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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Amos 1:1-8

Against Damascus and Gaza v. 1. The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen, a man who owned and tended sheep, of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel, chiefly with regard to the northern kingdom, in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, the second of that name, the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake, an event of some importance in the history of that century. Cf Zechariah 14:5. v. 2. And He said, speaking to Amos in a vision, by a... 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

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Amos 1:1-10

Outside Nations Shall Suffer Judgment Amos 1:1-10 Amos opens his prophecies with predictions against neighboring peoples, that Israel may be led to appreciate her guilt and to bear the approach of God’s righteous judgment, Luke 12:47 . The formula of three transgressions and for four , Amos 1:3 , etc., means several or many. Compare Job 5:19 . The order followed is Syria, Amos 1:3 ; Philistia, Amos 1:6 ; Tyre, Amos 1:9 ; Edom, Amos 1:11 ; Ammon, Amos 1:13 ; Moab, Amos 1:1 . Each of these... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Amos 1:1-15

The second verse of this first chapter gives the key to the book. Jehovah declared Himself in judgment. Beginning at the point farthest from Israel, the prophet delivered his messages to the nations as such. Each in turn passes before Jehovah, and receives sentence. The sin of Syria was cruelty. At last, sentence was uttered; the flame would devour, all defense would be useless, and the people would be driven into captivity. The sin of Philistia had been the slave trade. Here, as before, and... read more

Peter Pett

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

1). YHWH’s Judgment On Damascus (Amos 1:3-5 ). YHWH’s judgment on Damascus, a city (representing Aram) which had proved through the years to be Israel’s most dangerous enemy, would be because of their continually cruel treatment of Gilead at the time when they had invaded Israel again and again, ‘threshing them with instruments of iron’. Gilead was the land east of Jordan which was especially vulnerable when the kings of Israel were weak, and was in the path of any Aramaean invasion from the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 1:3-15

Seven Judgments Against The Neighbouring Nations, Including Judah (Amos 1:3 to Amos 2:5 ). The announcing of YHWH’s judgments on seven nations (including Judah) can be looked at in two ways. First it was an assurance to Israel that YHWH was watching over their basic interests and had observed the behaviour of the nations round about. By this he was gaining their interest. But even more importantly, as the inclusion of Judah brings out, Amos was cleverly gaining Israel’s consent to his... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 1:3-5

Amos 1:3-Deuteronomy : . Damascus.— It is Yahweh who speaks by the mouth of the prophets. The mention of Damascus, the capital of the Aramaean or Syrian kingdom, would at once arrest attention, for until recently Israel had been engaged in a severe struggle (p. 69) with this kingdom (Damascus stands here for the whole region). Damascus, then, had committed sins (lit. rebellions) not once or twice or thrice, but again and again (three, yea, four). It might look as though an earlier threat of... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Amos 1:3

Thus saith the Lord; Amos speaks not by conjecture, or of his own head, but as he comes in the name of the Lord, so he assures us of it by this most solemn attestation. Three transgressions: this certain number is put for an uncertain; three, i.e. many, especially when, as here, it is joined with four; their transgressions are so multiplied, grown to such height and number. Damascus was the chief city of the kingdom of Syria, and very ancient; Abraham’s steward was of this city. It was... read more

Joseph Exell

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

CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 1:3. Three] The numbers serve to denote the multiplicity of sins, “ungodliness in its worst form” [Luther]. Turn] Reverse, to make a thing go back, to withdraw it (Numbers 23:20; Isaiah 43:13). Amos 1:4. A fire] Material, as cities burned in war (Psalms 78:63); or an emblem of God’s judgments. Amos 1:5. Bar] of its gates (Jeremiah 51:30). Inhab.] Subject. Him that holdeth] Ruler. Saith] Strengthens the threat, which was fulfilled when the Assyrian king conquered Damascus... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Amos 1:1-15

Let's turn now to the book of Amos. In the first verse of Amos he introduces himself.These are the words of Amos, who was among the herdmen [or a shepherd] at Tekoa ( Amos 1:1 ),Now Tekoa is a little valley going down toward the Dead Sea from the area of Bethlehem. Actually, if you're standing on Herodian, that fortress that Herod built sort of east off Bethlehem, looking south, you're looking into the valley of Tekoa, the area from which Amos came. He was a herdsman, and then in chapter 7 he... read more