アモス書 5:25 JCB

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Amos 5:16-27

a Dark Day for Hypocrites Amos 5:16-27 Mighty sins had been committed, and mighty judgments were at hand. The oppression of the poor, Amos 5:11 ; the erection of elegant dwellings from unrighteous exactions, Amos 5:11 ; the acceptance of bribes to betray the needy, Amos 5:12 all these must be reckoned with. But if the guilty nation would not seek God and establish judgment in the gate, where magistrates sat to dispense justice, the streets would be filled with wailing, and the husbandmen and... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Amos 5:1-27

The third discourse was a description of Jehovah's judgment. This opened with a lamentation for the virgin of Israel, "The virgin of Israel is fallen, she shall no more rise, she is cast down upon her land, there is none to raise her up." This lamentation the prophet followed with a sequence of explanations, each introduced by the formula, "Thus saith the Lord." The first declared the coming decrease in population. Only a tithe of them would be spared. The second recounted the history of... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:18-27

The Two Woes (Amos 5:18 to Amos 6:7 ). It may be that we are to see the ‘alas, alas’ (ho ho) of Amos 5:16 as leading into these two ‘woes’ (hoy, hoy, a longer form of ho) in Amos 5:18 and Amos 6:1. But certainly Amos now introduces two woes/alases. The first ‘woe/alas’ is in respect of their false hopes about the day of YHWH, which they are wrongly expecting will bring them great benefits, and the second is in respect of the fact that they are at ease when they should rather be desperately... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:21-27

The Day Of Darkness Is Coming Because Of The Falsity of Their Worship In That While They Worship They Ignore Justice And Righteousness (Amos 5:21-27 ). Amos now emphatically brings out where their error lay. They came to YHWH with feasting and joyful assemblies, offering their different offerings and singing and making melody with their instruments, thinking that thereby they were pleasing YHWH (and the other gods), while all the time He looked on what they were doing and the noise that they... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:18-27

Amos 5:18-Daniel : . Israel’ s Delusions.— The prophet resumes the subject of Israel’ s delusions, how she disregards the essential conditions of real welfare. In Amos 5:18-Proverbs : he deals with a peculiar example of this, the conception or rather misconception of “ the day of Yahweh.” The current belief was that when “ the day of Yahweh” dawned, He would surely vindicate His people and punish their foes. Amos urges that this belief is a serious and unfortunate mistake, and conceives “ the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Amos 5:25

Their fathers and they, though at so great distance of time, are one people, and so the prophet considers them in this place. Have ye offered? did you not frequently omit to offer, and yet were not reproved or plagued for the omission, when your frequent removes, and many other difficulties, made it unpracticable? so little is sacrifice with your God! and yet, when you did offer, was it to me only? or did you not sacrifice to idols and false gods, and provoked me? Will-worship and idolatry have... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Amos 5:25-27

CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 5:25. Have] Lit. Did ye, equivalent to denial, some; others, not entire suspension of sacrifice, but mixed with idolatry. From of old they had been recreant to God. Their present offensive worship was only a continuation of the idolatry in the wilderness. Their sins were the very sins of their forefathers (Ezekiel 20:39). Amos 5:26. Borne] aloft in pomp, the portable shrine or model tabernacle. The idolatry censured is of Egyptian origin. A literal god of stars cannot be... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Amos 5:1-27

Chapter 5Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation ( Amos 5:1 ),Weeping over the house of Israel now.The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up ( Amos 5:2 ).Now some people use this verse and interpret it as though God has now cast off Israel forever and that there is to be no restoration by God of divine favor in the last days. This is to deny the whole body of scripture. This is speaking of... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Amos 5:1-27

Amos 5:2 . The virgin of Israel is fallen. Babylon, which had never been stormed by a besieging army, is called a virgin. Isaiah 47:1. Thus Israel, whose kingdom had never yet been wholly subdued, is called a virgin. Jeremiah 18:13. Referring to her vile idolatries, the prophet says, “The virgin daughter of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.” Alas, the virgin of Samaria is fallen; the Assyrians have overleaped her walls, and she is fallen to rise no more. Amos 5:5 . Seek not Bethel,... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Amos 5:25

Amo 5:25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? Ver. 25. Have ye offered unto me sacrifices, &c. ] i.e. To me only, and not to other gods also? did ye not begin betime to play the idolaters? and do ye not "fill up the measure of your fathers?" Matthew 23:32 . They sojourned in Egypt, and brought thence a golden calf: Jeroboam sojourned there, and brought home two; which were no sooner up than you were down upon your knees, where... read more