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Amos 3:3

Can two walk together except they be agreed? This and the following propositions, bringing out illustrations from daily life, are intended to substantiate the prophet's right to speak to the people in this manner, even if they were inclined to resent his sharp words. Jehovah and His prophet are in perfect agreement, as the sequel was bound to show.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Amos 3:3. _CAN TWO WALK TOGETHER_] While ye loved and served me, I dwelt in you and walked among you. Now ye are become alienated from me, your nature and mine are totally opposite. I am holy,...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Sacred parables or enigmas must have many meanings. They are cast on the mind, to quicken it and rouse it by their very mystery. They are taken from objects which in different lights, represent differ...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    II. THE PROPHETIC MESSAGES UNCOVERING THE CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE CHAPTER 3 The First Discourse _ 1. There is cause for judgment (Amos 3:1) _ 2. The coming judgment visitation (Amos 3:9) Amos 3:1...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISRAEL'S RESPONSIBILITY AND THE PROPHET'S OBLIGATION. Amos, after addressing the children of Israel, includes Judah by adding the whole family, unless this is a gloss, as it may be, since the inclusio...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    CAN TWO... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis_ (in negative affirmation). App-6. This is the first of five parables. The answer to each is self-evident, BE AGREED. have met together by appointment [of time...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Can_ better _Will?_or _Do?_if one sees two persons walking together, it may be inferred that, either at the time or previously, they have come to some agreement to do so. The example may have been su...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Examples of sights, or sounds, from which the action of some proper or sufficient cause may, in each case, be inferred....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Such a severe rebuke might provoke contradiction among the prophet's hearers: he therefore proceeds to indicate the authority upon which it rests, arguing by means of a series of illustrations drawn f...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _JUDGMENT AGAINST THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL -- AMOS 3:1-3:_ God had brought the family of Israel out of bondage in Egypt. Now God's judgment would be poured out against His own people because of their tr...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1186 REQUISITES FOR FRIENDSHIP WITH GOD Amos 3:3. _Can two walk together, except they be agreed?_ IT is not always safe to judge of God, and the things which relate to Him, by the things w...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    CAN TWO WALK, &C.— The similies in these verses have the same meaning, and they all tend to shew that calamities happen according to the appointing, permissive, or suffering will of God; and that prop...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PENITENCE PROMOTEDREASON CALLS FOR REPENTANCE THE LORD DOES NOT ROAR WITHOUT CAUSE TEXT: Amos 3:1-8 1 Hear this word that Jehovah hath spoken against you, O children of Israel against the whole fam...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Can two walk together, except they be agreed? Here follow several questions of a parable-like kind, to awaken conviction in the people. CAN TWO WALK TOGETHER, EXCEPT THEY BE AGREED? - Can God's pr...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    BE AGREED] RV 'have agreed,' have made an appointment. If two people were seen walking together in the desolate regions with which Amos was familiar it might be assumed that they had not met by chance...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FIRST ADDRESS 1-8. A call to attention. 9, 10. The oppressions practised by the powerful. 11-15. The disasters which should overtake them, their sanctuary and their palaces. 1. 'Race' would be...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 3 GOD WARNS ISRAEL’S PEOPLE V1 People in Israel, listen to this message. The *Lord has spoken against you. This message...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    TWO. — Who are the two here represented? Some commentators say, two prophets; Rosenmüller, “God and the prophet.” But Grotius, Lowth, Henderson, and Pusey refer it, with more reason, to God and Israel...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֲ יֵלְכ֥וּ שְׁנַ֖יִם יַחְדָּ֑ו בִּלְתִּ֖י אִם...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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 recurren...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE LORD'S WORD MUST COME TRUE Amos 3:1-15 The closer our relationship with God, the more searching His scrutiny and chastening. The sins of God's children which may seem of slight consequence are ri...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Having thus uttered the declamations of Jehovah's judgment on all the nations, the prophet delivered his special message to Israel in a series of three discourses. In each the introductory word is, "H...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Can two walk together, except they be (b) agreed? (b) By this the Prophet signifies that he speaks not of himself, but as God guides and moves him, which is called the agreement between God and his P...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Agreed? As t hey cannot do this well, so neither can man be acceptable to God, unless he keep his laws. (Worthington) --- The prophet here proves his mission, intimating that if he were not inspired,...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The Lord is going on in his expostulations. He first shews, that by Israel's revolt that sweet communion between the Lord and his people was interrupted. Ca n two walk together except they be agreed?...

  • 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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _A PAIR OF FRIENDS_ ‘Can two walk together, except they be agreed?’ Amos 3:3 There is instruction in the very way in which this text is introduced. God was remonstrating with His people, and this w...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet here accumulates similitudes which may, however, be reduced to five particulars. He first shows that he uttered no empty words, but had God’s authority for what he said; and he appeals to...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    After having specified each one of the nations that were found on the territory promised to Abraham, God addresses Judah and Israel together-the whole family whom He had brought up from Egypt. These o...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    CAN TWO WALK TOGETHER EXCEPT THEY BE AGREED?] Unless they meet together, and appoint time and place, when and where they shall set out, what road they will take, and whither they will go; without such...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Can two walk together, except they be agreed? Ver. 3. _Can two walk together, except they be agreed_] God permits his people to walk together with him in a humble familiarity; but then they must take...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Can two walk together_ Comfortably as friends; _except they be agreed_ Except they be in peace with each other? So neither can I conduct myself toward you as a friend or benefactor, nor can you have...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-8 The distinguishing favours of God to us, if they do not restrain from sin, shall not exempt from punishment. They could not expect communion with God, unless they first sought peace with him. Whe...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Here the prophet threatens this people that God would begin his visitations and their punishments in his forsaking them, and doth by this interrogatory endeavour to convince them that they could not w...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Amos 3:3 two H8147 walk H3212 (H8799) together H3162 unless H1115 agreed H3259 (H8738) Agree - PtC H35084...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE INEVITABILITY OF JUDGMENT, BOTH BECAUSE OF WHAT YHWH IS, AND BECAUSE HE WILL ACT (AMOS 3:1). Following up on the idea in Amos 2:9 Amos commences this section of his prophecy (introduced by ‘hear t...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE COVENANT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN YHWH AND HIS PEOPLE (AMOS 3:1). The covenant relationship between YHWH and His people is revealed in this carefully constructed passage in which there is constant re...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Amos 3:3 The words of our text are in themselves so general, that they might very well stand alone as a proverbial truth, capable of a vast variety of applications. They would furnish an ample theme f...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jehovah's controversy with Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Amos. CONCLUSION: Judgment begins at the house of God. The nearer men are to God in profession, and the kinder notice God has taken of t...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Amos 3:1. _Against the whole family_ of the twelve tribes, _which I brought up from Egypt._ It was a laborious work to make them hear. The prophets did not confine their labours to local districts. Am...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Can two walk together, except they be agreed?_ AGREEMENT WITH GOD Order is the first law of heaven’s empire. In the material world God has secured it by absolute power. In the world of mind His auth...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _You only have I known of all the families of the earth._ SIN IN THE HIGHLY-FAVOURED This is shameful ingratitude. The honour and blessing conferred on the Israelites gave the stain of ingratitude to...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 3:3 With a series of questions, Amos shows that disaster is coming for Israel. In nature, certain sequences of events lead to predictable outcomes. If a LION roars (vv....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] AMOS 3:3. TWO] The prophet and the Spirit of God. Israel did not believe that _God_ threatened such denunciations by the prophets (ch. Amos 6:1; Amos 1:7). Amos spoke because God com...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION VERSE 1-CH. 6:14 Part II. THREE ADDRESSES PARTICULARIZING THE SINS OF ISRAEL AND ANNOUNCING IMMINENT JUDGMENT. AMOS 3:1 § 1.

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Hear this word [Amos said] that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, and against the whole family (Amos 3:1) So that would include Judah also. which I brought up from the land of...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Corinthians 6:14; Genesis 17:1; Genesis 5:22; Genesis 6:9...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Agreed — Can you have God's presence while you walk so contrary to him?...

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