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Verse Amos 5:27. _WILL I CAUSE YOU TO GO INTO CAPTIVITY BEYOND
DAMASCUS_] That is, into _Assyria_, the way to which, from Judea, was
by Damascus.
But St. _Stephen_ says, Acts 7:43, _beyond Babylon_;...
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THEREFORE - (And) this being so, such having been their way from the
beginning until now, will I cause you to go into captivity beyond
Damascus Syria was the most powerful enemy by whom God had hereto...
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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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BEYOND DAMASCUS. In Acts 7:43 beyond Babylon, which was of course
"beyond Damascus", and included it, showing what was in the Divine
purpose in the words of Jehovah (Amos 5:27) by Amos. Moreover, the...
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_But ye_ SHALL TAKE UP SAKKUTH YOUR KING, _and_ KAIWÂN _your images,
the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves;_ AND I WILL _cause
you to go into_ EXILE _beyond Damascus, saith_ JEHOVAH] You a...
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_WHAT THE LORD DEMANDS -- AMOS 5:21-27 _ The children of Israel
stilled assembled before God to conduct solemn assemblies or religious
celebrations. Sadly, God took no delight in their times of worshi...
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BEYOND DAMASCUS— The way into Assyria, whither the ten tribes were
conveyed, was by Damascus. Amos does not expressly declare into what
place the Israelites were to be removed; he only foretels that t...
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HAVE YE OFFERED UNTO ME, &C.— See the note on Deuteronomy 12:8.
Jeremiah 7:22. These verses have made some people think that the
Israelites, in their forty years' wanderings through the wilderness,
co...
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RIGHTEOUSNESS DEMANDS REPENTANCERID RELIGION OF HYPOCRISY
TEXT: Amos 5:21-27
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I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your
solemn assemblies.
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Yea, though ye offer me you...
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Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,
saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
THEREFORE WILL I CAUSE YOU TO GO INTO CAPTIVITY BEYOND DAMASCUS. In
it is "beyond Ba...
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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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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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וְ הִגְלֵיתִ֥י אֶתְכֶ֖ם מֵ הָ֣לְאָה
לְ דַמָּ֑
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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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_Damacus, or Babylon, (Acts vii.) into Mesopotamia, &c. The sense is
the same. (Calmet) --- When the apostles quote passages, "they do not
consider the words but the sense." (St. Jerome) --- One Greek...
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We have here the Lord's threatenings concerning the captivity of the
people, and which we know came to pass. Stephen, the first martyr,
made a quotation from this scripture. Acts 7:42. But what I
part...
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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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Here the Prophet at last denounces exile on the Israelites as though
he had said that God would not suffer them any longer to contaminate
the Holy Land, which had been given them as an heritage, on th...
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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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THEREFORE WILL I CAUSE YOU TO GO INTO CAPTIVITY BEYOND DAMASCUS,....
The chief city of Syria; and which, as Aben Ezra says, lay to the east
of the land of Israel, and was a very strong and fortified p...
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Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith
the LORD, whose name [is] The God of hosts.
Ver. 27. _Therefore will cause you_] Idolatry is a land desolating
sin.
_ Beyond Dam...
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_Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,
saith the Lord, whose name is_, &c. Ye shall be removed further from
your own country, than when Hazael, king of Syria, carried away s...
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Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, in
the power of a mighty Eastern nation, SAITH THE LORD, WHOSE NAME IS
THE GOD OF HOSTS. The last words were employed by Stephen in his...
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WOE UPON FOOLS AND HYPOCRITES...
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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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THEREFORE, for all your idolatry and other sins in which you have
obstinately continued, WILL I CAUSE YOU TO GO INTO CAPTIVITY; you
shall certainly be subdued and captivated; and this shall be done so...
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Amos 5:27 captivity H1540 (H8689) beyond H1973 Damascus H1834 Says
H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 name H8034 God...
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THE DAY OF DARKNESS IS COMING BECAUSE OF THE FALSITY OF THEIR WORSHIP
IN THAT WHILE THEY WORSHIP THEY IGNORE JUSTICE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS (AMOS
5:21).
Amos now emphatically brings out where their error l...
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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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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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AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 5:27 EXILE BEYOND DAMASCUS is exactly what
happened (2 Kings 17:6). This is a startling prediction, since Assyria
was comparatively weak in Amos’s time....
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
Amos 5:25. Have] Lit. _Did ye_, equivalent to denial, some; others,
not entire suspension of sacrifice, but mixed with idolatry. From of
old they had been recreant to God. Their pres...
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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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Therefore — For all your idolatry and other sins, in which you have
obstinately continued....