Amós 5:13 NVIPT

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Amos 5:4-15

This is a message from God to the house of Israel, in which, I. They are told of their faults, that they might see what occasion there was for them to repent and reform, and that, when they were called to return, they might not need to ask, Wherein shall we return? 1. God tells them, in general (Amos 5:12), ?I know your manifold transgressions, and your mighty sins; and you shall be made to know them too.? In our penitent reflections upon our sins we must consider, as God does in his judicial... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Amos 5:13

Therefore the prudent shall keep silence at that time ,.... Not the prophets of the Lord, whose business it was at all times to reprove, and not hold their peace, let the consequence be what it would; though the Targum calls them teachers; but private persons, whose wisdom it would be to say nothing; since reproof would do no good to these persons, and they would bring a great deal of hatred ill will, and trouble upon themselves as well as would hear the name of God blasphemed, which would... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:13

The prudent shall keep silence - A wise man will consider that it is useless to complain. He can have no justice without bribes; and he has no money to give: consequently, in such an evil time, it is best to keep silence. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:13

Verse 13 Some interpreters think that a punishment is here denounced on the people of Israel, and that is, that the Lord would deprive them of Prophets and teachers. We indeed know that nothing is more to be dreaded, than that the Lord should extinguish the light of sound doctrine, and suffer us to go astray in darkness, yea, to stumble, and to rush headlong to ruin, as they do who are destitute of wholesome counsels. But I think that the meaning is quite different. Another exposition may be... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:7-13

The contrast presaging the conflict. Judgment is coming. Warning has been given. Duty, and the prevailing derelictions of it, have been pointed out. Here God's perfections and Israel's iniquities are set in juxtaposition, and the co]location is suggestive. Such incompatibility must lead to collision. It is by God's character and ours that our mutual relations and attitudes are shaped. We see here— I. GOD REVEALING HIMSELF . ( Amos 5:8 , Amos 5:9 .) God's work is an important... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:13

Even while he speaks, the prophet feels that his reproof is useless (comp. Jeremiah 7:27 , etc.; Hosea 4:1 , Hosea 4:17 ). In that time; at such a time as this, the man who acts wisely holds his peace, because it is a time of moral corruption and of personal danger. But the prophet cannot restrain his call (comp. Ezekiel 33:3 , etc.). In Micah 2:3 the "evil time" is one of calamity. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:13

A time to be silent. "Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time." These words describe an evil time, and specify one of its most evil features. It is a time of culminating wickedness, of imminent destruction, and, as related to both, of Divine non-intervention. "There is a time to keep silence" ( Ecclesiastes 3:7 ) as well as "a time to speak." And that time, as pointed out by characteristic features, was at hand in this case. Israel, which in vain had... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 5:13

Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time - The “time” may be either the time of the obduracy of the wicked, or that of the common punishment. For a time may be called “evil,” whether evil is done, or is suffered in it, as Jacob says, “Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been” Genesis 47:9. Of the first, he would perhaps say, that the oppressed poor would, if wise, be silent, not complaining or accusing, for, injustice having the mastery, complaint would only bring on... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 5:11-13

Amos 5:11-13. Forasmuch, therefore, as your treading is upon the poor It appears by this, that their acts of oppression were more than ordinarily proud and tyrannical. They were the effect of fraud executed with insolence, as the word treading, and the subsequent clause, added in explanation of it, signify. And ye take from him burdens of wheat This expresses the most grievous inhumanity, implying that they took from the poor their very sustenance by acts of injustice and violence. Ye... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Amos 5:1-15

God requires repentance (5:1-15)The prophet again recalls past warnings that the people had consistently ignored. He sees vividly that the result of the people’s stubbornness will be the destruction of Israel. Samaria will be conquered and most of Israel’s army wiped out (5:1-3).What God wants is not an increase in religious ceremonies but a turning in heart and life to him. He does not want processions to religious holy places (which, in any case, will be destroyed) but the administration of... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Amos 5:4-15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Amos 5:13

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:13

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:13

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:7-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:13

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:13

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 5:13

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 5:11-13

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Amos 5:1-15

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