Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Amos 1:11
Pursue — Watched for, and laid hold on every occasion to oppress Israel. Did tear — As a ravenous and fierce lion tears the prey.
Pursue — Watched for, and laid hold on every occasion to oppress Israel. Did tear — As a ravenous and fierce lion tears the prey.
Verse Amos 1:11. _FOR THREE TRANSGRESSIONS OF EDOM_] That the _Edomites_ (notwithstanding what _Calmet_ observes above of the _brotherly_ _covenant_) were always implacable enemies of the Jews, is we...
EDOM - God had impressed on Israel its relation of brotherhood to Edom. Moses expressed it to Edom himself , and, after the suspicious refusal of Edom to allow Israel to march on the highway through h...
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 ...
AMOS 1:9 F. ON TYRE. Possibly an exilic or post-exilic insertion. The mention of the Phœ nicians would not evoke such hostile feelings, but they too had repeatedly perpetrated crimes that called aloud...
EDOM. Compare Isaiah 21:11. Amo 34:5.Jeremiah 49:8, &c. Ezekiel 25:12; Ezekiel 35:2.
EDOM. The home of the Edomites was S. of the Dead Sea, immediately on the E. of the deep depression, which extends from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Akabah, in ancient times the S. part of the -Arábah...
_because he did pursue his brother with the sword_ Edom and Israel are frequently spoken of as -brethren" (Deuteronomy 2:4; Deuteronomy 23:7; Obadiah 1:10;...
_TRANSGRESSIONS OF TYRUS AND EDOM -- AMOS 1:9-12:_ The Lord promises to punish Tyrus or Phoenicia for countless sins or transgressions. Nations that live beside each other must be brotherly in order t...
PUNISHMENT PROMISED, THE HEATHENNATIONSEDOM AND MOAB TEXT: Amos 1:11-15 11 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Edom, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because...
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his...
1:11 pity; (h-30) Lit. 'destroyed his mercies.'...
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...
CURSE ON EDOM. (11) EDOM. — Comp. the prophecy of Obadiah and Isaiah 34:5. See also _Dict. of the Bible,_ art. “Edom.” All through their history Edom sided with the enemies of Israel. (Comp. 1 Samuel...
כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה עַל ־שְׁלֹשָׁה֙ פִּשְׁעֵ֣י...
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...
JUDAH SHALL BE JUDGED ALSO Amos 1:11-15; Amos 2:1-5 _Edom_ was Esau; that is, the people were closely akin to Israel; perhaps for that very reason the hatred on either side became more and more invet...
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...
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his...
_Sword. Edom was subdued by David, and remained tributary till Joram. It attempted to recover its liberty under Josaphat, though the Hebrew text have improperly Aram, 2 Paralipomenon xx. 2, 23. The tw...
Edom, that is the descendants of Esau, now come in for their ac-count. Never surely was there ever a more bitter hatred and animosity, and that descending from father to son, than what Esau's children...
The Chapter closeth with the judgment of the children of Ammon; and a solemn one it is. When the Lord comes to reckon with his enemies, how tremendous his judgments are! REFLECTIONS READER! we shall...
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...
The Prophet now passes to the Idumeans themselves. He had denounced ruin on the uncircumcised nations who delivered up the Jews into their hands: but they deserved a much heavier punishment, because t...
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,...
THUS SAITH THE LORD FOR THREE TRANSGRESSIONS OF EDOM,.... Or the Edomites, the posterity of Esau, whose name was Edom, so called from the red pottage he sold his birthright for to his brother Jacob:...
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his...
Amos 1:6-13. The injuriousness and cruelty of the Philistines, Tyrians, and Edomites, towards the children of Israel, that is here spoken of, and for which God's judgments are, by the prophet, denounc...
_For three transgressions of Edom_, &c. The Edomites, or Idumeans, are often threatened for their enmity against the Israelites, because they took all occasions to oppress and insult over them in thei...
Thus saith the Lord, For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof, refusing, also in this instance, to give them any consideration after once their doom...
AGAINST TYRE, EDOM, AND AMMON...
CAST OFF ALL PITY: _ Heb._ corrupted his compassions...
THREE TRANSGRESSIONS: see AMOS 1:3. EDOM: see AMOS 1:6. I WILL NOT TURN AWAY THE PUNISHMENT THEREOF: see AMOS 1:3. _He did pursue_; watch for and lay hold on every occasion to oppress Israel. HIS BROT...
Amos 1:11 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 three H7969 transgressions H6588 Edom H123 four H702 away H7725 ...
4). YHWH'S JUDGMENT ON EDOM (AMOS 1:11). Philistia, Tyre and Edom were clearly joined together in a carefully organised slave-trading cartel, but note the growth in relative guilt as one follows the...
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...
_For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof._ EDOM 1. A threatening. Here a certain number is put for an uncertain. It may be treated jointly. Three a...
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 1:11 EDOM was southeast of Judah, around the southern end of the Dead Sea. Descended from Esau, the Edomites were longtime enemies of Israel (Numbers 20:14
CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 1:11. Edom] No particular crime, but implacable hatred charged, which broke out into acts of cruelty. THE JUDGMENT OF EDOM.—_Amos 1:11_ Edom and the two following nations were...
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 Chronicles 28:17; Deuteronomy 2:4; Deuteronomy 23:7; Ecclesiastes 7:9;...