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Verse Amos 4:4. _COME TO BETH-EL AND TRANSGRESS_] Spoken _ironically_.
Go on to worship your calves at Beth-el; and _multiply_ your
_transgressions at Gilgal_; the very place where I _rolled away_ the...
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COME TO BETH-EL AND TRANSGRESS - Having foretold their captivity, the
prophet tries irony. But his irony is in bidding them go on to do,
what they were doing earnestly, what they were set upon doing,...
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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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COME TO BETH-EL, &c. Here we have Divine irony, as though it meant
"Fill up the measure of your iniquity". Compare Matthew 23:32.
TRANSGRESS... TRANSGRESSION. Hebrew pasha'. App-44.
BETH-EL... GILGA...
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_Come_to _Beth-el, and transgress_&c. The words are meant of course
ironically. Amos bids the people _come to Beth-el_, the principal and
most splendid centre of their worship, _and transgress, to Gil...
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_COME TO BETHEL AND GILGAL AND SIN -- AMOS 4:4-5:_ When God invited
the people to come to Bethel and Gilgal He did not invite them to come
there for worship. Bethel was one of the places where the cal...
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COME TO BETH-EL— This and the following verses are spoken
ironically. See Hosea 4:15; Hosea 12:11. "Signalize your zeal and your
diligence in those things which the Lord abhorreth most." Instead of,
_...
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REASON CALLS FOR REPENTANCE GOD'S HOLINESS DEMANDS PUNISHMENT FOR EVIL
TEXT: Amos 4:1-5
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Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of
Samaria, that oppress the poor, that crush t...
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Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and
bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three
years: COME TO BETH-EL, AND TRANSGRESS; AT GILGAL MULTIPLY
TRANS...
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4:4 days, (d-21) Perhaps 'years;' 'days' in Hebrew is used for
'years,' but here probably it is in irony....
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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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BETHEL... GILGAL. — In bitterly ironical words the prophet summons
Israel to the calf-worship of Bethel, and to similar rites of bastard
Jehovah-worship at Gilgal. These spots were full of sacred
asso...
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בֹּ֤אוּ בֵֽית־אֵל֙ וּ פִשְׁע֔וּ הַ
גִּלְגָּ֖ל הַרְבּ֣וּ לִ פְשֹׁ֑עַ וְ
הָבִ֤יאוּ לַ † בֹּ֨קֶר֙...
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CIVILIZATION AND JUDGMENT
Amos 3:1 - Amos 4:3
WE now enter the Second Section of the Book of Amos: Chapter s 3-6. It
is a collection of various oracles of denunciation, grouped partly by
the recurre...
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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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Come to (d) Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression;
and bring your sacrifices every morning, [and] your tithes after three
(e) years:
(d) He speaks this in contempt of those who res...
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_Galgal. Thither the people went of their own accord, as to a place of
devotion, Osee iv. 15. Amos ironically tells them to proceed, as
Christ addressed the Jews, Matthew xxiii. 32. (Calmet) --- After...
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It should seem that in the midst of all their transgressions they
still carried on a shew of religion. Like their idolatrous neighbours
around, they would not be totally void of some form of worship,...
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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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The Prophet here again pours contempt on the perverse confidence, in
which the Israelites were become hardened. They thought, indeed, that
their worship was fully approved by God, when they offered Sa...
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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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COME TO BETHEL AND TRANSGRESS,.... and what follows, are ironic and
sarcastic speeches, not giving liberty to sin, but in this way
reproving for it: Bethel was one of the places where the calves were...
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Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and
bring your sacrifices every morning, [and] your tithes after three
years:
Ver. 4. _Come to Bethel and transgress_] Do so, if you...
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_Come to Beth-el_ The known place of the calf-worship; _and
transgress_ A strong irony, giving them over as incorrigible: like
that of Ezekiel 20:39, _Go ye, serve every man his idols. At Gilgal
multi...
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DENUNCIATION OF THE OUTSTANDING VICES...
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THREE YEARS:
_ Heb._ three years of days...
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1-5 What is got by extortion is commonly used to provide for the
flesh, and to fulfil the lusts thereof. What is got by oppression
cannot be enjoyed with satisfaction. How miserable are those whose
co...
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COME TO BETH-EL, the known place of the moscholatria, calf-worship:
see AMOS 3:14. AND TRANSGRESS: this clears it to be an irony, either
throwing them up to their obstinate way of sinning, giving them...
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Amos 4:4 Come H935 (H8798) Bethel H1008 transgress H6586 (H8798)
Gilgal H1537 multiply H7235 (H8685) transgression H6586 (H8800) Bring
H935 (H8685) sacrifices H2077 morning H1242 tithes H4643 three H7...
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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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BETH-EL
Compare (1 Kings 12:25).
Any altar at Beth-el, after the establishment of Jehovah's worship at
Jerusalem was of necessity divisive and schismatic. (Deuteronomy
12:4).
Compare (John 4:21); ...
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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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_Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression._
ILL-SPENT SERVICE
I. The scenes of this idolatry. “Come to Bethel, and transgress; at
Gilgal multiply transgression.” Idolatry was...
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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 4:4. Gilgal] The scene of idolatry. MULTIPLY] Irony. Since you
will not be reformed, go on, try whether God likes your sacrifices;
eager as you are in worship, you will not pre...
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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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Amos 3:14; Amos 5:5; Deuteronomy 14:28; Deuteronomy 14:29; Deuteronomy
26:12; Ecclesiastes 11:9; Ezekiel 20:39; Hosea 12:11; Hosea 4:15;...
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Come to Beth — el — A strong irony, giving them over as
incorrigible. At Gilgal — Gilgal was a place where much idolatry was
acted. Every morning — In the same irony God reproves their sins
tho' they...