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Verse Amos 3:6. _SHALL A TRUMPET BE BLOWN_] The sign of alarm and
invasion.
_AND THE PEOPLE NOT BE AFRAID?_] Not take the alarm, and provide for
their defence and safety?
_SHALL THERE BE EVIL IN A...
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IS THERE EVIL IN THE CITY AND THE LORD HATH NOT DONE IT? - Evil is of
two sorts, evil of sin, and evil of punishment. There is no other; for
evil of nature, or evil of fortune, are evils, by God’s Pro...
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II. THE PROPHETIC MESSAGES UNCOVERING
THE CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE
CHAPTER 3
The First Discourse
_ 1. There is cause for judgment (Amos 3:1) _
2. The coming judgment visitation (Amos 3:9)
Amos 3:1...
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ISRAEL'S RESPONSIBILITY AND THE PROPHET'S OBLIGATION. Amos, after
addressing the children of Israel, includes Judah by adding the whole
family, unless this is a gloss, as it may be, since the inclusio...
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SHALL... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. trumpet. Hebrew.
_shophar._
NOT BE AFRAID. not run together.
EVIL. calamity; as in Amos 5:13.Psalms 141:5. Feb. _ra'a'._ App-44. =
evil: not moral evil,...
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Such a severe rebuke might provoke contradiction among the prophet's
hearers: he therefore proceeds to indicate the authority upon which it
rests, arguing by means of a series of illustrations drawn f...
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IS _A_ HORN (Amos 2:2) _blown in_ A _city, and_ ARE _the people not_
IN ALARM?] Of course they are: for they know it to be the signal of
approaching danger. The horn was blown as a summons to repel a...
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Similarly the horn is a signal of danger; calamity is a sign that
Jehovah has willed it; and the appearance of a prophet is an
indication that Jehovah has sent him....
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_THE LORD WILL PUNISH EVIL -- AMOS 3:4-6_ God wanted it understood
that there was a cause for the punishment that He would bring upon
Israel. The Lord would do this to Israel because of her transgress...
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DISCOURSE: 1187
GOD THE SOURCE AND CAUSE OF ALL THINGS
Amos 3:6. _Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done
it?_
IT is a generally acknowledged truth, that every thing proceeds from
G...
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CAN TWO WALK, &C.— The similies in these verses have the same
meaning, and they all tend to shew that calamities happen according to
the appointing, permissive, or suffering will of God; and that
prop...
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PENITENCE PROMOTEDREASON CALLS FOR REPENTANCE THE LORD DOES NOT ROAR
WITHOUT CAUSE
TEXT: Amos 3:1-8
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Hear this word that Jehovah hath spoken against you, O children of
Israel against the whole fam...
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Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid?
shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it? SHALL A
TRUMPET BE BLOWN IN THE CITY, AND THE PEOPLE NOT BE AFRAID? W...
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3:6 [it]? (f-27) Or 'not have acted.'...
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THE FIRST ADDRESS
1-8. A call to attention.
9, 10. The oppressions practised by the powerful.
11-15. The disasters which should overtake them, their sanctuary and
their palaces.
1. 'Race' would be...
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THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD
AMOS
_MARK KIRKPATRICK_
CHAPTER 3
GOD WARNS ISRAEL’S PEOPLE
V1 People in Israel, listen to this message. The *Lord has spoken
against you.
This message...
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SURELY THE LORD... — In this, and the preceding verse, the future
tense should be replaced by a present. Render _doeth nothing,_ and in
Amos 3:6 _is a trumpet sounded_... _are not afraid_... _is there...
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אִם ־יִתָּקַ֤ע שֹׁופָר֙ בְּ עִ֔יר וְ
עָ֖ם
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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 recurren...
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Amos 3:3, Amos 7:14
THE MAN AND THE PROPHET
THE Book of Amos opens one of the greatest stages in the religious
development of mankind. Its originality is due to a few simple ideas,
which it propels...
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THE LORD'S WORD MUST COME TRUE
Amos 3:1-15
The closer our relationship with God, the more searching His scrutiny
and chastening. The sins of God's children which may seem of slight
consequence are ri...
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Having thus uttered the declamations of Jehovah's judgment on all the
nations, the prophet delivered his special message to Israel in a
series of three discourses. In each the introductory word is, "H...
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(f) Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be
afraid? shall there (g) be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done
[it]?
(f) Will the Prophet's threaten God's judgments and the peo...
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_Afraid. Yet you can hear these terrible truths without consternation!
Will you therefore escape? (Calmet) --- Evil. He speaks of the evil of
sin, of which God is not the author. (Challoner) --- All e...
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The Lord is going on in his expostulations. He first shews, that by
Israel's revolt that sweet communion between the Lord and his people
was interrupted. Ca n two walk together except they be agreed?...
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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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He adds, in the last place, _Shall a trumpet sound and the people
tremble not? _Here he reprehends, as I have said, the torpidity of the
people, to whom all threatening were a sport: “When a trumpet
s...
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After having specified each one of the nations that were found on the
territory promised to Abraham, God addresses Judah and Israel
together-the whole family whom He had brought up from Egypt. These
o...
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SHALL A TRUMPET BE BLOWN IN THE CITY,.... Meaning not any trumpet
blown, as the silver trumpet for the gathering of the people to
worship, or the jubilee trumpet, which proclaimed liberty to them, or...
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_Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid?
shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done [it]?_
Ver. 6. _Shall a trumpet be blown_] _sc._ out of a watch-tower in...
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_Will a lion roar, &c., when he hath no prey?_ “Naturalists assert
that when the lion sees his prey, he roars before he rushes on it; and
that at this roaring many animals show great fear. He likewise...
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Shall a trumpet be blown in the city and the people not be afraid? As
the signal of the trumpet was intended to arouse the people out of
their security, so the message of the prophet was intended to a...
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THE LORD READY TO PUNISH...
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NOT BE AFRAID? OR, NOT RUN TOGETHER
and the LORD hath not done it?:
Or, and shall not the L. do somewhat?...
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1-8 The distinguishing favours of God to us, if they do not restrain
from sin, shall not exempt from punishment. They could not expect
communion with God, unless they first sought peace with him. Whe...
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SHALL A TRUMPET BE BLOWN, when an alarm is sounded, by which notice is
given of danger approaching, of an enemy invading the land, in the
city, any city, but particularly in a frontier city, in which...
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THE INEVITABILITY OF JUDGMENT, BOTH BECAUSE OF WHAT YHWH IS, AND
BECAUSE HE WILL ACT (AMOS 3:1).
Following up on the idea in Amos 2:9 Amos commences this section of
his prophecy (introduced by ‘hear t...
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THE COVENANT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN YHWH AND HIS PEOPLE (AMOS 3:1).
The covenant relationship between YHWH and His people is revealed in
this carefully constructed passage in which there is constant
re...
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CONTENTS: Jehovah's controversy with Israel.
CHARACTERS: God, Amos.
CONCLUSION: Judgment begins at the house of God. The nearer men are to
God in profession, and the kinder notice God has taken of t...
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Amos 3:1. _Against the whole family_ of the twelve tribes, _which I
brought up from Egypt._ It was a laborious work to make them hear. The
prophets did not confine their labours to local districts.
Am...
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_Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?_
GOD AS THE AUTHOR OF EVIL
The principal scope and design of the prophecy of Amos is
this,--Though the Jews had by their sins provoked G...
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_Will a lion roar in the forest when he hath no prey?_
RETRIBUTION
I. Retribution springs out of the nature of things. Poiset, in his
travels, states that the lion has two different modes of hunting...
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_You only have I known of all the families of the earth._
SIN IN THE HIGHLY-FAVOURED
This is shameful ingratitude. The honour and blessing conferred on the
Israelites gave the stain of ingratitude to...
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AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 3:3 With a series of questions, Amos shows that
disaster is coming for Israel. In nature, certain sequences of events
lead to predictable outcomes. If a LION roars (vv....
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
AMOS 3:3. TWO] The prophet and the Spirit of God. Israel did not
believe that _God_ threatened such denunciations by the prophets (ch.
Amos 6:1; Amos 1:7). Amos spoke because God com...
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EXPOSITION
VERSE 1-CH. 6:14
Part II. THREE ADDRESSES PARTICULARIZING THE SINS OF ISRAEL AND
ANNOUNCING IMMINENT JUDGMENT.
AMOS 3:1
§ 1.
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Hear this word [Amos said] that the LORD hath spoken against you, O
children of Israel, and against the whole family (Amos 3:1)
So that would include Judah also.
which I brought up from the land of...
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2 Corinthians 5:11; Acts 2:23; Acts 4:28; Ezekiel 33:3; Genesis 50:20;
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Afraid — Affected with the danger. Evil — Such as plague or
famine. Done it — Either immediately by his own hand, or by the
hands of those he employs. Whoever are the instruments, God is the
principal...