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CHAPTER VI
_The prophet reproves his people for indulging themselves in_
_luxurious ease, and forming alliances with their powerful_
_idolatrous neighbours_, 1.
_He asks if their lands or their lo...
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WOE TO THEM THAT ARE AT EASE - The word always means such as are
recklessly at their ease, “the careless ones,” such as those whom
Isaiah bids Isaiah 32:9, “rise up, tremble, be troubled, for many
day...
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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...
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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...
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'WOE. The second woe. See Amos 5:18. them: i.e. the nobles of Judah,
in comparison with the nobles of Israel (in Samaria) its the next
clause. at ease. careless, secure, or easy-going.
TRUST. confide...
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_Woe to them_that, &c. AH! THEY THAT.… AND THAT, &c., as Amos 5:18.
are _at ease_ Cf. Isaiah 32:9 ("rise up, ye women that _are at
ease_"), Isaiah 32:11. The word (though it may be used in a good
sens...
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_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...
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DISCOURSE: 1192
CARNAL EASE AND SECURITY REPROVED
Amos 6:1. _Woe to them that are at ease in Zion_.
ONE would scarcely conceive it possible, that the Jews, with so many
instances of God’s displeasure...
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WOE TO THEM THAT ARE AT EASE— Houbigant reads very properly, _Woe to
them that despise Sion;_ for there was a perpetual rivalship between
Sion and Samaria; and it is plain from the whole series, not o...
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RIGHTEOUSNESS DEMANDS REPENTANCELUXURY LEADS TO INDOLENCE
TEXT: Amos 6:1-8
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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...
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Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of
Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of
Israel came!
WOE TO THEM THAT ARE AT EASE IN ZION. The Hebrew...
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6:1 secure (d-13) Or 'careless,' as Isaiah 32:9 . first (e-23) Or
'named the chief;' but cf. Numbers 24:20 ....
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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...
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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...
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TRUST. — The word for “trust” is a participle, and we should
translate as the parallelism indicates: _the confident_ (or
_complacent_)_ dwellers in the mountain of Samaria; i.e.,_ the upper
luxurious...
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הֹ֚וי הַ שַּׁאֲנַנִּ֣ים בְּ צִיֹּ֔ון
וְ הַ
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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Woe to (a) them [that are] at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain
of Samaria, (b) [which are] named chief of the nations, to whom the
house of Israel came!
(a) The Prophet threatens the wealthy,...
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_Wealthy. Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic, "despisers of Sion." Hebrew
also, "who hate Sion." The prophecy wholly regards Israel. (Calmet)
--- It is a great crime for the rich to neglect the poor; but...
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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...
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CONTENTS
Here is a cry to the Church. The wanton state of professors described;
and the Lord's determination to punish....
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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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_‘AT EASE IN ZION’_
‘Woe to them that are at ease in Zion.’
Amos 6:1
I. THERE IS A GREAT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING AT EASE AND BEING
CONTENTED.—Every Christian should learn contentment even in pain...
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The Prophet now directs his discourse not only to the Israelites, to
whom he was especially given as an instructor and teacher, but
includes the Jews also: and yet he addresses not all indiscriminatel...
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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...
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WOE TO THEM [THAT ARE] AT EASE IN ZION,.... Or "secure" c there; which
was a strong hold, the city of David, the seat of the kings of Judah;
where their court was kept, and the princes and chief men r...
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Woe to them [that are] at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of
Samaria, [which are] named chief of the nations, to whom the house of
Israel came!
Ver. 1. _Woe to them that are at ease in Zion_]...
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_Wo to them that are at ease in Zion_ Who _are secure_, as the margin
reads, continuing in their sins, fearless of God's judgments, and
resolved to indulge themselves in that voluptuousness and ease w...
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Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, given to a false security, AND
TRUST IN THE MOUNTAIN OF SAMARIA, those who are apparently without a
care as they occupy their mountain dwellings where they consid...
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THE PEOPLE GUILTY OF SECURITY AND LUXURY...
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ARE AT EASE:
Or, are secure
CHIEF:
Or, firstfruits...
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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...
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AMOS CHAPTER 6 The voluptuousness of Israel, AMOS 6:1, shall be
punished with desolation, AMOS 6:7. Their perversion of justice and
vain confidence shall end in affliction, AMOS 6:12. WOE! this
compri...
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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...
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TRUST
(_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12). _...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_Woe to them that are at ease in Zion._
THE SECURE ALARMED
There is something very agreeable and desirable in ease. Yet, strange
as the declaration may appear, this tranquillity is too common; and t...
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AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 6:1 Amos included the Judeans in his warning (see
Amos 2:4). Both ZION (Jerusalem, the capital of Judah) and SAMARIA
(the capital of Israel
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_HOMILETICS_
CRITICAL NOTES.] Second woe denounced. EASE] Recklessly and
carelessly. MOUNT.] not in God. SAM.] Strong, which resisted for 3
years, and was the last city of Israel taken (2 Kings 17:5)....
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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...
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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...
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1 Kings 16:24; 1 Peter 5:7; Amos 4:1; Amos 8:14; Exodus 19:5;...
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At ease — That neither fear nor believe the threatened judgments of
God. In Zion — That is put for the kingdom of the two tribes, and
principally the inhabitants of Jerusalem. Samaria — Woe to them al...