George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Amos 1:2
Carmel. "God's vineyard," may dente any fruitful mountain. Amos refers to pastoral affairs. (Calmet)
Carmel. "God's vineyard," may dente any fruitful mountain. Amos refers to pastoral affairs. (Calmet)
Verse Amos 1:2. _THE LORD WILL ROAR FROM ZION_] It is a pity that our translators had not followed the hemistich form of the Hebrew: - Jehovah from Zion shall roar, And from Jerusalem shall give for...
THE LORD WILL ROAR - Amos joins on his prophecy to the end of Joel’s, in order at once in its very opening to attest the oneness of their mission, and to prepare people’s minds to see, that his own pr...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED AGAINST THE NATIONS, JUDAH, AND ISRAEL CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The introduction (Amos 1:1) _ 2. Damascus (Amos 1:3) 3. Philistia (Amos 1:6) 4. Tyre ...
AMOS 1:1 F. SUPERSCRIPTION AND MOTTO. In the present form of the book we find prefixed to the oracles, probably by a post-exilic editor, some brief particulars as to the person of the prophet, the dat...
HE SAID. Thus writing the words down. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah_. App-4. This title is not the usual one in this book. ROAR. roar as a. lion, or thunder. It is always, when predicated of the Lord,...
Amos 1:2. The Exordium 2. _The Lord_ JEHOVAH, or, strictly, YAHWÈH, the personal name by which the supreme God was known to the Hebrews. The name whatever its primitive signification may have been was...
_TRANSGRESSIONS OF DEMACUS -- AMOS 1:1-5:_ Amos was not a professional prophet. He said, "I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit.” (Amo...
THE LORD WILL ROAR— Some commentators have observed that the prophet Amos makes use of comparisons taken from lions and other animals, because he himself had been conversant in forests and among diffe...
PUNISHMENT PROMISED, THE HEATHEN NATIONSDAMASCUS TEXT: Amos 1:1-5 1. The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and...
And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither. THE LORD WILL ROAR FROM ZION - a...
1:2 pastures (a-16) or 'habitations.' see Jeremiah 9:10 ; Jeremiah 23:10 ; Jeremiah 25:37 , &c....
THE SINS OF ISRAEL'S NEIGHBOURS AND THE PUNISHMENTS WHICH SHOULD FOLLOW 1. We may paraphrase the main part of the sentence thus: 'The words of Amos, describing what he saw in prophetic vision.' HERDM...
THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ ABOUT THIS BOOK WHEN AMOS LIVED Amos came from Tekoa, about 12 miles south of Jerusalem. He was a *shepherd and he looked after...
ROAR. — The prolonged thunder-peal, or lion’s roar, of the Divine voice, reverberates from the theocratic metropolis of Zion, to the luxuriant slopes of the noble Carmel, which forms the southern prom...
וַ יֹּאמַ֓ר ׀ יְהוָה֙ מִ צִּיֹּ֣ון יִשְׁאָ֔ג...
Amos 3:3, Amos 7:14 THE MAN AND THE PROPHET THE Book of Amos opens one of the greatest stages in the religious development of mankind. Its originality is due to a few simple ideas, which it propels...
OUTSIDE NATIONS SHALL SUFFER JUDGMENT Amos 1:1-10 Amos opens his prophecies with predictions against neighboring peoples, that Israel may be led to appreciate her guilt and to bear the approach of Go...
The second verse of this first chapter gives the key to the book. Jehovah declared Himself in judgment. Beginning at the point farthest from Israel, the prophet delivered his messages to the nations a...
And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top (d) of Carmel shall wither. (d) Whatever is fruitful and p...
The Prophet in a very modest preface, here introduceth himself and his commission, He was but a poor herd man, and that was among the humblest stations. And yet he was called by grace to the work. Rea...
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...
He employs here the same words which we explained yesterday in the Lecture on Joel; but for another purpose. By saying, ‘Jehovah from Zion shall roar,’ Joel intended to set forth the power of God, who...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 AND 2. In the outset Jehovah, proclaiming His own rights from the place of His own throne, roars from Zion and utters His voice from Jerusalem. Afterwards,...
AND HE SAID,.... That is, the Prophet Amos, before described; he, being under divine inspiration, said as follows: THE LORD WILL ROAR FROM ZION, AND UTTER HIS VOICE FROM JERUSALEM; not from Samaria,...
And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither. Ver. 2. _And he said, The Lord wil...
_The Lord will roar from Zion_ This and the next clause occur, Joel 3:16, and a similar one, Jeremiah 25:30, where see the notes. The meaning is, that God would soon spread terror, like beasts of prey...
And He said, speaking to Amos in a vision, by a special revelation of the Lord, THE LORD WILL ROAR FROM ZION AND UTTER HIS VOICE FROM JERUSALEM, Cf Joel 3:16; AND THE HABITATIONS OF THE SHEPHERDS, the...
AGAINST DAMASCUS AND GAZA...
HE; Amos. THE LORD; the Almighty and Eternal, whom you of the ten tribes have forsaken, and thereby have provoked to displeasure. WILL ROAR: the prophet, alluding to what was dreadful, dangerous, and...
Amos 1:2 said H559 (H8799) LORD H3068 roars H7580 (H8799) Zion H6726 utters H5414 (H8799) voice...
INTRODUCTION (AMOS 1:1). Amos 1:1 ‘The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen (cattle-breeders) of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Je...
ROAR "Roar," etc. Compare (Isaiah 42:13); (Jeremiah 25:30); (Hosea 11:10); (Hosea 11:11); ...
CONTENTS: Judgments pronounced upon surrounding peoples Syria, Tyre, Edom, Ammon. CHARACTERS: God, Amos, Uzziah, Jeroboam, Hazael, Benhadad. CONCLUSION: The God of Israel is the God of all the earth...
Amos 1:1. _The words of Amos,_ written with his own hand. He does not name his parents, because they were plain country people. He was himself _among the herdmen of Tekoa,_ a small city twelve miles s...
_The Lord will roar from Zion._ THE STERN VOICE OF GOD The prophet not only shows here, that God was the Author of his doctrine, but at the same time he distinguishes between the true God, and the id...
AMOS 1:2 Oracles of Judgment. Amos delivers a series of messages from God showing that neither Israel’s neighbors (Amos 1:2) nor Israel herself (Amos 2:6) can es
CRITICAL NOTES.] AMOS] Different from the father of Isaiah, _Amots_. TEK.] 2 Chronicles 20:20 EARTH.] 2 Chronicles 26:16. A premonitory sign in nature of revolutions in guilty kingdoms ...
EXPOSITION VERSE 1-CH. 2:16 PART I. APPROACHING JUDGMENT. VERSE 1-CH. 2:3 _§ 1. The nations bordering on the Holy Land are solemnly summoned to judgment._ AMOS 1:1, AMOS 1:2 Heading o
Let's turn now to the book of Amos. In the first verse of Amos he introduces himself. These are the words of Amos, who was among the herdmen [or a shepherd] at Tekoa (Amos 1:1), Now Tekoa is a little...
1 Samuel 25:2; Amos 3:7; Amos 3:8; Amos 4:7; Amos 4:8;...
Will roar — Alluding to the roaring of an hungry lion for prey. Jerusalem — The city God had chosen where he dwelt, the seat of God's instituted worship, and the royal seat of the kingdom as God had s...