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Verse Amos 4:12. _THEREFORE THUS WILL I DO UNTO THEE_] I will continue
my judgments, I will fight against you; and, because I am thus
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_PREPARE TO MEET THY GOD, O ISRAEL._] This is a mili...
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THEREFORE THUS WILL I DO UNTO THEE - God says more by His silence. He
had enumerated successive scourges. Now, with His hand uplifted to
strike, He mentions none, but says, “thus.” Rib.: “So men too,...
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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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PREPARE TO MEET, &c. i.e. in judgment. Compare Ezekiel 13:5; Ezekiel
22:30; Amos 4:11 and Amos 4:12 are not "out of place" or an
"interpolation", but are required by the Structure, "M", below.
Amos 4...
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Here the people at large are addressed by the prophet, perhaps at some
festal religious gathering....
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_PREPARE TO MEET THY GOD -- AMOS 4:12-13:_ One of the most sobering
statements in the Bible is "Prepare to meet thy God." After continual
rejection God told Israel to "Get ready to face your God!" Thi...
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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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THEREFORE THUS WILL I DO UNTO THEE, &C.— _But now what shall I do
unto thee, O Israel, after I have done these things? Prepare to meet
thy God, O Israel!_ Amos 4:13. _For lo, he is at hand, who formet...
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REVELATION CALLS FOR REPENTANCEGOD'S CHARACTER AND WILL REVEALED
TEXT: Amos 4:12-13
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Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel; and because I will do
this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O...
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Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do
this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
THEREFORE - as all chastizements have failed to make thee "return
unto me....
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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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THUS WILL I DO. — What is he about to do? It is left in awful
uncertainty, but the doom is wrapt up in the boundless possibilities
of the Divine judgment involved in the drawing very near of the Lord...
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לָכֵ֕ן כֹּ֥ה אֶעֱשֶׂה ־לְּךָ֖
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל עֵ֚קֶב כִּֽי ־זֹ֣את
אֶֽעֱשֶׂה ־לָּ֔ךְ הִכֹּ֥ון לִ קְרַאת
־אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ
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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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“PREPARE TO MEET THY GOD”
Amos 4:12-13; Amos 5:1-15
Worse judgments than those mentioned in the previous verses were in
store but before they are inflicted, the entire nation is summoned to
the divi...
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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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Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: [and] because I will do
this unto thee, prepare to (n) meet thy God, O Israel.
(n) Turn to him by repentance....
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_These. He mentions not what, to keep them in greater suspense and
dread; (St. Jerome) or he will put in execution what he had threatened
before, ver. 2. --- Meet. Septuagint, "beseech." Aquila, "oppo...
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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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_‘PREPARATION TO MEET GOD’_
‘Prepare to meet thy God!’
Amos 4:12
That man has still to learn the real lesson of life, who has not yet
been taught to read it, in all its Chapter s of joy and sorrow,...
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Amos here declares, in the person of God, that the people in vain
hoped for pardon, or for a modification, or an abatement, or an end to
their punishment; for God had in vain made the attempt, by many...
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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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THEREFORE THUS WILL I DO UNTO THEE, O ISRAEL,.... What he would do is
not expressly and particularly said; it is commonly understood to be
something in a way of judgment, and worse than what he had do...
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Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: [and] because I will do
this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
Ver. 12. _Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel_] Thus? how?
_Non nomin...
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_Therefore thus will I do unto thee_ I will continue to send these
several judgments upon thee till I entirely destroy thee. _And
because_, or, _forasmuch, as I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet...
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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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THEREFORE, because none of my former methods have succeeded, as in
reason might have been expected, THUS WILL I DO UNTO THEE, in some
more terrible manner will I now proceed against thee, O Israel; yo...
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Amos 4:12 do H6213 (H8799) Israel H3478 Because H6118 do H6213 (H8799)
Prepare H3559 (H8734) meet H7125 (H8800) God H430 Israel H3478
thus - Amos 4:2-3, Amos 2:14, Amos 9:1-4
prepare -...
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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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Amos 4:12
Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel" _i.e._prepare thyself, if penitent,
to meet Him with supplications, prayers, and tears; but if still
hardened and impenitent, to encounter His just vengean...
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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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_Prepare to meet thy God._
PREPARATION FOR JUDGMENT
We will endeavour to enforce the exhortation of the text in a series
of arguments, illustrating the reasons why due obedience and attention
should...
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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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THREATENED EVIL ESCAPED BY RETURN TO GOD.—_Amos 4:12_
“When he has said, ‘This will I do to thee,’ he is silent as to
what he will do, in order that whilst Israel is left in uncertainty as
to the par...
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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 Thessalonians 5:2; Amos 5:4; Amos 2:14; Amos 4:2; Amos 4:3; Amos
9:1; Ezekiel 13:5; Ezekiel 22:30; Hosea 13:8; Isaiah 47:3;...
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Therefore — In a more terrible manner will I now proceed against
thee....