Amos 3:2
Know — Chosen, adopted to be my peculiar ones. Therefore — Because you have all these obligations and abused all these mercies.... [ Continue Reading ]
Know — Chosen, adopted to be my peculiar ones. Therefore — Because you have all these obligations and abused all these mercies.... [ Continue Reading ]
Agreed — Can you have God's presence while you walk so contrary to him?... [ Continue Reading ]
Can a bird fall — So here for your sins, God will cast the net over you. Shall one take up a snare — The fowler will not take up the snare, before the prey be taken in it.... [ Continue Reading ]
Afraid — Affected with the danger. Evil — Such as plague or famine. Done it — Either immediately by his own hand, or by the hands of those he employs. Whoever are the instruments, God is the principal agent. Out of his mouth both good and evil proceed.... [ Continue Reading ]
Will do nothing — Usually the Lord doth no great thing for or against his people, without giving warning of it before it comes.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
Publish — Ye prophets invite strangers to come and observe what cause I have to do what I threaten. Tumults — The seditious counsels, and rebellious conspiracies among them. The oppressed — Multitudes of oppressed ones, as the usurpers took it to be their interest to crush all they feared or suspect... [ Continue Reading ]
Store up — As men lay up wealth in their treasures, perverting judgment, first condemning the innocent, next seizing all his substance.... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore — Because of all the violence and rapine with other crying sins. An adversary — The Assyrian. Round about — Shall beset the whole land as one besieged city.... [ Continue Reading ]
As the shepherd — As the shepherd doth hardly rescue a small part of a sheep or lamb from the lion, so a small part of the children of Israel, shall escape when Samaria is taken. The corner of a bed — Lying in some dark corner. Damascus — The chief city of Syria taken by Tiglath — Pilneser about the... [ Continue Reading ]
Hear ye — Prophets. The God of hosts — Who is Lord of all, and hath all power in his hand.... [ Continue Reading ]
Of Israel — The many and great transgressions of the ten tribes.... [ Continue Reading ]
The winter — house — Which probably was in the chief city, whither the great men retired in the winter. The summer — house — The houses of pleasure, where the nobles and rich men spent the summer time. Of ivory — Beautified with ivory.... [ Continue Reading ]