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Amos 5:8

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"Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:"

  • Amos 5:8 - Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Amos 5:8. _THAT MAKETH THE SEVEN STARS AND ORION_] Or, _Hyades_ and _Arcturus, Kimah_ and _Kesil_. Job 9:9; _"_Job 38:32_"_, where the subject of this verse is largely considered. _TURNETH THE...

  • Amos 5:8 - Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    SEEK HIM THAT MAKETH THE SEVEN STARS - Misbelief effaces the thought of God as He Is. It retains the name God, but means something quite different from the One True God. So people spoke of “the Deity,...

  • Amos 5:8 - Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Amos 5:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE IMPENDING PUNISHMENT. The prophet gives his next few words the form of a dirge (_kî nah_,_ Amos 5:1_). This (Amos 5:2) is characterised by the peculiar _kî nah-metre_, consisting of three beats or...

  • Amos 5:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE SEVEN STARS. Hebrew. _kimah_. cluster. Modern name, the Pleiades. See notes on Job 9:9; Job 38:31; Job 38:32. Compare Isaiah 13:10. and see App-12. ORION. Hebrew. _kesel_. rigidity, strength; from...

  • Amos 5:8 - Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Proof that Israel merits the fate which has just been pronounced against it: it has sought Jehovah by a ritual which He does not value, and it has spurned the virtues which He really prizes. _Seek ye...

  • Amos 5:8 - Charles Box Commentaries

    _SEEK HIM THAT MADE THE STARS -- AMOS 5:1-9:_ Amos brought a mournful message from God to the house of Israel. He called upon them to listen to God's word. God is grieved over their wrongs and his des...

  • Amos 5:8 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1190 GOD’S CONDESCENSION AND GRACE Amos 5:8. _The Lord is his name; that strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress_. IN our public a...

  • Amos 5:8 - College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    REVELATION CALLS FOR REPENTANCEGOD'S OMNIPOTENCE AND OMNISCIENCE TEXT: Amos 5:6-13 6 Seek Jehovah, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour and there be...

  • Amos 5:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon...

  • Amos 5:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Amos 5:8 - EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Amos 5:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    Connected by E.V. with Amos 5:6 through the verb “seek ye,” so that it may thus be linked to Amos 5:7. To regard it as a solemn assertion “There is one who maketh, &c.,” is not satisfactory. We prefer...

  • Amos 5:8 - ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    עֹשֵׂ֨ה כִימָ֜ה וּ כְסִ֗יל וְ הֹפֵ֤ךְ לַ † בֹּ֨קֶר֙ צַלְמָ֔וֶת וְ יֹ֖ום לַ֣יְלָה הֶחְשִׁ֑יךְ...

  • Amos 5:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Amos 5:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “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...

  • Amos 5:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Amos 5:8 - Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    [Seek him] that (e) maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out...

  • Amos 5:8 - George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Arcturus and Orion. Arcturus is a bright star in the north, Orion a beautiful constellation in the south. (Challoner) --- Shepherds in Arabia and Spain are well acquainted with the stars. (Calmet) --...

  • Amos 5:8 - Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The first verse in this paragraph is a confirmation, if it were needed, of what I advanced in my observations on the former. Seeking the Lord, implies the hope of finding him, and indeed the promise i...

  • Amos 5:8 - Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • Amos 5:8 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _THE REVELATION OF GOD_ ‘Seek Him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea,...

  • Amos 5:8 - John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Some interpreters connect this verse with the former, and think that what the Prophet had said before is here explained; but they are greatly mistaken, and misrepresent the meaning of the Prophet. We...

  • Amos 5:8 - John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • Amos 5:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    [SEEK HIM] THAT MAKETH THE SEVEN STARS,.... Which some connect with the preceding words, without a supplement, "they leave righteousness on the ground, who maketh the seven stars"; understanding it of...

  • Amos 5:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Amos 5:8 [Seek him] that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth the...

  • Amos 5:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Ye who turn judgment to wormwood_ Or into hemlock, as the word here used is translated, Amos 6:12. Ye judges and rulers that pervert the law that was designed to protect innocence, and under colour o...

  • Amos 5:8 - Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ISRAEL'S ONLY SAFETY IN SEEKING THE LORD...

  • Amos 5:8 - Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    7-17 The same almighty power can, for repenting sinners, easily turn affliction and sorrow into prosperity and joy, and as easily turn the prosperity of daring sinners into utter darkness. Evil times...

  • Amos 5:8 - Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SEEK HIM; though this be not in the Hebrew, it is well supplied by our interpreters. THAT MAKETH THE SEVEN STARS; a famous constellation, and whose rising about September was usually accompanied with...

  • Amos 5:8 - Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Amos 5:8 made H6213 (H8802) Pleiades H3598 Orion H3685 turns H2015 (H8802) death H6757 morning H1242 day H3117 dark H2821 (H8689) night H3915 calls H7121 (H8802) waters H4325 sea H3220 out H8210 (H879...

  • Amos 5:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    A LAMENTATION OVER ISRAEL (AMOS 5:1). While speaking powerfully Amos had no joy in what was to happen to Israel, and having pronounced judgment on them, he now laments what must necessarily be their e...

  • Amos 5:8 - Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Amos 5:8 - Summarized Bible Commentary

    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 5:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • Amos 5:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

    _Seek Him that maketh the seven stars and Orion._ CREATION, AND THE CREATOR’S NAME The text brings the works of God and the name of God into one focus, and makes use of both as an argument with man...

  • Amos 5:8 - The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 5:1 Although they face imminent destruction, God still pleads with his people to return to him. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.len...

  • Amos 5:8 - The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 5:7.] God in his omnipotence in contrast with the ungodly people, indicating that he who can destroy should be feared. WORMWOOD] Justice embittered, corrupted, and made hateful...

  • Amos 5:8 - The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Amos 5:8 - Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Amos 5:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 18:44; 1 Kings 18:45; Amos 4:13; Amos 8:9; Amos 9:6; Exodus 10:21; Exodus 14:24; Genesis 7:11; Isaiah 59:10; Job 12:22;...

  • Amos 5:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The seven stars — A constellation, whose rising about September was usually accompanied with sweet showers. Orion — Which arising about November brings usually cold, rains and frosts intermixt very se...

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