Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Amos 6:5
That chant — That in a time of deep mourning entertain themselves with songs, and musical instruments.
That chant — That in a time of deep mourning entertain themselves with songs, and musical instruments.
Verse Amos 6:5. _AND INVENT TO THEMSELVES INSTRUMENTS OF MUSIC, LIKE_ _DAVID_] 2 Chronicles 23:5; and _see especially Clarke's note on "_2 Chronicles 29:25_"_. I believe that David was n...
THAT CHANT TO THE VOICE OF THE LYRE - Accompanying “the voice of the lyre” with the human voice; giving vocal expression and utterance to what the instrumental music spoke without words. The word, whi...
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...
CHANT. break out [in song]. Hebrew. _parat._ Occurs only here. INSTRUMENTS OF MUSIC. instruments of song LIKE DAVID. as David did...
The luxury and indifference of the leaders of the nation....
_chant_ IMPROVISE IDLY. The word (_pâraṭ_) occurs only here; and its meaning is uncertain: but (if the text be correct) this on the whole is the most probable rendering: see the Additional Note, p. 23...
_EVIL IS STRONGLY CONDEMNED -- AMOS 6:5-7:_ God told the people, "You sing foolish songs to the music of harps." He also said, "Like David they invent for themselves instruments of music." This verse...
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...
That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David; THAT CHANT - [ paaraT (H6527)], literally, mark distinct sounds and tones. The corresponding Arabic...
CHANT] RV 'sing idle songs' is an improvement. The musicians were lazy triflers. INVENT TO THEMSELVES, etc.] In the psalm which closes the Greek Psalter, David is made to assert: 'My hands fashioned a...
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...
CHANT. — The original Hebrew only occurs in this passage, and is best rendered _prattle,_ or _jabber._ The comparison with David is ironical He made these instruments to please the Lord, these princes...
הַ פֹּרְטִ֖ים עַל ־פִּ֣י הַ נָּ֑בֶל כְּ
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...
That chant to the sound of the viol, [and] invent to themselves instruments of musick, like (e) David; (e) As he caused different types of instruments to be made to serve God's glory, so these did st...
_David. They think they excel him in music; but he consecrated his talent to a better purpose. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "they deemed them stable, and not fugitive things." (Haydock) --- They have plac...
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 word פרט, _pereth, _means to divide; so some explain it, and derive it from the clusters which remain after the vintage, because there are not then thick grapes, but a cluster here and there, and...
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...
THAT CHANT TO THE SOUND OF THE VIOL,.... Or psaltery; an instrument of twelve cords, and that gave twelve sounds, as Josephus x says, being stricken with the fingers; and to these sounds these men cha...
That chant to the sound of the viol, [and] invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David; Ver. 5. That chant (or quaver) to the sound of the viol] That sing division with much variation of t...
_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...
that chant to the sound of the viol, in quavering and silly songs, AND INVENT TO THEMSELVES INSTRUMENTS OF MUSIC, LIKE DAVID, but only for the gratification of their own vanity and sensuality, instead...
THE PEOPLE GUILTY OF SECURITY AND LUXURY...
CHANT: Or, quaver...
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 them that, in a time of deepest morning, do entertain themselves with songs, and with greatest skill sing to their musical instruments, as if they had no greater thing to mind! VIOL; or lute, o...
Amos 6:5 sing H6527 (H8802) sound H6310 instruments H5035 invent H2803 (H8804) musical H7892 instruments H3627 David...
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...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 6:4 Instead of grieving over their sins, the wealthy Israelites were treating themselves to the very best of life’s pleasures. It was these people whom the Assyrians would take first...
CRITICAL NOTES.] AMOS 6:4.] Luxury added to oppression. STRETCH] Lit. pour themselves out, “dissolved, unnerved, in luxury and sloth.” BEDS] inlaid with ivory. LAMBS] Choice and delicious in the East...
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 Chronicles 23:5; 1 Peter 4:3; Amos 5:23; Amos 8:3; Ecclesiastes 2:8;...