Amos 3 - Introduction
_THE NECESSITY OF GOD'S JUDGMENT AGAINST ISRAEL: THE PUBLICATION OF IT, WITH THE CAUSES THEREOF._ _Before Christ 787._... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE NECESSITY OF GOD'S JUDGMENT AGAINST ISRAEL: THE PUBLICATION OF IT, WITH THE CAUSES THEREOF._ _Before Christ 787._... [ Continue Reading ]
HEAR THIS WORD— This is a continuation of the discourse in the preceding chapter. After having denounced upon the Israelites of the ten tribes the evils there recorded, Amos here speaks to the whole race of Jacob, to the Hebrews of the two kingdoms of Judah and Israel. Afterwards he addresses those... [ Continue Reading ]
YOU ONLY HAVE I KNOWN— "You have I chosen from amongst all people, for mine inheritance and my kingdom. I have distinguished you with particular favours and privileges, and therefore expected from you greater returns of gratitude. Disappointing me of these returns, you must expect severer chastiseme... [ Continue Reading ]
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 prophets prophesy not, without the Lord's speaking to them. Instead of, _Shall one take up a snare,_ &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
PUBLISH, &C.— God calls upon the heathen to be witness of his judgments upon his own people, that they may take warning thereby: particularly he gives notice to the Philistines and Egyptians, the inveterate enemies of the Jews, that they may assemble themselves, and behold the ravages and oppression... [ Continue Reading ]
AN ADVERSARY THERE SHALL BE, &C.— _An adversary shall surround thy land: he shall cast thee down from thy power, and thy forts or strong places shall be spoiled._ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE CORNER OF A BED, &C.— _Sitting in the CORNER,_ is in the East a stately attitude, and expressive of superiority: and it has been so universal, that Lord Whitworth assures us, that among the Russians, who lately had many eastern customs among them, they were wont to place the picture of their... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL SMITE THE WINTER-HOUSE, &C.— See Jeremiah 36:22. The Russian princes used to have their winter and summer palaces, that nation having had many of the eastern usages, and even much of their dress, before the new regulations of Peter the Great. But the winter and summer-houses spoken of by the... [ Continue Reading ]