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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 1:3-15

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

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 1:6-8

2). YHWH’s Judgment On Philistia (Amos 1:6-8 ). After Aram Israel’s next most dangerous enemy had been Philistia, which included the city states of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon and Ekron. Their border raids, during which they would take many captives in order to sell them as slaves, were a constant problem to the Israelites. For examples of their hostility see 2 Samuel 21:15-19; 1 Kings 16:15; 2Ki 18:8 ; 2 Chronicles 21:16; 2 Chronicles 28:18. What was particularly heinous was the fact that the... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 1:6-8

Amos 1:6-Ruth : . Philistia.— Philistia was another name to strike terror. The country is well represented by Gaza ( Amos 1:6), the southernmost and largest city of the Philistines (p. 28), an emporium of trade and the centre of the slave-traffic. A typical instance of brutality is found in the carrying away of a “ whole deportation” to deliver it (or them) over to Edom The reference may be to some raid in which the Philistines procured slaves for the Edomites to sell again. But Edom may, as... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Amos 1:6

Three transgressions: see Amos 1:3. Gaza; the principal city of the Philistines; all the rest are to be understood; and here the city is named, but the inhabitants are meant also with the city; ancient and strong, the seat of the Anakims, conquered by Judah, yet lost soon after to the old inhabitants. I will not turn away the punishment thereof: see Amos 1:3. They carried away captive: this refers to the inroad by the Philistines and Arabians made upon Judah in the days of Jehoram, the son of... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Amos 1:6-8

CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 1:6. Whole captivity] i.e. left none, but sold them to Edomites, the most deadly enemies to Israel: hence the greatness of the sin. Amos 1:7. Fire on the wall] An enemy shall destroy it. Fulfilled by Hezekiah (2 Kings 18:8), Sennacherib (Isaiah 47:1), and by Alexander the Great. THE JUDGMENT ON GAZA.—Amos 1:6-8In similar terms as before, the special sins of the leading and most influential city of the Philistines are mentioned. Sin in every place grows and ripens for... 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

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Amos 1:1-15

Amos 1:1 . The words of Amos, written with his own hand. He does not name his parents, because they were plain country people. He was himself among the herdmen of Tekoa, a small city twelve miles south of Jerusalem, 2 Chronicles 11:5-6; 2 Chronicles 20:20, and was called of God, like David from the flocks, and Elisha from the plow, to be a prophet of the Lord. This is Jehovah’s right, a right he never surrendered, either to the synagogue or the vatican at Rome. Two years before the... read more