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
Amos 5:1-9 Asv
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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
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:3
The city that went out by a thousand - The city that could easily have furnished, on any emergency, a thousand fighting men, can now produce scarcely one hundred - one in ten of the former number; and now of the hundred scarcely ten remain: so reduced was Israel when Shalmaneser besieged and took Samaria, and carried the residue into captivity. read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:4
Seek ye me, and ye shall live - Cease your rebellion against me; return to me with all your heart; and though consigned to death, ye shall be rescued and live. Deplorable as your case is, it is not utterly desperate. read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:5
But seek not Beth-el - There was one of Jeroboam's golden calves, and at Gilgal were carved images; both were places in which idolatry was triumphant. The prophet shows them that all hope from those quarters is utterly vain; for Gilgal shall go into captivity, and Beth-el be brought to naught. There is a play or paronomasia on the letters and words in this clause: לאון יהיה אל ובית יגלה גלה הגלגל haggilgal galoh yigleh , ubeith el yiheyeh leaven . "This Gilgal shall go captive into... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:6
Seek the Lord, and ye shall live - Repeated from Amos 5:4 . In the house of Joseph - The Israelites of the ten tribes, of whom Ephraim and Manasseh, sons of Joseph, were the chief. read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:7
Ye who turn judgment to wormwood - Who pervert judgment; causing him who obtains his suit to mourn sorely over the expenses he has incurred in gaining his right. read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:8
That maketh the seven stars and Orion - Or, Hyades and Arcturus, Kimah and Kesil. See my notes on Job 9:9 ; Job 38:32 , where the subject of this verse is largely considered. Turneth the shadow of death into the morning - Who makes day and night, light and darkness. Calleth for the waters of the sea - Raising them up by evaporation, and collecting them into clouds. And poureth them out - Causing them to drop down in showers upon the face of the earth. Who has done this?... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:9
That strengtheneth the spoiled - Who takes the part of the poor and oppressed against the oppressor; and, in the course of his providence, sets up the former, and depresses the latter. read more
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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Amos 5:9
That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong ,.... Such as have been taken by an enemy, who have been stripped of their armour, and spoiled of all their goods and substance, and have no friends nor allies, nor anything to help themselves with; the Lord can supply them with strength, furnish them with weapons, and send them helpers, so that they shall rise up against their conquerors and spoilers, and in their turn subdue them. The Targum is, "that strengthens the weak against the... read more