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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:1-3

Opening Lamentation. Amos Pronounces A Funeral Dirge Over Israel (Amos 5:1-3 ). Amos now looks ahead into the future and proclaims a funeral dirge over Israel because her hope has gone (unless she repents). He looks ahead and sees her as having received her deathblow. Amos 5:1 ‘Hear you this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.’ ‘Hear you this word’ is indicative of a break in the narrative (compare Amos 3:1; Amos 4:1). He is taking up a new theme. For having... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:1-17

A Lamentation Over Israel (Amos 5:1-17 ). While speaking powerfully Amos had no joy in what was to happen to Israel, and having pronounced judgment on them, he now laments what must necessarily be their end if they do not repent. It demonstrates that underneath his iron words he had a tender heart. That there was opportunity to repent comes out in the continual repetition of the call to ‘seek YHWH’ and to ‘seek goodness’, and ‘live’, which is a theme of the passage (Amos 5:4; Amos 5:6; Amos... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:1-17

Amos 5:1-Esther : . The Impending Punishment.— The prophet gives his next few words the form of a dirge ( kî nah, Amos 5:1). This ( Amos 5:2) is characterised by the peculiar kî nah-metre, consisting of three beats or stresses followed by two. In the prophetic vision Israel appears as already overthrown irretrievably. She lies forsaken on the ground, and nothing can raise her. How she has come to this pass is explained in the following verse ( Amos 5:3). Her army is almost annihilated in... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Amos 5:1

This preface you have in the same words Amos 3:1, and in part also Amos 4:1; to which I now add, that the person here speaking may refer to the prophet and to the Lord who sent him, both speak this word. A lamentation; which is very sad and mournful to all concerned in it, woeful news to the kingdom of the ten tribes. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Amos 5:1-3

CRITICAL NOTES.] This word] A mournful song (2 Samuel 1:17-27). Take up] Lit. lift up as if to cast down upon them. Amos 5:2. Virgin] The Israelite state unsubdued by foreigners. Fallen] Violent death (2 Samuel 1:19-25), a figure of the overthrow of the kingdom. Rise] in the existing order. Amos 5:3. Went] to war. The depopulated city is touchingly described (Deuteronomy 28:62). HOMILETICSTHE FUNERAL DIRGE.—Amos 5:1-3“In order to impress Israel the more, Amos begins this his third appeal by a... 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

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Amos 5:1-3

Amos 5:1-3Hear ye this word which I take up against you.The end of carnal securitySuch words as these must have fallen like a thunderbolt into the midst of the corrupt and careless inhabitants of Samaria and the other cities of Israel among whom Amos prophesied. It is a dirge or lamentation, uttered by one who sees beyond the present prosperity of the land the future ruin of its proud idolaters.I. Carnal security. Nothing about sin is more wonderful to the awakened soul than that blindness... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Amos 5:1

Amo 5:1 Hear ye this word which I take up against you, [even] a lamentation, O house of Israel. Ver. 1. Hear ye this word ] A new sermon, as appeareth by this new O yes; not unlike that of St Paul, Acts 13:16 , "Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience": or rather, that of Diogenes, who cried out at Athens, Aκουσατε ανδρες , Hear, O ye men. And when as (thereupon) a great sort of people resorted to him, expecting some great matter, he looked about him, and said, ανδρας εκαλεσα, ου... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Amos 5:1

Hear: Amos 3:1, Amos 4:1 I take: Amos 5:16, Jeremiah 7:29, Jeremiah 9:10, Jeremiah 9:17, Jeremiah 9:20, Ezekiel 19:1, Ezekiel 19:14, Ezekiel 26:17, Ezekiel 27:2, Ezekiel 27:27-Jonah :, Ezekiel 28:12, Ezekiel 32:2, Ezekiel 32:16, Micah 2:4 Reciprocal: 2 Kings 18:11 - the king Joel 1:2 - Hear Zephaniah 2:5 - the word read more