Plain. The city "Bikhath-Aven," or the latter word, probably denotes Baal, as the Syrians style Baal-Bek, the city which the Greeks call Heliopolis. The valley between the two mountains extending northward, is still called Bucca. --- Pleasure. Hebrew, "Beth Heden." We find Eden in a delightful part of Libanus. --- Cyrene, not in Africa, but on the river Cyrus, in Albania, 4 Kings xv. 29.
Verse Amos 1:5. _THE BAR OF DAMASCUS_] The _gates_, whose long traverse bars, running from wall to wall, were their strength. I will throw it open; and the _gates_ were forced, and the city taken, as...
I WILL ALSO BREAK THE BAR OF DAMASCUS - In the East, every city was fortified; the gates of the stronger cities were cased in iron, that they might not be set on fire by the enemy; they were fastened...
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 ...
DAMASCUS. It is Yahweh who speaks by the mouth of the prophets. The mention of Damascus, the capital of the Aramaean or Syrian kingdom, would at once arrest attention, for until recently Israel had be...
THE BAR. Note the Figure of speech _Metalepsis_ (App-6), by which "bar" is put by Figure of speech _Metalepsis_, App-6, for the gates, and then the gates put for defence of the city. Compare Deuterono...
AND _I will break the bar of Damascus_ Damascus will be powerless to resist the besieger. The allusion is to the -bars" of bronze or iron by which the gates of every fortified city were secured (see...
Amos 1:3 TO AMOS 2:5. The sins of Israel's neighbours 3 5. DAMASCUS. The first denunciation lights upon the Syrian kingdom of Damascus, the best-organized and most formidable of Israel's neighbours, w...
The punishment....
_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...
I WILL BREAK ALSO THE BAR OF DAMASCUS— See 2 Kings 16:9. The _bar_ means the _gates_ or _fortifications._ Houbigant, instead of, _The house of Eden,_ reads _The house of pleasure;_ and for _Kir,_ he t...
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...
I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto...
1:5 bar (b-6) See Deuteronomy 3:5 . valley (c-16) Or 'plain.' see Note, Joshua 11:8 . Aven, (d-18) Or 'valley of idols.' Beth-Eden; (e-26) Meaning, 'House of delight.'...
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...
I WILL BREAK... — The “bar_”_ means the bolt of iron or brass with which the city was defended. But it is possible that it may be used of persons, _i.e.,_ princes or leaders (comp. Hosea 4:18; Hosea 1...
וְ שָֽׁבַרְתִּי֙ בְּרִ֣יחַ דַּמֶּ֔שֶׂק וְ הִכְרַתִּ֤י...
ATROCITIES AND ATROCITIES Amos 1:3 - Amos 2:1 LIKE all the prophets of Israel, Amos receives oracles for foreign nations. Unlike them, however, he arranges these oracles not after, but before, his in...
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...
I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto...
The Lord begins with Damascus, one of the most ancient enemies of Israel when in Canaan. The three or four transgressions means many and for every one of which the Lord will account with them, and a d...
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 then adds,_I will break in pieces the bar of Damascus _The Prophet confirms what he had already said; for Damascus, being strongly fortified, might have seemed unassailable. By bar, the Prophet, me...
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,...
I WILL BREAK ALSO THE BAR OF DAMASCUS,.... Or bars, the singular for the plural, by which the gates of the city were barred; and, being broken, the gates would be easily opened, and way made for the e...
I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto...
_But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael_ God's judgments are often compared to fire. But perhaps the expression may here signify, that the fine palaces of Hazael, and his son and successor Be...
I will break also the bar of Damascus, shattering the bolt of its gate at the conquest of the city, AND CUT OFF THE INHABITANT FROM THE PLAIN OF AVON, possibly a place near Damascus, or the valley bet...
AGAINST DAMASCUS AND GAZA...
THE PLAIN OF AVEN: Or, Bikathaven HOUSE OF EDEN: Or, Betheden...
I, the mighty God, as AMOS 1:4, WILL BREAK, weaken and shake into pieces, THE BAR; literally, the bar with which the city gates were shut, and both fastened and strengthened, Judges 16:3 Nehemiah 7:3...
Amos 1:5 break H7665 (H8804) bar H1280 Damascus H1834 off H3772 (H8689) inhabitant H3427 (H8802) Valley...
SEVEN JUDGMENTS AGAINST THE NEIGHBOURING NATIONS, INCLUDING JUDAH (AMOS 1:3 TO AMOS 2:5). The announcing of YHWH's judgments on seven nations (including Judah) can be looked at in two ways. First it w...
1). YHWH'S JUDGMENT ON DAMASCUS (AMOS 1:3). YHWH's judgment on Damascus, a city (representing Aram) which had proved through the years to be Israel's most dangerous enemy, would be because of their co...
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...
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
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 1:5 The wooden city gates were fastened shut with a heavy wooden GATE-BAR across them. If that bar were broken, an invading army could enter the city. KIR is the ancestral home of th...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 1:3. Three] The numbers serve to denote the multiplicity of sins, “ungodliness in its worst form” [_Luther_]. TURN] Reverse, to make a thing go back, to withdraw it (Numbers 23:...
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...
2 Kings 16:9; Amos 9:7; Isaiah 43:14; Jeremiah 50:36; Jeremiah 51:30;
The bar — Literally the bar with which the city gates were shut, and fastened. Of Eden — Some royal seat, of the kings of Syria. Kir — Kir of Media, Isaiah 22:6, thither did Tiglath — Pilneser carry t...