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Verse 13. _THE PRUDENT SHALL KEEP SILENCE_] A wise man will consider
that it is useless to complain. He can have no justice without bribes;
and he has no money to give: consequently, in such an _evil...
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THEREFORE THE PRUDENT SHALL KEEP SILENCE IN THAT TIME - The “time”
may be either the time of the obduracy of the wicked, or that of the
common punishment. For a time may be called “evil,” whether evil...
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CHAPTER 5
The Third Discourse
_ 1. The lamentation (Amos 5:1) _
2. Seek the Lord and ye shall live (Amos 5:4)
3. The wailing (Amos 5:16)
4. The captivity announced ...
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THE IMPENDING PUNISHMENT. The prophet gives his next few words the
form of a dirge (_kî nah_,_ Amos 5:1_). This (Amos 5:2) is
characterised by the peculiar _kî nah-metre_, consisting of three
beats or...
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Therefore, &c. Compare Proverbs 28:11; Proverbs 28:28. an evil time,.
time of calamity. _Hebrew raa'._ App-44. See note on Amos 3:6....
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Israel's desperate moral condition, a justification of the sentence
just pronounced upon it....
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In a time such as that, the prudent man will keep silence; a
complaint, or accusation, or attempt to redress the wrongs which he
sees about him, will be perilous to him, if he be in a good position,
a...
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_CHOOSE GOOD INSTEAD OF EVIL -- AMOS 5:9-15 _ Life is a matter of the
choices that we make. Israel chose to have fair judges and honest
witnesses. Israel did not want to be reminded of her sins so she...
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THEREFORE THE PRUDENT SHALL KEEP SILENCE, &C.— "The prophet who
finds that he shall not be heard, and that his remonstrances will not
be regarded, shall retire, and keep silence till the Lord commands...
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REVELATION CALLS FOR REPENTANCEGOD'S OMNIPOTENCE AND OMNISCIENCE
TEXT: Amos 5:6-13
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Seek Jehovah, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the
house of Joseph, and it devour and there be...
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Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an
evil time.
THEREFORE THE PRUDENT - the spiritually wise.
SHALL KEEP SILENCE IN THAT TIME; FOR IT IS AN EVIL TIME - not mere
sil...
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THE THIRD ADDRESS
1-6. A lament, a warning, and an invitation.
7, 10-20. Denunciation of injustice and oppression, with threats of
pestilence and judgment.
21-27. A repudiation of their attempt to...
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THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD
AMOS
_MARK KIRKPATRICK_
CHAPTER 5
GOD ENCOURAGES ISRAEL’S PEOPLE TO COME BACK TO HIM
V1 People in Israel, listen to this song.
‘This funeral song is ab...
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PRUDENT... SILENCE. — The dumb silence of the prudent is the awful
curse which comes upon a people when they are given up to selfishness
and rapacity. Thus the doom: — “Ephraim is joined to idols, let...
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2. FOR WORSHIP, JUSTICE
Amos 5:1
In the next of these groups of oracles Amos continues his attack on
the national ritual, and now contrasts it with the service of God in
public life-the relief of the...
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“PREPARE TO MEET THY GOD”
Amos 4:12-13; Amos 5:1-15
Worse judgments than those mentioned in the previous verses were in
store but before they are inflicted, the entire nation is summoned to
the divin...
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The third discourse was a description of Jehovah's judgment. This
opened with a lamentation for the virgin of Israel, "The virgin of
Israel is fallen, she shall no more rise, she is cast down upon her...
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Therefore (h) the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it [is]
an evil time.
(h) God will so plague them that they will not allow the godly to open
their mouths once to admonish them of their...
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CHAPTER V.
_ Time. It is to no purpose speaking to the deaf, (Ecclesiasticus
xxxii. 9.) or throwing pearls before swine, Matthew vii. 6. Amos was
silent for a while, till God opened his mouth again,...
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The first verse in this paragraph is a confirmation, if it were
needed, of what I advanced in my observations on the former. Seeking
the Lord, implies the hope of finding him, and indeed the promise i...
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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...
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Some interpreters think that a punishment is here denounced on the
people of Israel, and that is, that the Lord would deprive them of
Prophets and teachers. We indeed know that nothing is more to be
d...
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After having deplored the ruin of Israel, He contrasts the places of
their false worship with Jehovah, the Creator, and exhorts them to
come unto Him and live. But Israel put off the thought of the ev...
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THEREFORE THE PRUDENT SHALL KEEP SILENCE AT THAT TIME,.... Not the
prophets of the Lord, whose business it was at all times to reprove,
and not hold their peace, let the consequence be what it would;...
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Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it [is] an
evil time.
Ver. 13. _Therefore the prudent shall keep silence_] According to
that old and good rule, Either keep silence, or spea...
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_Forasmuch, therefore, as your treading is upon the poor_ It appears
by this, that their acts of oppression were more than ordinarily proud
and tyrannical. They were the effect of fraud executed with...
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Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time, for it is an
evil time, and when things have reached such extremities as here
pictured, all admonitions are futile. Still the love of the prophet...
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WOE UPON FOOLS AND HYPOCRITES...
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7-17 The same almighty power can, for repenting sinners, easily turn
affliction and sorrow into prosperity and joy, and as easily turn the
prosperity of daring sinners into utter darkness. Evil times...
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THEREFORE, because that men are so universally impatient of hearing
reproof, and yet their sins so much abound, and so much deserve
reproof; since they will sooner turn against the speaker, than turn...
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Amos 5:13 prudent H7919 (H8688) silent H1826 (H8799) time H6256 evil
H7451 time H6256
the prudent -...
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THE SECOND INDICTMENT ON ISRAEL AMOS 5:10).
This second indictment is fuller than the first (Amos 5:7), and is
written in chiastic form. Thus:
a It opens with reference to those who reprove or speak...
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A LAMENTATION OVER ISRAEL (AMOS 5:1).
While speaking powerfully Amos had no joy in what was to happen to
Israel, and having pronounced judgment on them, he now laments what
must necessarily be their e...
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Amos 5:4. _For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye
me, and ye shall live:_
And that it just the message of God to professing Christians now:
«Seek ye me.» Get away from your mere ce...
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CONTENTS: God's lamentation over Israel and captivity foretold. The
day of the Lord.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: If men will not take a right course to obtain the favor of
God, God will take an eff...
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Amos 5:2. _The virgin of Israel is fallen._ Babylon, which had never
been stormed by a besieging army, is called a virgin. Isaiah 47:1.
Thus Israel, whose kingdom had never yet been wholly subdued, is...
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AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 5:1 Although they face imminent destruction, God
still pleads with his people to return to him.
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
Amos 5:7.] God in his omnipotence in contrast with the ungodly people,
indicating that he who can destroy should be feared. WORMWOOD] Justice
embittered, corrupted, and made hateful...
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EXPOSITION
VERSE 1-CH. 6:14
§ 8. _Third address_:_ the prophet utters a lamentation over the fall
of Israel_. (Amos 6:1.) He calls her to repentance, while he shows
wherein she has declined from the...
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Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation
(Amos 5:1),
Weeping over the house of Israel now.
The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is
forsaken upon her l...
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2 Timothy 3:1; Amos 6:10; Ecclesiastes 3:7; Ecclesiastes 9:12;...
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Shall keep silence — Be forced to it. Evil — Both for the
sinfulness of it, and for the troubles, wars, and captivity now at
hand....