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SHALL NOT THE DAY OF THE LORD BE DARKNESS? - He had described that Day
as a day of inevitable destruction, such its man’s own conscience
and guilty fears anticipate, and then appeals to their own
cons...
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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 ...
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ISRAEL'S DELUSIONS. The prophet resumes the subject of Israel's
delusions, how she disregards the essential conditions of real
welfare. In Amos 5:18 he deals with a peculiar example of this, the
conce...
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SHALL NOT. ? Figure of speech _Erotesis_ (App-6), for emphasis
AND NO BRIGHTNESS. Note the Figures of speech _Pleonasm_ and
_Erotesis_ (App-6). Some codices omit "and"....
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An emphatic repetition of the thought of Amos 5:18, after the
illustration of Amos 5:19....
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Those who desire the "Day of Jehovah," as though it could be anything
but an interposition in their favour, will find to their surprise that
it is a day fraught with peril and disaster....
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_JUDGMENT IS COMING -- AMOS 5:16-20 _ Many of the people of Israel
were wanting God's judgment to come. But they were in for trouble! It
would not be a time of sunshine; all would be darkness. God had...
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RIGHTEOUSNESS DEMANDS REPENTANCEHATE EVIL AND LOVE GOD
TEXT: Amos 5:14-20
14
Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live; and so Jehovah, the God of
hosts, will be with you, as ye say.
15
Hate the...
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_SHALL NOT THE DAY OF THE LORD BE DARKNESS, AND NOT LIGHT? EVEN VERY
DARK, AND NO BRIGHTNESS IN IT?_
No JFB commentary on this verse....
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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...
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DAY OF THE LORD] see Intro., and cp. Isaiah 5:30; Isaiah 8:22; Joel
2:2; Obadiah 1:15.
21. Festivals such as Tabernacles ...
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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...
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DARKNESS. — In the form of an interrogative, the condemnation
contained in Amos 5:18 is emphatically reasserted. The term rendered
“very dark” is that used to denote the gross Egyptian darkness
that m...
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הֲ לֹא ־חֹ֛שֶׁךְ יֹ֥ום יְהוָ֖ה וְ לֹא
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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 the...
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A DARK DAY FOR HYPOCRITES
Amos 5:16-27
Mighty sins had been committed, and mighty judgments were at hand. The
oppression of the poor, Amos 5:11; the erection of elegant dwellings
from unrighteous ex...
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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...
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It should seem from what is here said, that there were characters in
those days not unlike the scoffers the Apostle describes, that should
come in the last days, who derided the day of the Lord's comi...
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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...
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“You have no reason,” he says, “to hope for any light from the
day of Jehovah.” Why? “For Jehovah will not come, except when
armed; for, as ye conduct yourselves in a hostile manner towards him,
he mu...
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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...
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[SHALL] NOT THE DAY OF THE LORD [BE] DARKNESS, AND NOT LIGHT?.... The
design of such a question is strongly to affirm, that, in this day of
the Lord spoken of, there should be nothing but misery and d...
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Amos 5:20 [Shall] not the day of the LORD [be] darkness, and not
light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
Ver. 20. _Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, &c._] _q.d._ How
say ye now; when...
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_Wo unto you that desire the day of the Lord_ Scoffingly, not
believing any such day will come: for this seems to be spoken of some
among them, who, in mockery, expressed a desire of seeing those thin...
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18-27 Woe unto those that desire the day of the Lord's judgments,
that wish for times of war and confusion; as some who long for
changes, hoping to rise upon the ruins of their country! but this
shou...
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All these things considered, ye secure, profane, and atheistical
scoffers, speak yourselves, will not that day be as dark as I have
described, and as little to your comfort?...
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Amos 5:20 day H3117 LORD H3068 darkness H2822 light H216 dark H651
brightness H5051
darkness - Job 3:4-6
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THE FIRST WOE, CONCERNING THE DAY OF YHWH (AMOS 5:18).
A ‘woe' was the opposite of a ‘blessed be you of YHWH'. It was the
announcing of troubles and disaster that would come on His people
directly fro...
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THE DAY OF YHWH THAT IS COMING COME ON ISRAEL WILL BE A DAY OF
DARKNESS, NOT LIGHT (AMOS 5:18).
Amos 5:18
‘Woe to you who desire the day of YHWH! Why would you have the day
of YHWH? It is darkness,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
Amos 5:16. Therefore] if ye seek not God, there will be lamentation
not only by professional mourners, but in the streets of the city, in
all towns of the kingdom, and in places whe...
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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...
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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...
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Ezekiel 34:12; Isaiah 13:10; Job 10:21; Job 10:22; Job 3:4;...