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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Amos 5:23

Songs. — The very sound of their tumultuous songs was a burden to Jehovah. As Christ cleansed the Temple, so would He dispel all this hypocritical and perilous confusion of ideas.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Amos 5:23. _THE NOISE OF THY SONGS - THE MELODY OF THY VIOLS._] They had both _vocal_ and _instrumental music_ in those sacrificial festivals; and God hated the _noise_ of the _one_ and _shut_...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    TAKE THOU AWAY FROM ME - Literally, “from upon Me,” that is, from being a burden to Me, a weight on Me. So God says by Isaiah, “your new moons and your appointed feasts My soul hateth; they are a burd...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The songs and music accompanying the worship (cf. Amos 8:10; Isaiah 30:29 _a_) are rejected by Jehovah likewise. Of what nature these were in pre-exilic times, we do not precisely know: the descriptio...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    RIGHTEOUSNESS DEMANDS REPENTANCERID RELIGION OF HYPOCRISY TEXT: Amos 5:21-27 21 I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies. 22 Yea, though ye offer me you...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. TAKE THOU AWAY FROM ME - literally, 'Take away from upon me;' the idea being that of a burden pressing u...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הָסֵ֥ר מֵ עָלַ֖י הֲמֹ֣ון שִׁרֶ֑יךָ וְ זִמְרַ֥

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Harp. Praise ill becomes the sinner, Ecclesiasticus xv. 9., and Psalm xlix. 17._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    It follows, _Take away from me the multitude of thy songs _By speaking of multitude, he aims at hypocrites, who toil much in their devices without measure or end, as we see done at this day by those u...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    TAKE THOU AWAY FROM ME THE NOISE OF THY SONGS,.... The ten tribes, very probably, imitated the, temple music at Jerusalem, both vocal and instrumental, and had their songs and hymns of praise, which t...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. Ver. 23. _Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs_] No more pleasing to me than the grunting of a hog...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _I hate and despise your feast-days_ This and the three following verses are the same in sense with Isaiah 1:11, and the other texts referred to in the margin, on which the reader is desired to consul...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Take thou away from Me the noise of thy songs, as He contemptuously calls their congregational singing; FOR I WILL NOT HEAR THE MELODY OF THY VIOLS, of the harps and other instrumental music used in p...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    WOE UPON FOOLS AND HYPOCRITES...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE NOISE OF THY SONGS; by way of contempt and loathing, God calls their songs noise; how harmonious, delightful, and ravishing soever they might be to their ears, they were not pleasing unto God. SON...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Amos 5:23 away H5493 (H8685) noise H1995 songs H7892 hear H8085 (H8799) melody H2172 instruments H5035 the

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I hate, I despise your feast days._ THE DIVINELY ABHORRENT AND THE DIVINELY DEMANDED I. The Divinely abhorrent. The same aversion from the ceremonial observances of the insincere and rebellious Isra...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 5:21.] Festivals and sacrifices will not avert judgments. YOUR FEASTS] of human origin, not Divine appointment (Isaiah 1:10); the expression of Divine abhorrence is most emphat...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Amos 6:5; Amos 8:10; Amos 8:3...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Thy songs — Used in their sacrifices, and solemn feasts; herein they imitated the temple — worship, but all was unpleasing to the Lord. Will not hear — Not with delight and acceptance. Thy viols — Thi...

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