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Amos 2:11-12

Further marks of God's favour. He had not only bestowed on them material blessings; He had provided also for their moral and spiritual needs: He had raised up among them prophets to declare His will, and Nazirites to be examples of abstemious and godly living. But they had refused to listen to either.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND I RAISED UP OF YOUR SONS FOR PROPHETS - Amos turns from outward mercies to inward, front past to present, from miracles of power to miracles of grace. God’s past mercies live on in those of today;...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 2 _ 1. Moab (Amos 2:1) _ 2. Judah (Amos 2:4) 3. Israel (Amos 2:6) Amos 2:1. So fierce was the hatred of Moab that they dishonored the bo

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SIN AND DOOM OF ISRAEL. Suddenly the prophet turns and confronts Israel. The benighted heathen nations have sinned and must be punished. What of Israel, God's chosen people? Why, just because they...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    I RAISED UP, &C. Not till the priests had failed in their duty to teach the law. See Leviticus 10:8; Leviticus 10:11.Deuteronomy 33:8;...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _MORE ABOUT ISRAEL'S TRANSGRESSIONS -- AMOS 2:11-16:_ God raised up some of the sons of the children of Israel to be prophets. Some of the young men dedicated themselves to be Nazirites. Prophets stoo...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PUNISHMENT PROMISED, THE COVENANT NATIONSISRAEL TEXT: Amos 2:9-12 9 Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I des...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD. AND I RAISED UP OF YOUR SONS FOR PROPHETS, AND OF YOUR...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    2:11 saith (c-26) See Isaiah 1:24 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    ISRAEL'S SINS AND INGRATITUDE 6-8. Israel is now threatened in the same form as the rest, but Amos 2:6 were not spoken by Amos at Bethel; they form the conclusion of the preface which he wrote after...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 2 PUNISHMENT FOR MOAB’S PEOPLE V1 This is what the *Lord says: ‘I will certainly punish the people in Moab for their man...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    God added to the mercies of His providence, the transcendent blessings of special revelation. The prophets of Israel were numerous, and renowned, and exposed to frequent persecution, _e.g.,_ the cases...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וָ אָקִ֤ים מִ בְּנֵיכֶם֙ לִ נְבִיאִ֔ים וּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    ATROCITIES AND ATROCITIES Amos 1:3 - Amos 2:1 LIKE all the prophets of Israel, Amos receives oracles for foreign nations. Unlike them, however, he arranges these oracles not after, but before, his in...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    NEITHER SHALL ISRAEL ESCAPE Amos 2:6-16 First the prophet enumerates Israel's sins. They were unjust to the poor, carrying their extortions to such lengths as to goad the poor to desperation. They we...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Having thus uttered the word of God concerning the surrounding nations, thereby revealing the fact of His government over all, the prophet turned to Judah, and declared that she also was to share the...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of (i) your young men for Nazarites. [Is it] not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD. (i) You condemned my benefits, and abused my graces...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Nazarites. Some went secretly to Jerusalem for this purpose; or perhaps they performed these rites illegally at Bethel: for many parts of the law were observed, though not perfectly, chap iv. 4. The...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The Lord having reckoned with all the neighboring nations, Israel's sworn foes, and having also begun with Judah, now takes in hand her sister Israel. And a solemn account it is. Chiefly beginning in...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    He now subjoins, _I have raised from your sons Prophets, and Nazarites from your young or strong men, _(for בחרים, _becharim_, as we have elsewhere said, are called by the Hebrews chosen men;) then fr...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 AND 2. In the outset Jehovah, proclaiming His own rights from the place of His own throne, roars from Zion and utters His voice from Jerusalem. Afterwards,...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND I RAISED UP OF YOUR SONS FOR PROPHETS,.... Such as Moses, Joshua, and the seventy elders, and others; not only to foretell things to come, but to teach and instruct the people in the doctrines and...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. [Is it] not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD. Ver. 11. _And I raised up your sons for prophets_] The...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _I raised up your sons for prophets_ Such were Moses, Joshua, Samuel, and many others; _and of your young men for Nazarites_ Who, by devoting themselves to my service in a peculiar manner, and by obse...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And I raised up of your sons for prophets, a distinction which they had evidently not appreciated, AND OF YOUR YOUNG MEN FOR NAZARITES, this also being a special favor which the Israelites had despise...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AGAINST ISRAEL...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    9-16 We need often to be reminded of the mercies we have received; which add much to the evil of the sins we have committed. They had helps for their souls, which taught them how to make good use of...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    I RAISED UP; gave prophetic endowments, stirred up their minds, commissioned them to prophesy, and carried them through by an undaunted courage given to them, that they, should not fear to set upon, o...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Amos 2:11 up H6965 (H8686) sons H1121 prophets H5030 men H970 Nazirites H5139 children H1121 Israel H3478 Says...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THEY HAD TRANSGRESSED IN SPITE OF ALL THAT YHWH HAD DONE FOR THEM (AMOS 2:9). YHWH then described how great their debt was to Him. The land over which they were transgressing was the very land which H...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH'S JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL (AMOS 2:6). While this judgment on Israel certainly initially follows the previous sevenfold pattern it is distinctive in that it manifestly then goes on to break it. There i...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Judgments pronounced upon Judah, Moab and Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Amos. CONCLUSION: To keep not the commandments of God's Word, making no conscience of them, is to despise the wisdom, jus...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Amos 2:2. _Kirioth,_ a city of Moab, having palaces. Jeremiah 48:24. Amos 2:6. _For three transgressions of Israel._ This phrase, explained in Amos 1:3, is repeate

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites._ DIVINE APPOINTMENTS AND THEIR FRUSTRATION The sin and folly of their conduct is manifest when we consider-- I. The a...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks._ SIN AS INGRATITUDE These verses form a graphic resume of the great benefits w...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 2:6 In the introduction to this section (Amos 2:6), Amos shows that Israel, far from being better than its neighbors, is even more worthy of condemnation. This is followed by four ex...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 2:6. ISRAEL] The ten tribes the main object of the prophecy. First, prevalent crimes of injustice and oppression, shameless immorality, and daring contempt of God. AMOS 2:6. SO...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION AMOS 2:1 Judgment on Moab. AMOS 2:1 MOAB. The prophet now denounces the other nation connected by ties of blood with Israel (see on Amos 1:13). Moab's hostility

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Let's turn now to the book of Amos. In the first verse of Amos he introduces himself. These are the words of Amos, who was among the herdmen [or a shepherd] at Tekoa (Amos 1:1), Now Tekoa is a little...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 17:1; 1 Kings 18:4; 1 Kings 19:16; 1 Kings 20:13; 1 Kings 2

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Nazarites — Persons who bound themselves to a very sober and holy life; either for some certain time, or for their whole life....

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