Amos 2 - Introduction
_GOD'S WRATH AGAINST MOAB, JUDAH, AND ISRAEL. GOD COMPLAINETH OF THEIR UNTHANKFULNESS._ _Before Christ 787._... [ Continue Reading ]
_GOD'S WRATH AGAINST MOAB, JUDAH, AND ISRAEL. GOD COMPLAINETH OF THEIR UNTHANKFULNESS._ _Before Christ 787._... [ Continue Reading ]
BECAUSE HE BURNED THE BONES, &C.— "That not even the ashes of the bones might remain, or be distinguished from lime." See 2 Kings 3:27.... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL CUT OFF THE JUDGE— "I will so destroy this nation, that there shall not be in it king, governor, or chief." For the name of _judge_ is here used for all in authority. Compare this prediction with that in the 48th of Jeremiah.... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL SEND A FIRE UPON JUDAH— The war commenced in Judah, at the end of the reign of Jotham son of Uzziah, when the Lord sent against him Rezin king of Assyria, and Pekah king of Israel. See, for the history here alluded to, 2 Kings 15:37; Exodus 16:7; Exodus 18:7 and 2 Chronicles 28.... [ Continue Reading ]
BECAUSE THEY SOLD THE RIGHTEOUS— That is to say, they received the money as a bribe, to condemn the just; and for a little paltry gain,—for a pair of sandals, they sacrificed the interests and the cause of the poor. It is a proverbial manner of speaking, similar to that in Ezekiel 13:19. See also Jo... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT PANT, &C.— _That stamp upon, or tread upon the heads of the poor, in the dust of the earth,_ &c. Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY LAY THEMSELVES DOWN, &C.— Amos here reproves the Israelites for three abuses. The _first,_ that they kept the clothes which they had received as pledges from the poor, contrary to the law, which commanded that the clothes received in pledge should be returned by the going down of the sun. S... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD, I AM PRESSED UNDER YOU— _Behold, I will make a pressure under you, as a cart loaded with sheaves makes a pressure;_—ver. 14. _And flight shall,_ &c. REFLECTIONS.—1st, God's controversy still proceeds: 1. With Moab. Their multiplied transgressions called for vengeance, and one peculiarly hei... [ Continue Reading ]