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Verse Amos 5:26. _BUT YE HAVE BORNE_] The preceding verse spoke of
their _fathers_; the present verse speaks of the _Israelites then_
_existing_, who were so grievously addicted to idolatry, that they...
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BUT YE HAVE BORNE - Literally, “And ye bare the tabernacle of your
Moloch” (literally, “your king,” from where the idol Moloch had
its name.) He assigns the reason, why he had denied that they
sacriri...
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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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ISRAEL'S DELUSIONS. The prophet resumes the subject of Israel's
delusions, how she disregards the essential conditions of real
welfare. In Amos 5:18 he deals with a peculiar example of this, the
conce...
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_But ye_ SHALL TAKE UP SAKKUTH YOUR KING, _and_ KAIWÂN _your images,
the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves;_ AND I WILL _cause
you to go into_ EXILE _beyond Damascus, saith_ JEHOVAH] You a...
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Do you think to win Jehovah's favour by your religious services? On
the contrary, He will have none of them: what He demands is not
sacrifice, or even praise, but _justice_; in the wilderness your
anc...
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_WHAT THE LORD DEMANDS -- AMOS 5:21-27 _ The children of Israel
stilled assembled before God to conduct solemn assemblies or religious
celebrations. Sadly, God took no delight in their times of worshi...
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AND CHIUN YOUR IMAGES— _And the image of our idols._ Houbigant; who
understands the word כיון _chiun_ to be an appellative, and not a
proper name in this place. The LXX for _Chiun_ read Ραιφαν,
_Raiph...
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HAVE YE OFFERED UNTO ME, &C.— See the note on Deuteronomy 12:8.
Jeremiah 7:22. These verses have made some people think that the
Israelites, in their forty years' wanderings through the wilderness,
co...
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RIGHTEOUSNESS DEMANDS REPENTANCERID RELIGION OF HYPOCRISY
TEXT: Amos 5:21-27
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I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your
solemn assemblies.
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Yea, though ye offer me you...
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Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness
forty years, O house of Israel?
HAVE YE OFFERED UNTO ME SACRIFICES AND OFFERINGS IN THE WILDERNESS
FORTY YEARS, O HOUSE OF ISRAEL?...
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5:26 Moloch, (b-9) i.e. Milcom. Others render it 'your King.' Chiun
(c-11) Some understand _ Chiun_ as the 'stand of the idol.' The LXX
reads, 'star of your god Remphan.' see Acts 7:43 ....
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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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_(_25, 26_)_ Much uncertainty belongs to the interpretation of these
verses and their connection in thought. Some commentators would treat
Amos 5:25 as a statement, and not a question, the first word...
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וּ נְשָׂאתֶ֗ם אֵ֚ת סִכּ֣וּת
מַלְכְּכֶ֔ם וְ אֵ
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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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A DARK DAY FOR HYPOCRITES
Amos 5:16-27
Mighty sins had been committed, and mighty judgments were at hand. The
oppression of the poor, Amos 5:11; the erection of elegant dwellings
from unrighteous ex...
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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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But ye have borne the tabernacle of your (n) Moloch and Chiun your
images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
(n) That idol which you esteemed as your king, and carried about as
you d...
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A tabernacle, &c. All this alludes to the idolatry which they
committed, when they were drawn away by the daughters of Moab to the
worship of their gods, Numbers xxv. (Challoner) --- They imitated the...
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We have here the Lord's threatenings concerning the captivity of the
people, and which we know came to pass. Stephen, the first martyr,
made a quotation from this scripture. Acts 7:42. But what I
part...
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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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It now follows, _And ye have carried Sicuth your king. _This place, we
know, is quoted by Stephen Acts 7:42 : but he followed the Greek
version; and the Greek translator, whoever he was, was mistaken...
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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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BUT YE HAVE BORNE THE TABERNACLE OF YOUR MOLOCH,.... The god of the
Ammonites; Amos 1:13; and
Jeremiah 7:31; called theirs, because they also worshipped it, and
caused their seed to pass through the...
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But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images,
the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
Ver. 26. _But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch_] That
idols were w...
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_But ye have borne_, or _did bear, the tabernacle of your Moloch and
Chiun_ Your ancestors manifested their want of true devotion toward
me, in that they were so prone to practise those idolatries whi...
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WOE UPON FOOLS AND HYPOCRITES...
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But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch, the war-god of the
Moabites and Ammonites, AND. CHIUN, a star-divinity, YOUR IMAGES, THE
STAR OF YOUR GOD, WHICH YE MADE TO YOURSELVES. Even in the wil...
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THE TABERNACLE OF YOUR MOLOCH:
Or, Siccuth your king...
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18-27 Woe unto those that desire the day of the Lord's judgments,
that wish for times of war and confusion; as some who long for
changes, hoping to rise upon the ruins of their country! but this
shou...
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BUT YE, the idolatrous children of idolatrous fathers, HAVE BORNE,
carried along with you in the wilderness, THE TABERNACLE, or little
chapel, or shrine, or canopy, in which the image of their idol wa...
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Amos 5:26 carried H5375 (H8804) Sikkuth H5522 king H4428 Chiun H3594
idols H6754 star H3556 gods H430 made...
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THE FIRST WOE, CONCERNING THE DAY OF YHWH (AMOS 5:18).
A ‘woe' was the opposite of a ‘blessed be you of YHWH'. It was the
announcing of troubles and disaster that would come on His people
directly fro...
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THE DAY OF DARKNESS IS COMING BECAUSE OF THE FALSITY OF THEIR WORSHIP
IN THAT WHILE THEY WORSHIP THEY IGNORE JUSTICE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS (AMOS
5:21).
Amos now emphatically brings out where their error l...
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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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CRITICAL NOTES.]
Amos 5:25. Have] Lit. _Did ye_, equivalent to denial, some; others,
not entire suspension of sacrifice, but mixed with idolatry. From of
old they had been recreant to God. Their pres...
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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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1 Kings 11:33; 2 Kings 23:12; 2 Kings 23:13; Leviticus 18:21;...
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Ye have borne — Ye carried along with you in the wilderness; the
shrine, or canopy in which the image was placed. Moloch — The great
idol of the Ammonites. Chiun — Another idol....