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Verse 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 e...
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I HAVE OVERTHROWN SOME OF YOU - The earthquake is probably reserved to
the last, as being the rarest, and so the most special, visitation.
Frequent as earthquakes have been on the borders of Palestine...
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CHAPTER 4
The Second Discourse
_ 1. Divine threatening and irony (Amos 4:1) _
2. Yet have ye not returned unto Me (Amos 4:6)
3. Prepare to meet thy God (Amos 4:12)
Amos 4:1. The prophet addresses...
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ISRAEL'S DENSENESS. What is the real cause of conduct that merits such
punishment? At the root of all the evil is a sham religion, a religion
which in its mere formality and gross corruption has degen...
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AS GOD OVERTHREW, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 19:24; Genesis
19:25.Deuteronomy 29:23; Deuteronomy 29:23). App-92. Compare Isaiah
13:19; Jeremiah 49:18. God. Hebrew Elobim. App-4.
YE WERE AS....
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Here the people at large are addressed by the prophet, perhaps at some
festal religious gathering....
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_YOU HAVE NOT RETURNED TO GOD -- AMOS 4:6-11:_ Five times the Lord
described efforts He had made to rescue Israel from sin. But each time
He said, "Yet you did not return to me," or "still you rejecte...
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DISCOURSE: 1189
INCORRIGIBLENESS REPROVED
Amos 4:11. _Yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do
this unto thee, prepare to...
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YE WERE AS A FIRE-BRAND, &C.— A proverbial expression, used both by
sacred and prophane writers to signify a narrow escape out of imminent
danger. The comparison expresses perfectly well the state to...
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REASON CALLS FOR REPENTANCECHASTENING IN THE PAST SHOULD MAKE THEM
THINK
TEXT: Amos 4:6-11
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And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and
want of bread in all your places; y...
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And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and
want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me,
saith the LORD. I ALSO HAVE GIVEN YOU. Yahweh details His seve...
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THE SECOND ADDRESS
1-3. The heartless luxury of the rich women.
4, 5. The elaborate sacrifices and pilgrimages.
6-12. The failure of God's chastisements to produce amendment.
1. These pampered wom...
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THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD
AMOS
_MARK KIRKPATRICK_
CHAPTER 4
THE WOMEN WHO LOVE LUXURY
V1 Listen to this, you cows of Bashan, who live on the mountains of
Samaria.
You hurt poor...
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OVERTHROWN. — Another awful calamity, an earthquake, is referred to,
and perhaps a volcanic eruption. Dr. Pusey enumerates a long series of
earthquakes, which distressed Palestine, though not the cent...
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הָפַ֣כְתִּי בָכֶ֗ם כְּ מַהְפֵּכַ֤ת
אֱלֹהִים֙ אֶת ־סְדֹ֣ם וְ אֶת
־עֲמֹרָ֔ה וַ תִּהְי֕וּ כְּ א֖וּד...
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1. FOR WORSHIP, CHASTISEMENT
Amos 4:4
In chapter 2 Amos contrasted the popular conception of religion as
worship with God's-conception of it as history. He placed a picture of
the sanctuary, hot with...
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CALAMITIES ARE GOD'S WARNINGS
Amos 4:1-11
Speaking after the imagery of his vocation, Amos the herdsman compares
the rich and powerful of Samaria, who were living in luxury and
wantonness, to the ki...
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The second discourse consists of Jehovah's summons to the people.
It commences with a severe and terrible indictment of the women. He
addressed them as "Ye kine of Bashan," which reveals the degradat...
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I have overthrown [some] of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
and ye were as a (m) firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye
not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
(m) You were almost...
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_Burning. This comparison shews the condition of Israel. Hardly any
escaped, Zacharias iii. 2., and 1 Corinthians iii. 15. (Calmet)_...
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Here we have an account of the Lord's sore judgments upon Israel; by
famine, by withholding the fruits of the earth, and by marking his
judgments in a distinguishing manner, causing it to rain upon on...
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Lectures on the Minor Prophets.
W. Kelly.
"The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw
concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days
of Jeroboam the...
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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...
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Chapter 4 presents the oppression of the poor, and the worship which
the children of Israel rendered at will in the places they had chosen.
God also would act as He saw fit. He had indeed already done...
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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
habita...
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I have overthrown [some] of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not
returned unto me, saith the LORD.
Ver. 11. _I have overthr...
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_I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt_ I
have sent such pestilence among you as I formerly sent upon Egypt: Or,
such as has frequently taken place in Egypt. “The unwholesome...
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VARIOUS PUNISHMENTS LEADING UP TO THE LAST JUDGMENT...
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6-13 See the folly of carnal hearts; they wander from one creature to
another, seeking for something to satisfy, and labour for that which
satisfies not; yet, after all, they will not incline their ea...
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OVERTHROWN; utterly consumed and destroyed your houses and goods. SOME
OF YOU; though it was a total consumption to those it fell on, yet it
was but on some, who might be wantings to others, and by wh...
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Amos 4:11 overthrew H2015 (H8804) God H430 overthrew H4114 Sodom H5467
Gomorrah H6017 firebrand H181 plucked H5337 (H8716) burning H8316
returned H7725 (H8804) Says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068
as God -...
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TWO INDICTMENTS OF THE PEOPLE WHICH WILL RESULT IN A SERIES OF
CHASTISEMENTS (AMOS 4:1).
A new oracle now begins with the words ‘hear this word ---' (compare
Amos 3:1; Amos 5:1) and consists of indict...
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CONTENTS: Threatening against the oppressors in Israel. Israel
reminded of God's chastening in the past.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: God designs all His providential rebukes to influence men
to tur...
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Amos 4:1. _Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan._ The strong bulls of
Bashan are celebrated in scripture. Psalms 22:13. _Vaccæ pingues,_
fat cows, haughty women, abandoned to luxurious ease, and who, equ...
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_And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities._
AFFLICTIONS PROVIDENTIAL
There is a material difference between what may be called permissive
and active providences; and between s...
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AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 4:1 This second oracle (see note on 2:6–6:14) is
composed of three parts. In Amos 4:1, Amos expands somewhat on the
points made in Amos 3:14: the sins of self-indulgence and oppressi...
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
Amos 4:6. Teeth] Famine, as threatened in the law (Deuteronomy 28:48;
Deuteronomy 28:57; cf. 2 Kings 8:1).
AMOS 4:7. YET THREE] The latter rain, which fell in latter part of
Februa...
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EXPOSITION
AMOS 4:1
_§ 2. Second address. The prophet reproves the voluptuous women of
Samaria, and fortells their captivity _(Amos 4:1);_ with bitter irony
he describes the people's devotion to idol...
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Then the Lord says,
Hear this word, ye cows of Bashan (Amos 4:1),
They worshiped the calf so God calls them a bunch of cows. But because
they worshiped the calf, He speaks disdainfully concerning th...
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1 Corinthians 3:15; 2 Peter 2:6; Amos 4:6; Ezekiel 22:17; Ezekiel
24:13; Genesis 19:24; Genesis 19:25; Hosea 11:8; Isaiah 13:19; Jeremia
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Overthrew — By grievous and desolating judgments. As a fire —
brand — Such of you as escaped were yet as fire — brands in the
midst of the fire, 'till infinite mercy saved a remnant....