Amos 5:20
What meaning of the amos 5:20 in the Bible?
What does Amos 5:20 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?"
What does Amos 5:20 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?"
SHALL NOT THE DAY OF THE LORD BE DARKNESS? - He had described that Day as a day of inevitable destruction, such its man’s own conscience and guilty fears anticipate, and then appeals to their own cons...
CHAPTER 5 The Third Discourse _ 1. The lamentation (Amos 5:1) _ 2. Seek the Lord and ye shall live (Amos 5:4) 3. The wailing (Amos 5:16) 4. The captivity announced (Amos 5:21) Amos 5:1. This chap...
ISRAEL'S DELUSIONS. The prophet resumes the subject of Israel's delusions, how she disregards the essential conditions of real welfare. In Amos 5:18 he deals with a peculiar example of this, the conce...
SHALL NOT. ? Figure of speech _Erotesis_ (App-6), for emphasis AND NO BRIGHTNESS. Note the Figures of speech _Pleonasm_ and _Erotesis_ (App-6). Some codices omit "and"....
Those who desire the "Day of Jehovah," as though it could be anything but an interposition in their favour, will find to their surprise that it is a day fraught with peril and disaster....
_JUDGMENT IS COMING -- AMOS 5:16-20 _ Many of the people of Israel were wanting God's judgment to come. But they were in for trouble! It would not be a time of sunshine; all would be darkness. God had...
RIGHTEOUSNESS DEMANDS REPENTANCEHATE EVIL AND LOVE GOD TEXT: Amos 5:14-20 14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live; and so Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be with you, as ye say. 15 Hate the...
_SHALL NOT THE DAY OF THE LORD BE DARKNESS, AND NOT LIGHT? EVEN VERY DARK, AND NO BRIGHTNESS IN IT?_ No JFB commentary on this verse....
THE THIRD ADDRESS 1-6. A lament, a warning, and an invitation. 7, 10-20. Denunciation of injustice and oppression, with threats of pestilence and judgment. 21-27. A repudiation of their attempt to...
THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 5 GOD ENCOURAGES ISRAEL’S PEOPLE TO COME BACK TO HIM V1 People in Israel, listen to this song. ‘This funeral song is ab...
DARKNESS. — In the form of an interrogative, the condemnation contained in Amos 5:18 is emphatically reasserted. The term rendered “very dark” is that used to denote the gross Egyptian darkness that m...
הֲ לֹא ־חֹ֛שֶׁךְ יֹ֥ום יְהוָ֖ה וְ לֹא ־אֹ֑ור וְ אָפֵ֖ל וְ לֹא ־נֹ֥גַֽהּ לֹֽו׃...
2. FOR WORSHIP, JUSTICE Amos 5:1 In the next of these groups of oracles Amos continues his attack on the national ritual, and now contrasts it with the service of God in public life-the relief of th...
A DARK DAY FOR HYPOCRITES Amos 5:16-27 Mighty sins had been committed, and mighty judgments were at hand. The oppression of the poor, Amos 5:11; the erection of elegant dwellings from unrighteous ex...
The third discourse was a description of Jehovah's judgment. This opened with a lamentation for the virgin of Israel, "The virgin of Israel is fallen, she shall no more rise, she is cast down upon her...
It should seem from what is here said, that there were characters in those days not unlike the scoffers the Apostle describes, that should come in the last days, who derided the day of the Lord's comi...
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...
“You have no reason,” he says, “to hope for any light from the day of Jehovah.” Why? “For Jehovah will not come, except when armed; for, as ye conduct yourselves in a hostile manner towards him, he mu...
After having deplored the ruin of Israel, He contrasts the places of their false worship with Jehovah, the Creator, and exhorts them to come unto Him and live. But Israel put off the thought of the ev...
[SHALL] NOT THE DAY OF THE LORD [BE] DARKNESS, AND NOT LIGHT?.... The design of such a question is strongly to affirm, that, in this day of the Lord spoken of, there should be nothing but misery and d...
Amos 5:20 [Shall] not the day of the LORD [be] darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it? Ver. 20. _Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, &c._] _q.d._ How say ye now; when...
_Wo unto you that desire the day of the Lord_ Scoffingly, not believing any such day will come: for this seems to be spoken of some among them, who, in mockery, expressed a desire of seeing those thin...
WOE UPON FOOLS AND HYPOCRITES...
18-27 Woe unto those that desire the day of the Lord's judgments, that wish for times of war and confusion; as some who long for changes, hoping to rise upon the ruins of their country! but this shoul...
All these things considered, ye secure, profane, and atheistical scoffers, speak yourselves, will not that day be as dark as I have described, and as little to your comfort?...
Amos 5:20 day H3117 LORD H3068 darkness H2822 light H216 dark H651 brightness H5051 darkness - Job 3:4-6, Job 10:21-22; Isaiah 13:10; Ezekiel 34:12; Nahum 1:8; Matthew 22:13
THE DAY OF YHWH THAT IS COMING COME ON ISRAEL WILL BE A DAY OF DARKNESS, NOT LIGHT (AMOS 5:18). Amos 5:18 ‘Woe to you who desire the day of YHWH! Why would you have the day of YHWH? It is darkness,...
Amos 5:4. _For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:_ And that it just the message of God to professing Christians now: «Seek ye me.» Get away from your mere ce...
CONTENTS: God's lamentation over Israel and captivity foretold. The day of the Lord. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: If men will not take a right course to obtain the favor of God, God will take an eff...
Amos 5:2. _The virgin of Israel is fallen._ Babylon, which had never been stormed by a besieging army, is called a virgin. Isaiah 47:1. Thus Israel, whose kingdom had never yet been wholly subdued, is...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 5:16. Therefore] if ye seek not God, there will be lamentation not only by professional mourners, but in the streets of the city, in all towns of the kingdom, and in places whe...
EXPOSITION VERSE 1-CH. 6:14 § 8. _Third address_:_ the prophet utters a lamentation over the fall of Israel_. (Amos 6:1.) He calls her to repentance, while he shows wherein she has declined from the...
Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation (Amos 5:1), Weeping over the house of Israel now. The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her l...
Ezekiel 34:12; Isaiah 13:10; Job 10:21; Job 10:22; Job 3:4; Jude 1:13; Matthew 22:13; Nahum 1:8; Revelation 16:10...