With leaven — As all the rest of your will — worship, so this also is against the express law, Leviticus 2:11. However, do so at your peril, try whether it will end in good. Proclaim — Publickly persuaded your people to voluntary sacrifices.
Verse Amos 4:5. _OVER A SACRIFICE OF THANKSGIVING_] To the senseless _metal_, and the unfeeling _stock_ and _stone_ images, from which ye never did, and never could receive any help. Proceed yet fart...
AND OFFER A SACRIFICE OF THANKSGIVING WITH LEAVEN - But amid this boastful service, all was self-will. In little or great, the calf-worship at Bethel, or the use of leaven in the sacrifice, they did a...
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...
OFFER. SACRIFICES. offer as incense. Hebrew katar. App-43. Ref to Pentateuch (Leviticus 7:13; Leviticus 23:17). App-92. Compare Psalms 56:12.
_offer_ MAKE INTO SWEET SMOKE (the Homeric κνίση, _Il._I. 319), a term used technically of the consumption of sacrifices upon the altar (Leviticus 1:9, &c.). The idea is that of a repast: comp. Genesi...
Here the people at large are addressed by the prophet, perhaps at some festal religious gathering....
_COME TO BETHEL AND GILGAL AND SIN -- AMOS 4:4-5:_ When God invited the people to come to Bethel and Gilgal He did not invite them to come there for worship. Bethel was one of the places where the cal...
REASON CALLS FOR REPENTANCE GOD'S HOLINESS DEMANDS PUNISHMENT FOR EVIL TEXT: Amos 4:1-5 1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, that crush t...
And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD. AND OFFER - literally, burn incens...
4:5 burn (e-2) 'Burn as incense.' see Leviticus 1:9 ....
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...
The margin is more correct, and gives the key to the passage. Render, _and offer by burning your thank-offering of leaven._ Leaven was not allowed in any sacrifice offered by fire. Amos ironically cal...
וְ קַטֵּ֤ר מֵֽ חָמֵץ֙ תֹּודָ֔ה וְ קִרְא֥וּ
THE FALSE PEACE OF RITUAL Amos 4:4 THE next four groups of oracles- Amos 4:4; Amos 5:1; Amos 5:6.-treat of many different details, and each of them has its own emphas
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...
CIVILIZATION AND JUDGMENT Amos 3:1 - Amos 4:3 WE now enter the Second Section of the Book of Amos: Chapter s 3-6. It is a collection of various oracles of denunciation, grouped partly by the recurre...
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...
And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving (f) with leaven, and proclaim [and] publish the free offerings: for this (g) liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD. (f) As (Leviticus 7:13). ...
With. Hebrew mechamets, (Haydock) also "without leaven." It was expressly forbidden, (Leviticus ii. 11.) though not in the first fruits, Leviticus xxiii. 17. --- It, to beg that God would remember you...
It should seem that in the midst of all their transgressions they still carried on a shew of religion. Like their idolatrous neighbours around, they would not be totally void of some form of worship,...
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...
_And burn incense with the leaven of thank offering _He speaks of peace-offerings; sacrifices of thanksgiving were wont to be offered with leaven; but with other sacrifices they presented cakes and un...
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...
AND OFFER A SACRIFICE OF THANKSGIVING WITH LEAVEN,.... Which some observe was contrary to the law, which forbids all leaven in a meat offering; or "burning" it in any offering, Leviticus 2:11; which t...
And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim [and] publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD. Ver. 5. _And offer a sacrifice of t...
_Come to Beth-el_ The known place of the calf-worship; _and transgress_ A strong irony, giving them over as incorrigible: like that of Ezekiel 20:39, _Go ye, serve every man his idols. At Gilgal multi...
DENUNCIATION OF THE OUTSTANDING VICES...
and offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, Cf Leviticus 7:12, AND PROCLAIM AND PUBLISH THE FREE OFFERINGS, making a great show of their religious fervor; FOR THIS LIKETH YOU, this they delight...
OFFER A SACRIFICE: _ Heb._ offer by burning THIS LIKETH: _ Heb._ so ye love...
1-5 What is got by extortion is commonly used to provide for the flesh, and to fulfil the lusts thereof. What is got by oppression cannot be enjoyed with satisfaction. How miserable are those whose co...
OFFER A SACRIFICE OF THANKSGIVING WITH LEAVEN; as all the rest of your will-worship, so this also is against the express law, LEVITICUS 2:11, but yet you will persist in it; and do so at your peril, t...
Amos 4:5 Offer H6999 (H8763) thanksgiving H8426 leaven H2557 Proclaim H7121 (H8798) announce H8085 (H8685) offerings...
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...
ORACLE OF WARNING TO ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL (AMOS 4:4). Amos constantly attacks Israel on two major subjects, false worship and social injustice. In Amos 4:1 he has attacked social injustice. Now...
THANKSGIVING (_ See Scofield) - (Leviticus 7:13). _...
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...
_Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression._ ILL-SPENT SERVICE I. The scenes of this idolatry. “Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression.” Idolatry was...
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...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 4:4 With bitter sarcasm, Amos criticizes religious activity at BETHEL and GILGAL (see Joshua 4:20;...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 4:4. Gilgal] The scene of idolatry. MULTIPLY] Irony. Since you will not be reformed, go on, try whether God likes your sacrifices; eager as you are in worship, you will not pre...
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 Thessalonians 2:10; Deuteronomy 12:6; Deuteronomy 12:7; Hosea 9:1;...