Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Amos 4:10
Your horses — The riders being killed. The stink — So great slaughter hath been made in your camp that there were not sufficient to bury the slain.
Your horses — The riders being killed. The stink — So great slaughter hath been made in your camp that there were not sufficient to bury the slain.
Verse Amos 4:10. _I HAVE SENT - THE PESTILENCE_] After the _blasting_ and the _mildew_, the _pestilence_ came; and it acted among them as one of the _plagues_ of Egypt. Besides this, he had suffered...
I HAVE SENT AMONG YOU THE PESTILENCE AFTER THE MANNER OF EGYPT - that is, after the way in which God had dealt with Egypt . God had twice promised, when the memory of the plagues which He sent on Egyp...
CHAPTER 4 The Second Discourse _ 1. Divine threatening and irony (Amos 4:1) _ 2. Yet have ye not returned unto Me (Amos 4:6) 3. Prepare to meet thy God (Amos 4:12)...
ISRAEL'S DENSENESS. What is the real cause of conduct that merits such punishment? At the root of all the evil is a sham religion, a religion which in its mere formality and gross corruption has degen...
I HAVE SENT, &c. Ref to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:25.Deuteronomy 28:21; Deuteronomy 28:27; Deuteronomy 28:60).
Pestilence and the sword. By the pestilence (_déber_) is meant what we should term an epidemic accompanied by great mortality, such as under the insalubrious sanitary conditions of Eastern life, are o...
The five unheeded chastisements which have passed over Israel. The description of each ends with the pathetic refrain, indicating its failure to produce the desired effect, "Yet have ye not returned u...
Here the people at large are addressed by the prophet, perhaps at some festal religious gathering....
_YOU HAVE NOT RETURNED TO GOD -- AMOS 4:6-11:_ Five times the Lord described efforts He had made to rescue Israel from sin. But each time He said, "Yet you did not return to me," or "still you rejecte...
REASON CALLS FOR REPENTANCECHASTENING IN THE PAST SHOULD MAKE THEM THINK TEXT: Amos 4:6-11 6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places; y...
And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. I ALSO HAVE GIVEN YOU. Yahweh details His seve...
AFTER THE MANNER OF EGYPT] 'Life and death march in “double companies” through Egypt. All epidemics revel here.' 2 Kings 13:7 is an illustration of the loss of horses. We are to think of the people as...
THE SECOND ADDRESS 1-3. The heartless luxury of the rich women. 4, 5. The elaborate sacrifices and pilgrimages. 6-12. The failure of God's chastisements to produce amendment. 1. These pampered wome...
THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 4 THE WOMEN WHO LOVE LUXURY V1 Listen to this, you cows of Bashan, who live on the mountains of Samaria. You hurt poor...
WITH THE CAPTIVITY OF YOUR HORSES. — This, the marginal reading, is more exact. Egypt is the birthplace of the plague or black death, and the circumstances augmenting its horror are here terribly port...
שִׁלַּ֨חְתִּי בָכֶ֥ם דֶּ֨בֶר֙ בְּ דֶ֣רֶךְ מִצְרַ֔יִם...
1. FOR WORSHIP, CHASTISEMENT Amos 4:4 In chapter 2 Amos contrasted the popular conception of religion as worship with God's-conception of it as history. He placed a picture of the sanctuary, hot with...
CALAMITIES ARE GOD'S WARNINGS Amos 4:1-11 Speaking after the imagery of his vocation, Amos the herdsman compares the rich and powerful of Samaria, who were living in luxury and wantonness, to the kin...
The second discourse consists of Jehovah's summons to the people. It commences with a severe and terrible indictment of the women. He addressed them as "Ye kine of Bashan," which reveals the degradati...
I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of (l) Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto...
_Egypt, as I published the Egyptians, (Calmet) or the Hebrews, when they came thence, and wished to return. (Chaldean; St. Cyril) --- Horses. I have deprived you of them, (Haydock) under Achab and Joa...
Here we have an account of the Lord's sore judgments upon Israel; by famine, by withholding the fruits of the earth, and by marking his judgments in a distinguishing manner, causing it to rain upon on...
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...
God now expostulates with the people, because their perverseness had not been subdued even by additional punishments; for he had in vain exhorted and stimulated them to repentance. He says, that they...
Chapter 4 presents the oppression of the poor, and the worship which the children of Israel rendered at will in the places they had chosen. God also would act as He saw fit. He had indeed already done...
I HAVE SENT AMONG YOU THE PESTILENCE, AFTER THE MANNER OF EGYPT,.... Like that which was sent among the firstborn of Egypt, and cut them off in one night; or when in the way of Egypt, as the Targum; e...
I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto you...
_I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt_ I have sent such pestilence among you as I formerly sent upon Egypt: Or, such as has frequently taken place in Egypt. “The unwholesome...
I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt, so called because it was prevalent in that country; YOUR YOUNG MEN HAVE I SLAIN WITH THE SWORD, especially when the Israelites suffered...
VARIOUS PUNISHMENTS LEADING UP TO THE LAST JUDGMENT...
AFTER THE MANNER: Or, in the way HAVE TAKEN AWAY YOUR HORSES: _ Heb._ with the captivity of your horses...
6-13 See the folly of carnal hearts; they wander from one creature to another, seeking for something to satisfy, and labour for that which satisfies not; yet, after all, they will not incline their e...
I HAVE SENT; you have died of plague, but I commissioned the disease, I sent it, and it swept you away in such manner that any observant eye might have seen the hand of God against you in it, and migh...
Amos 4:10 sent H7971 (H8765) plague H1698 manner H1870 Egypt H4714 men H970 killed H2026 (H8804) sword...
YHWH FIVE TIMES EXPRESSES HIS CONCERN THAT IN SPITE OF HIS JUDGMENTS ISRAEL HAVE NOT RETURNED TO HIM (AMOS 4:6). Having made clear His indictment of the women and men of Israel, both because of social...
TWO INDICTMENTS OF THE PEOPLE WHICH WILL RESULT IN A SERIES OF CHASTISEMENTS (AMOS 4:1). A new oracle now begins with the words ‘hear this word ---' (compare Amos 3:1; Amos 5:1) and consists of indict...
CONTENTS: Threatening against the oppressors in Israel. Israel reminded of God's chastening in the past. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: God designs all His providential rebukes to influence men to tur...
Amos 4:1. _Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan._ The strong bulls of Bashan are celebrated in scripture. Psalms 22:13. _Vaccæ pingues,_ fat cows, haughty women, abandoned to luxurious ease, and who, equ...
_Your young men have I slain with the sword. .. yet have ye not returned unto Me, saith the Lord._ GOD’S DEALINGS WITH US NATIONALLY, AND THEIR OBJECT While we are in this state of trial and probatio...
_And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities._ AFFLICTIONS PROVIDENTIAL There is a material difference between what may be called permissive and active providences; and between su...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 4:1 This second oracle (see note on 2:6–6:14) is composed of three parts. In Amos 4:1, Amos expands somewhat on the points made in...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 4:6. Teeth] Famine, as threatened in the law (Deuteronomy 28:48; Deuteronomy 28:57; cf. 2 Kings 8:1)....
EXPOSITION AMOS 4:1 _§ 2. Second address. The prophet reproves the voluptuous women of Samaria, and fortells their captivity _(Amos 4:1);_ with bitter irony he describes the people's devotion to idol...
Then the Lord says, Hear this word, ye cows of Bashan (Amos 4:1), They worshiped the calf so God calls them a bunch of cows. But because they worshiped the calf, He speaks disdainfully concerning th...
2 Kings 10:32; 2 Kings 13:3; 2 Kings 13:7; 2 Kings 8:12; Amos 8:3;...