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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Amos 3:8

The lion hath roared, in sounding the warning of his approach, who will not fear? The Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy? Amos was simply carrying out the work of his calling in announcing to his people the impending judgment of Jehovah. Even so the servants of God are bound to make known His holy will, regardless of the manner in which their hearers react to the truth.

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See also Amos 3:8 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Amos 3:8. _THE LION HATH ROARED,_] God hath sent forth a terrible alarm, _Who will not fear_? Can any hear such denunciations of Divine wrath and not tremble? _THE LORD GOD HATH SPOKEN_] And th...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE LION HATH ROARED: WHO WILL NOT FEAR? THE LORD GOD HATH SPOKEN: WHO CAN BUT PROPHESY? - that is, there is cause for you to fear, when the Lord “roareth from Zion;” but if ye fear not, God’s prophet...

  • 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

    THE LION BATH ROARED. Figure of speech _Hypocatastasis._ App-6. the Lord GOD hath spoken. Figure of speech _Hermeneia._ App-6. Explaining the Figure of speech _Hypocatastasis._ in the preceding line....

  • 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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Similarly the horn is a signal of danger; calamity is a sign that Jehovah has willed it; and the appearance of a prophet is an indication that Jehovah has sent him....

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _THE LORD HAS SPOKEN -- AMOS 3:7-11:_ Whatever God intended to do He revealed through His prophet. It was not just talk. It would happen just as He revealed through His messenger. When God's prophets...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1188 GOD’S VOICE TO SINNERS Amos 3:8. _The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy?_ THERE is not any thing more strange and unreasonable than t...

  • 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

    The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy? THE LION HATH ROARED, WHO WILL NOT FEAR? THE LORD GOD HATH SPOKEN, WHO CAN BUT PROPHESY? As when "the lion r...

  • 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

    ROARED. — Comp. the imagery of Amos 1:2, and that of Amos 3:4. The voice of the Lord is so audible, so clearly portending the coming judgment, that universal terror inevitably follows. (Comp. “If thes...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אַרְיֵ֥ה שָׁאָ֖ג מִ֣י לֹ֣א יִירָ֑א אֲדֹנָ֤י י

  • 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

    The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but (i) prophesy? (i) Because the people always murmured against the Prophets, he shows that God's Spirit moved them to spea...

  • 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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    It now follows, _The lion roars who would not fear? The Lord Jehovah speaks, who would not prophesy? _In this verse the Prophet reproved the Israelites for their usual contentions with the Prophets wh...

  • 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

    THE LION HATH ROARED, WHO WILL NOT FEAR?.... Amos said this from his own experience, who, having been a herdsman in the wilderness of Tekoa, had often heard a lion roar, which had put him into a panic...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy? Ver. 8. _The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy?_] Who that k...

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

    _The Lord will do nothing, but he revealeth_, &c. As if he had said, You cannot complain of your not being forewarned of these calamities coming upon you, for God hath not done, nor will do any thing,...

  • 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

    THE LION HATH ROARED; God hath threatened; and, as a lion roareth when near his prey, so God hath terribly threatened what is near to be done. Amos lived and prophesied in Jeroboam's time, about A.M....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Amos 3:8 lion H738 roared H7580 (H8804) not H3808 fear H3372 (H8799) Lord H136 GOD H3069 spoken...

  • 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...

  • 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

    _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

    1 Corinthians 9:16; Acts 4:20; Acts 5:20; Acts 5:29; Amos 2:12;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Hath roared — As a lion roareth when near his prey: so God hath terribly threatened what is near to be done. Prophesy — Amos can not but speak what he had heard....

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