Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Amos 6:3
Ye — That flatter yourselves the day of darkness foretold, is far off. The seat — The judgment seat which should relieve the oppressed, is made a seat of violence.
Ye — That flatter yourselves the day of darkness foretold, is far off. The seat — The judgment seat which should relieve the oppressed, is made a seat of violence.
Verse Amos 6:3. _YE THAT PUT FAR AWAY THE EVIL DAY_] Wo to you who will not consider the day of approaching vengeance; but continue in your iniquity, and harden your hearts. Ye bring your iniquities n...
YE THAT PUT FAR AWAY - Probably “with aversion.” They bade that day as it were, be gone. The Hebrew idiom expresses, how they would put it off, if they could; as far as in them lay, they “assigned a d...
CHAPTER 6 The Fourth Discourse _ 1. Woe to them that are at ease in Zion (Amos 6:1) _ 2. The punishment announced (Amos 6:7) Amos 6:1. This woe concerns the great men, the chiefs of the nation, who...
THE LUXURY OF ISRAEL'S RULERS. Extravagance in ritual often indicates a perverted sense of what constitutes a true philosophy of life. The price of luxury is far greater than men realise. The prophet...
PUT. thrust. THE EVIL DAY. the day of calamity. Hebrew. _ra'a_. App-44. Compare Amos 3:6; Amos 5:13; Amos 5:9; Amos 5:10 SEAT or throne...
_Ye that put far away the evil day_ Probably, with aversion: cf. the use of the word in Isaiah 66:5. They feel themselves secure against coming disaster (Amos 9:10), and will not hear of it, while at...
The luxury and indifference of the leaders of the nation....
_AT EASE IN ZION -- AMOS 6:1-4:_ The national leaders in Israel felt safe and at ease in Zion or Jerusalem and on the mountain of Samaria. However, these notable men of Israel were in trouble. Very gr...
RIGHTEOUSNESS DEMANDS REPENTANCELUXURY LEADS TO INDOLENCE TEXT: Amos 6:1-8 1 Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and to them that are secure in the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chi...
Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near; YE THAT PUT FAR AWAY THE EVIL DAY, AND CAUSE THE SEAT OF VIOLENCE TO COME NEAR - "put far away," literally, with aver...
THE FOURTH ADDRESS 1-3. False security of Judah and Israel. 4-6. Carelessness and luxury. 7-11. Captivity, siege, death, ruin. 12, 13. Preposterous errors. 14. The coming of the avenger. 1, 2. Re...
THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 6 GOD WILL CAUSE THE GOOD TIMES IN ISRAEL TO END V1 Oh, it will be very bad for you people in *Zion. You do not think t...
FAR AWAY. — They choose to think that the day of reckoning is far off, and cling yet closer to their habits of defrauding the poor at the seat of judgment. (Comp. Ezekiel 12:21.)...
הַֽ מְנַדִּ֖ים לְ יֹ֣ום רָ֑ע וַ תַּגִּישׁ֖וּן
3. "AT EASE IN ZION" Amos 6:1 The evil of the national worship was the false political confidence which it engendered. Leaving the ritual alone, Amos now proceeds to assault this confidence. We are t...
“WOE TO THEM THAT ARE AT EASE IN ZION!” Amos 6:1-14 Zion is included with Samaria in this prophecy and the nobles are especially condemned for their drunkenness, gluttony, and insolence. The prophet...
From the formalists the prophet turned toward those who had lost all sense of the spiritual and the moral, and were indifferent, those were ''at ease in Zion," and "secure upon the mountains of Samari...
Ye that put far away the (d) evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near; (d) You that continue still in your wickedness, and think that God's plagues are not at hand, but give yourselves t...
_Separated. Hebrew, "remove the evil day," as if it would not overtake you, Ezechiel xii. 22. Septuagint, "who are praying (Calmet) or coming (Grabe) to the evil day, approaching and touching false sa...
What is here said of Zion, in the days of the Prophet Amos, is equally applicable to the Church in all days. There is nothing more foreign to a state of grace, than a state of ease in the world. For w...
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 here reproves the Jews and Israelites for another crime, — that they had often provoked God’s wrath, and ceased not by their sins to call forth new punishments, and in the meantime rejecte...
Chapter 6 dwells upon the false confidence that deceived the heads of Israel. A similar judgment to that of Calneh and Hamath might fall upon Israel. Their chief men gave themselves up to luxury, as t...
YE THAT PUT FAR AWAY THE EVIL DAY,.... The day of Israel's captivity, threatened by, the Lord, and prophesied of by the prophets; by this prophet, and by Hoshea and others: this they endeavoured to pu...
Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near; Ver. 3. _Ye that put far away the evil day_] Woe to you that would do so if you could; that fondly persuade yourselves...
_Ye that put far away the evil day_ Ye who persuade yourselves that God's judgments will not overtake you so soon as the predictions of the prophet import. _And cause the seat of violence to come near...
Ye that put far away the evil day, refusing to believe that a day of reckoning is near, AND CAUSE THE SEAT OF VIOLENCE TO COME NEAR, so that violence and oppression come ever nearer to them, that they...
THE PEOPLE GUILTY OF SECURITY AND LUXURY...
SEAT: Or, habitation WE MAY NOT MAKE MENTION: Or, they will not, or have not...
1-7 Those are looked upon as doing well for themselves, who do well for their bodies; but we are here told what their ease is, and what their woe is. Here is a description of the pride, security, and...
Woe to you that flatter yourselves that the day of darkness and misery foretold is far off! SEE POOLE ON "EZEKIEL 12:27". These were great ones too, that the prophet here threateneth, who thus postpon...
Amos 6:3 off H5077 (H8764) day H3117 doom H7451 seat H7675 (H8800) violence H2555 near H5066 ...
THE SECOND WOE ON THOSE WHO COMPLACENTLY RELAXED, DEPENDING ON YHWH'S PROTECTION, WHILE THEY ALSO TOTALLY IGNORED HIS REQUIREMENTS (AMOS 6:1). While Amos's mission was to Israel he never overlooked th...
Amos was a herdsman, and a gatherer of sycamore fruit. His words are rugged, but sometimes he rises to sublimity. His expressions are somewhat dark, and not readily to be understood; but when we learn...
CONTENTS: Woe pronounced upon those at ease in sin abandoned by God. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Many are puffed up and rocked to sleep in carnal security by the position they occupy in the...
Amos 6:1. _The mountain of Samaria._ This city was built on a hill, like Zion, to make it impregnable. See note on Isaiah 28:1. Amos 6:2. _Calneh,_ or Ctesiphon. It was situate almost opposite Seleuci...
_Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near._ MAN’ S EVIL DAY I. All men have an evil day in their future. Calamities and trials are common to all. There is one e...
CRITICAL NOTES.] AMOS 6:2. PASS] Survey three neighbouring kingdoms. “If these kingdoms are not _better_ and _greater_ than yours, why do ye worship _their_ gods and forsake the _true_ God?” [_Elzas_...
EXPOSITION AMOS 6:1 With a second woe the prophet denounces the chiefs of the whole nation, who were quite satisfied with the present state of things, and, revelling in luxury, feared no coming judg...
Shall we turn in our Bibles to Amos chapter 6. The Northern Kingdom of Israel has become apostate. They are living in luxury, carelessness, indifference towards God, when suddenly their peace is distu...
1 Thessalonians 5:3; 2 Peter 3:4; Amos 5:18; Amos 9:10; Amos 5:12;...