Amos 1 - Introduction
_AMOS SHEWETH GOD'S JUDGMENTS UPON SYRIA, UPON THE PHILISTINES, UPON TYRUS, UPON EDOM, UPON AMMON._ _Before Christ 787._... [ Continue Reading ]
_AMOS SHEWETH GOD'S JUDGMENTS UPON SYRIA, UPON THE PHILISTINES, UPON TYRUS, UPON EDOM, UPON AMMON._ _Before Christ 787._... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD WILL ROAR— Some commentators have observed that the prophet Amos makes use of comparisons taken from lions and other animals, because he himself had been conversant in forests and among different animals. Instead of _habitations,_ we may read _pleasant pastures._... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL NOT TURN AWAY THE PUNISHMENT THEREOF— _I will not revoke it;_ that is, the voice which denounced their destruction. Houbigant renders the verse, _After three transgressions of Damascus, I will not bear that which was the fourth; because,_ &c. The prophet first threatens the people of Syria, t... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL BREAK ALSO THE BAR OF DAMASCUS— See 2 Kings 16:9. The _bar_ means the _gates_ or _fortifications._ Houbigant, instead of, _The house of Eden,_ reads _The house of pleasure;_ and for _Kir,_ he translates _Cyrene._... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THREE TRANSGRESSIONS OF GAZA— Houbigant renders this in the same manner as the third verse; and so throughout the chapter. Instead of _the whole captivity,_ we may read, _a peaceable captivity;_ that is to say, a captivity not taken in war, but by sleight and deceit; or _a perfect captivity;_ th... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT I WILL SEND A FIRE, &C.— _Teman_ and _Bozrah_ were two principal cities of Idumea. This expression imports their intire conquest and destruction. The ancient country of the Edomites was afterwards called Arabia Petraea; whence they were expelled by the Nabatheans, and never could recover it; but... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEIR KING, &C.— מלכם _malkam,_ which some understand of _Melchom,_ the god of the Ammonites: but the words adjoined, _his princes,_ seem rather to point out the king of the country. REFLECTIONS.—1st, The prophesy opens with an account of the writer Amos, an inhabitant of Tekoa, in the tribe of... [ Continue Reading ]