Judge, sceptre-holder (Amos 1:5), king (Amos 1:15), are all practically identical in meaning.
4, 5. The surrounding nations are charged with violations of the law written in the heart, Judah with offences against a law set forth in positive commandments. Their lies] the unreal, imaginary deities, the Baalim and Ashtaroth, who have no existence save in the mind of the worshipper, and therefore are sure to disappoint his hopes.
Verse Amos 2:3. _I WILL CUT OFF THE JUDGE_] It shall be so destroyed, that it shall never more have any _form of government_. The _judge_ here, שופטים _shophet_, may signify the chief magistrate. The...
AND I WILL CUT OFF THE JUDGE - The title “judge” (shophet) is nowhere used absolutely of a king. Holy Scripture speaks in several places of “all the judges of the earth” Job 9:24; Psalms 2:10; Psalms...
CHAPTER 2 _ 1. Moab (Amos 2:1) _ 2. Judah (Amos 2:4) 3. Israel (Amos 2:6) Amos 2:1. So fierce was the hatred of Moab that they dishonored the bo
MOAB. With Moab the prophet concludes his list of Israel's foes. When Israel arrived on the E. of the Jordan, the Moabites inhabited the high tableland E. of the Dead Sea, whither they had been driven...
JUDGE. sceptre-holder (Numbers 24:17). THE MIDST THEREOF. her midst. Feminine. to agree with _'erez_ (understood). the midst of her [land]....
Amos 2:1 . MOAB. The Moabites inhabited the elevated and fertile table-land (Heb. _Mîshôr_, "level plain," Deuteronomy 3:10 &c.), on the east of the Dead Sea. By the Israelites, the deep chasm formed...
_the judge_ Why is the _judge_mentioned rather than, as would naturally be expected, the king? One answer is that Moab was at this time subject to Jeroboam II., and hence there was no -king" of Moab,...
_THE TRANSGRESSIONS OF MOAB -- AMOS 2:1-3:_ The fact that Moab had gone on committing one sin after another caused God to pronounce judgment upon that nation. The Moabites were also descendants of Lot...
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 wi...
PUNISHMENT PROMISED, THE HEATHEN NATIONSMOAB TEXT: Amos 2:1-3 1 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Moab, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned t...
And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD. AND I WILL CUT OFF THE JUDGE - the chief magistrate (Shophet: answering to the S...
THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 2 PUNISHMENT FOR MOAB’S PEOPLE V1 This is what the *Lord says: ‘I will certainly punish the people in Moab for their man...
וְ הִכְרַתִּ֥י שֹׁופֵ֖ט מִ קִּרְבָּ֑הּ וְ כָל
ATROCITIES AND ATROCITIES Amos 1:3 - Amos 2:1 LIKE all the prophets of Israel, Amos receives oracles for foreign nations. Unlike them, however, he arranges these oracles not after, but before, his in...
JUDAH SHALL BE JUDGED ALSO Amos 1:11-15; Amos 2:1-5 _Edom_ was Esau; that is, the people were closely akin to Israel; perhaps for that very reason the hatred on either side became more and more invet...
The second verse of this first chapter gives the key to the book. Jehovah declared Himself in judgment. Beginning at the point farthest from Israel, the prophet delivered his messages to the nations a...
_Judge, ruler, or head, shall be no more._...
We have some account of Moab's cruelty, for which the Lord is here bringing him to accounts 2 Kings 3:26. It is worthy observation, and I take occasion to remark it in this place, in the Lord's disple...
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...
He finally adds, _And I will cut off the judge from the midst of her, and will slay her princes, saith Jehovah. _God here declares, that the kingdom of the Moabites and the people shall be no more; fo...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 AND 2. In the outset Jehovah, proclaiming His own rights from the place of His own throne, roars from Zion and utters His voice from Jerusalem. Afterwards,...
AND I WILL CUT OFF THE JUDGE FROM THE MIDST THEREOF,.... Either from the midst of Moab, the country in general; or from Kerioth in particular, so Kimchi; meaning their principal governor, their king,...
And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD. Ver. 3. _And I will cut off the judge_] _i.e._ the king, who sometimes sits himsel...
_For three transgressions of Moab_ Moab and Ammon being nearly related, (see Genesis 19:37,) and bordering upon each other, they are usually joined together in the threatenings of the prophets. _Becau...
AGAINST MOAB AND JUDAH...
and I will cut off the judge, all the magistrates, FROM THE MIDST THEREOF AND WILL SLAY ALL THE PRINCES THEREOF WITH HIM, SAITH THE LORD, so that Moab would cease to exist as a nation. This came to pa...
1-8 The evil passions of the heart break out in various forms; but the Lord looks to our motives, as well as our conduct. Those that deal cruelly, shall be cruelly dealt with. Other nations were reck...
I WILL CUT OFF, by the sword of the enemy, the judge; the governor, i. e. every one of them; the singular being put for the plural, to intimate the destruction of all of them. FROM THE MIDST THEREOF;...
Amos 2:3 off H3772 (H8689) judge H8199 (H8802) midst H7130 slay H2026 (H8799) princes H8269 Says...
6). YHWH'S JUDGMENT ON MOAB (AMOS 2:1). Unlike the remainder Moab are not condemned for any action against God's people. Rather they are condemned for their deliberate desecration of the bones of the...
CONTENTS: Judgments pronounced upon Judah, Moab and Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Amos. CONCLUSION: To keep not the commandments of God's Word, making no conscience of them, is to despise the wisdom, jus...
Amos 2:2. _Kirioth,_ a city of Moab, having palaces. Jeremiah 48:24. Amos 2:6. _For three transgressions of Israel._ This phrase, explained in Amos 1:3, is repeate
_I will not turn away the punishment thereof._ GOD’S DEALING WITH NATIONS I. The opportunity for repentance which all possess. The punishment of the six heathen nations, as of Judah and Israel, opens...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 2:1 MOAB was Ammon’s neighbor to the south, perhaps included here because Moab and Ammon were both descended from Lot through his daughters (Genesis 19:37
CRITICAL NOTES.] BONES] An act of cruelty revenged; others, an insult to the remains of a dead king, probably the king joined in alliance with Jehoshaphat and Jehoram (2 Kings 3:9). AMOS 2:2. KIR.] A...
EXPOSITION AMOS 2:1 Judgment on Moab. AMOS 2:1 MOAB. The prophet now denounces the other nation connected by ties of blood with Israel (see on Amos 1:13). Moab's hostility
Let's turn now to the book of Amos. In the first verse of Amos he introduces himself. These are the words of Amos, who was among the herdmen [or a shepherd] at Tekoa (Amos 1:1), Now Tekoa is a little...
Jeremiah 48:25; Jeremiah 48:7; Numbers 24:17...
The judge — The governor that is, every one of them....