Jehovah. I. NO CHANGE IS ASSERTED IN THE CHARACTER , THE GOVERNMENT , THE WILL , OF THE ETERNAL . In this sense the Lord is not a man that he should repent.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 7:4

Called to contend by fire; Septuaguint, ἐκάλεσε τὴν δίκην ἐν πυρί , "called for judgment by fire;" Vulgate, vocabat judicium ad ignem. God called the people to try their cause with him by sending fire as a punishment among them (comp. Isaiah 66:16 ; Ezekiel 38:22 ); and in the vision the fire is represented as so vehement that it devoured the great deep, drank up the very ocean itself ( Genesis 7:11 ; Isaiah 51:10 ); or the subterranean fountains and springs, as Genesis... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 7:4-6

§ 2. The second vision devouring fire, represents a more severe judgment than the preceding one, involving greater consequences, but still one which was again modified by the prayers of the righteous prophet. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 7:4-6

The vision of consuming fire. The prophet's vision goes on, and the situation in it becomes more critical. One woe is averted only for a worse to take its place. The Divine avenging hosts remain in battleline. They return to the attack with renewed vigour. For the fusillade is substituted the booming of the great guns. Escaping as by the skin of their teeth from the wasting locust, incorrigible Israel are met in the prophet's eye by the devouring fire. In connection with this second scene... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 7:1

And behold He formed - (that is, He was forming.) The very least things then are as much in His infinite Mind, as what we count the greatest. He has not simply made “laws of nature,” as people speak, to do His work, and continue the generations of the world. He Himself was still framing them, giving them being, as our Lord saith, “My Father worketh hitherto, and I work” John 5:17. The same power of God is seen in creating the locust, as the universe. The creature could as little do the one as... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 7:3

The Lord repented for this - God is said to “repent, to have strong compassion upon” or “over” evil, which He has either inflicted Deuteronomy 32:36; 1 Chronicles 21:15, or has said that He would inflict Exodus 32:12; Joel 2:13; Jonah 3:10; Jeremiah 18:8, and which, upon repentance or prayer, He suspends or checks. Here, Amos does not intercede until after the judgment had been, in part, inflicted. He prayed, when in vision the locust “had made an end of eating the grass of the land,” and when... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 7:4

God called to contend by fire - that is, He “called” His people to maintain their cause with Him “by fire,” as He says, “I will plead” in judgment “with him” (Gog) “with” (that is,” by”) pestilence and blood” Ezekiel 38:22; and, “by fire and by His sword will the Lord plead with all flesh” Isaiah 66:16; and, “The Lord standeth up to plead and standeth to judge the people” Isaiah 3:13. Man, by rebellion, challenges God’s Omnipotence. He will have none of Him; he will find his own happiness for... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 7:1

Amos 7:1. Thus hath the Lord showed unto me The Lord also showed me the following things. Here the prophet mentions the first of five prophetic representations of what was coming upon this people. He formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the latter growth He appeared to me as bringing a vast multitude of grasshoppers upon the land at the season when the grass begins to shoot again after the first mowing. Though this be spoken in a literal sense of a plague of grasshoppers, yet some... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 7:2-3

Amos 7:2-3. When they had made an end of eating the grass With us grasshoppers are not hurtful, but those in our text were locusts, as the word גבי , here used, is rendered, Isaiah 33:4: in which sense the word is understood by the Vulgate and Houbigant: see also Nab. 3:17. By whom shall Jacob arise? Or, who shall raise up Jacob; for he is small? If thou suffer these calamities to proceed to extremities, by what means shall the small remains of the riches and strength of the kingdom... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 7:4-6

Amos 7:4-6. The Lord God called to contend by fire, &c. This represented a sorer judgment than the former, and, in the opinion of some expositors, denoted the invasion of Tiglath-pileser, who carried a great part of Israel away captive, 2 Kings 15:29, and so was properly represented by a raging fire, which consumed the sea by turning it into vapours, and then devoured a great part of the land. Then said I, O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee, &c. Here the prophet observes, that upon... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 7:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 7:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 7:4-6

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 7:4-6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 7:1

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 7:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 7:4

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 7:1

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 7:2-3

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 7:4-6

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