Amos 4:10-11 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Amos 4:6-13

Here, I. God complains of his people's incorrigibleness under the judgments which he had brought upon them in order to their humiliation and reformation. He had by several tokens intimated to them his displeasure, with this design, that they might by repentance make their peace with him; but it had not that effect. 1. It is five times repeated in these verses, as the burden of the charge, ?Yet have you not returned unto me, saith the Lord; you have been several times corrected, but in vain;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Amos 4:10

I have sent among you the pestilence, after the manner of Egypt ,.... Like that which was sent among the firstborn of Egypt, and cut them off in one night; or when in the way of Egypt, as the Targum; either as in the wilderness, when they came out of Egypt, so Jarchi interprets it; see Numbers 16:46 ; or the Lord sent the pestilence as they went in the way to Egypt for help and assistence, or for shelter, for food in time of famine; for they went thither, as Kimchi says, because of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Amos 4:11

I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah ,.... Either their houses were burnt, or their bodies consumed by fire from heaven, with lightning; not whole cities, but the habitations of some particular persons, or they themselves: and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning ; some escaped such an awful calamity, their houses were not consumed, while others were; and their persons were safe, while others, just by them, were struck dead at once: yet... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 4:10

I have sent - the pestilence - After the blasting and the mildew, the pestilence came; and it acted among them as one of the plagues of Egypt. Besides this, he had suffered their enemies to attack and prevail against them; alluding to the time in which the Syrians besieged Samaria, and reduced it to the most extreme necessity, when the head of an ass was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five; and mothers ate the flesh of their children that... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 4:11

I have overthrown some of you - In the destruction of your cities I have shown my judgments as signally as I did in the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah; and those of you that did escape were as "brands plucked out of the fire;" if not consumed, yet much scorched. And as the judgment was evidently from my hand, so was the deliverance; "and yet ye have not returned unto me, saith the Lord." read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 4:10

Verse 10 God now expostulates with the people, because their perverseness had not been subdued even by additional punishments; for he had in vain exhorted and stimulated them to repentance. He says, that they had been smitten with pestilence. The Prophet has hitherto spoken only of the sterility of the land, and of the fruit being destroyed by infections; he has hitherto mentioned want only with its causes; this only has been stated: but now he adds that the people had been afflicted with... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 4:11

Verse 11 Amos proceeds further, and says, that God had used a severity towards his chosen people similar to that which formerly he showed towards Sodom and Gomorrah. That, we know, was a memorable evidence of God’s wrath, which ought to have filled all ages with dread, as it ought also at this day: and Scripture, whenever it graphically paints the wrath of God, sets Sodom and Gomorrah before our eyes. It was indeed a dreadful judgment, when God destroyed those cities with fire from heaven, when... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 4:1-13

§ 2. Second address. The prophet reproves the voluptuous women of Samaria, and fortells their captivity ( Amos 4:1-3 ); with bitter irony he describes the people's devotion to idolatry ( Amos 4:4 , Amos 4:5 ): he shows how incorrigible they have proved themselves under God's chastisements ( Amos 4:6-11 ); therefore they must expect further punishment, if so be that they will learn to fear the Lord ( Amos 4:12 , Amos 4:13 ). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 4:6-11

National calamities are Divine chastisements. Graphic and morally impressive is the catalogue of Divine judgments which the inspired prophet here draws up and puts upon record for the admonition of future ages. I. OF WHAT THESE CALAMITIES CONSIST . They are thus enumerated in the several verses. 1 . Famine. 2 . Drought. 3 . Blight. 4 . Pestilence. 5 . War. 6 . Destruction. Alas! from the beginnings of human history such have been the sad and weary... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 4:6-11

God's government of the world a chastising government. "And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places" etc. In these verses the Almighty describes the various corrective measures which he had employed for effecting a moral reformation in the character of the Israelites. At the end of each chastising measure which he describes, he marks their obstinate impenitence with the expression, "Yet have ye not returned unto me." As if he had... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Amos 4:6-13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Amos 4:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Amos 4:11

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 4:10

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 4:11

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 4:10

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 4:11

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 4:1-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 4:6-11

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 4:6-11

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