Amós 5:1-2 RVA

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Amos 5:1-3

This chapter begins, as those two next foregoing began, with, Hear this word. Where God has a mouth to speak we must have an ear to hear; it is our duty, it is our interest, yet so stupid are most men that they need to be again and again called upon to hear the word of the Lord, to give audience, to give attention. Hear this word. this convincing awakening word must be heard and heeded, as well as words of comfort and peace; the word that is taken up against us, as well as that which makes for... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Amos 5:1

Hear ye the word which I take up against you ,.... And which was not his own word, but the word of the Lord; and which he took up, by his direction as a heavy burden as some prophecies are called, and this was; and which, though against them, a reproof for their sins, and denunciation of punishment for them, yet was to be heard; for every word of God is pure, and to be hearkened to, whether for us or against us; since the whole is profitable, either for doctrine and instruction in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Amos 5:2

The virgin of Israel is fallen ,.... The kingdom of Israel, so called, because it had never been subdued, or become subject to a foreign power, since it was a kingdom; or because, considered in its ecclesiastic state, it had been espoused to the Lord as a chaste virgin; and perhaps this may be ironically spoken, and refers to its present adulterate and degenerated state worshipping the calves at Dan and Bethel; or else because of its wealth and riches and the splendour and gaiety in which it... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:1

Hear ye this word - Attend to this doleful song which I make for the house of Israel. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:2

The virgin of Israel - The kingdom of Israel, or the ten tribes, which were carried into captivity; and are now totally lost in the nations of the earth. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:1

Verse 1 Some render the verse thus, “Hear ye this word, because upon you, or for you, I raise a lamentation:” but we shall hereafter speak more at large as to the proper rendering. Let us see what the subject is. The Prophet here denounces on the Israelites the punishment they had deserved; and yet they did not think that it was nigh; and they ferociously despised, I have no doubt, the denunciation itself, because no chance had as yet taken place, which might have pointed out such a... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:2

Verse 2 This was substantially the vengeance which was now nigh the Israelites, though they rested securely, and even scorned all the threatening of God. The virgin of Israel, he says, has fallen Expounders have too refinedly explained the word virgin; for they think that the people of Israel are here called a virgin, because God had espoused them to himself, and that though they ought to have observed spiritual chastity towards God, they yet abandoned themselves to all kinds of pollutions: but... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:1

Hear ye this word. To show the certainty of the judgment and his own feeling about it, the prophet utters his prophecy in the form of a dirge ( kinah, 2 Samuel 1:17 ; 2 Chronicles 35:25 ). Which I take up against you; or, which I raise over you, as if the end had come. O house of Israel; in the vocative. The Vulgate has, Domus Israel cecidit ; so the LXX . But the present Hebrew text is most suitable, making the dirge begin at Amos 5:2 . The ten tribes are addressed as in ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:1-3

Israel's elegy. It is poor work singing the things that might have been. It means sweet dreams dispelled, fair hopes blighted, and human lives in ruins. Yet such is the prophet's task in this passage—writing Israel's elegy among the graves of her dead millions. He had been denouncing nameless woes against the rebellious people, Here he changes his tone to that of a mournful spectator of accomplished ills. In imagination he throws himself forward out of the sinful present into the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:2

The virgin of Israel; i.e. the virgin Israel; so called, not as having been pure and faithful to God, but as tenderly treated and guarded from enemies (comp. Isaiah 23:12 ; Isaiah 47:1 ; Jeremiah 14:17 ). Is fallen ; she shall no more rise. This is apparently a contradiction to the promise of restoration elsewhere expressed, but is to be explained either as referring exclusively to the ten tribes, very few of whom returned from exile, and to the kingdom of Israel which was never... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Amos 5:1-3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Amos 5:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Amos 5:2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:1

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:2

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:1

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:1-3

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:2

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