Trust. — The word for “trust” is a participle, and we should translate as the parallelism indicates: the confident (or complacent) dwellers in the mountain of Samaria; i.e., the upper luxurious classes, “the chief of the first of nations,” meaning the rulers, to whom Israel, the supreme and highly-favoured nation, comes up for judgment and for guidance in all civil affairs. These are now summoned to listen to the rebuke of the Divine Judge.
CHAPTER VI _The prophet reproves his people for indulging themselves in_ _luxurious ease, and forming alliances with their powerful_ _idolatrous neighbours_, 1. _He asks if their lands or their lo...
WOE TO THEM THAT ARE AT EASE - The word always means such as are recklessly at their ease, “the careless ones,” such as those whom Isaiah bids Isaiah 32:9, “rise up, tremble, be troubled, for many day...
CHAPTER 6 The Fourth Discourse _ 1. Woe to them that are at ease in Zion (Amos 6:1) _ 2. The punishment announced (Amos 6:7) Amos 6:1. This woe concerns the great men, the chiefs of the nation, who...
THE LUXURY OF ISRAEL'S RULERS. Extravagance in ritual often indicates a perverted sense of what constitutes a true philosophy of life. The price of luxury is far greater than men realise. The prophet...
'WOE. The second woe. See Amos 5:18. them: i.e. the nobles of Judah, in comparison with the nobles of Israel (in Samaria) its the next clause. at ease. careless, secure, or easy-going. TRUST. confide...
_Woe to them_that, &c. AH! THEY THAT.… AND THAT, &c., as Amos 5:18. are _at ease_ Cf. Isaiah 32:9 ("rise up, ye women that _are at ease_"), Isaiah 32:11. The word (though it may be used in a good sens...
_AT EASE IN ZION -- AMOS 6:1-4:_ The national leaders in Israel felt safe and at ease in Zion or Jerusalem and on the mountain of Samaria. However, these notable men of Israel were in trouble. Very gr...
DISCOURSE: 1192 CARNAL EASE AND SECURITY REPROVED Amos 6:1. _Woe to them that are at ease in Zion_. ONE would scarcely conceive it possible, that the Jews, with so many instances of God’s displeasure...
WOE TO THEM THAT ARE AT EASE— Houbigant reads very properly, _Woe to them that despise Sion;_ for there was a perpetual rivalship between Sion and Samaria; and it is plain from the whole series, not o...
RIGHTEOUSNESS DEMANDS REPENTANCELUXURY LEADS TO INDOLENCE TEXT: Amos 6:1-8 1 Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and to them that are secure in the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chi...
Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came! WOE TO THEM THAT ARE AT EASE IN ZION. The Hebrew...
6:1 secure (d-13) Or 'careless,' as Isaiah 32:9 . first (e-23) Or 'named the chief;' but cf. Numbers 24:20 ....
THE FOURTH ADDRESS 1-3. False security of Judah and Israel. 4-6. Carelessness and luxury. 7-11. Captivity, siege, death, ruin. 12, 13. Preposterous errors. 14. The coming of the avenger. 1, 2. Re...
THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 6 GOD WILL CAUSE THE GOOD TIMES IN ISRAEL TO END V1 Oh, it will be very bad for you people in *Zion. You do not think t...
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3. "AT EASE IN ZION" Amos 6:1 The evil of the national worship was the false political confidence which it engendered. Leaving the ritual alone, Amos now proceeds to assault this confidence. We are t...
“WOE TO THEM THAT ARE AT EASE IN ZION!” Amos 6:1-14 Zion is included with Samaria in this prophecy and the nobles are especially condemned for their drunkenness, gluttony, and insolence. The prophet...
From the formalists the prophet turned toward those who had lost all sense of the spiritual and the moral, and were indifferent, those were ''at ease in Zion," and "secure upon the mountains of Samari...
Woe to (a) them [that are] at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, (b) [which are] named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came! (a) The Prophet threatens the wealthy,...
_Wealthy. Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic, "despisers of Sion." Hebrew also, "who hate Sion." The prophecy wholly regards Israel. (Calmet) --- It is a great crime for the rich to neglect the poor; but...
CONTENTS Here is a cry to the Church. The wanton state of professors described; and the Lord's determination to punish....
What is here said of Zion, in the days of the Prophet Amos, is equally applicable to the Church in all days. There is nothing more foreign to a state of grace, than a state of ease in the world. For w...
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...
_‘AT EASE IN ZION’_ ‘Woe to them that are at ease in Zion.’ Amos 6:1 I. THERE IS A GREAT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING AT EASE AND BEING CONTENTED.—Every Christian should learn contentment even in pain...
The Prophet now directs his discourse not only to the Israelites, to whom he was especially given as an instructor and teacher, but includes the Jews also: and yet he addresses not all indiscriminatel...
Chapter 6 dwells upon the false confidence that deceived the heads of Israel. A similar judgment to that of Calneh and Hamath might fall upon Israel. Their chief men gave themselves up to luxury, as t...
WOE TO THEM [THAT ARE] AT EASE IN ZION,.... Or "secure" c there; which was a strong hold, the city of David, the seat of the kings of Judah; where their court was kept, and the princes and chief men r...
Woe to them [that are] at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, [which are] named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came! Ver. 1. _Woe to them that are at ease in Zion_]...
_Wo to them that are at ease in Zion_ Who _are secure_, as the margin reads, continuing in their sins, fearless of God's judgments, and resolved to indulge themselves in that voluptuousness and ease w...
Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, given to a false security, AND TRUST IN THE MOUNTAIN OF SAMARIA, those who are apparently without a care as they occupy their mountain dwellings where they consid...
THE PEOPLE GUILTY OF SECURITY AND LUXURY...
ARE AT EASE: Or, are secure CHIEF: Or, firstfruits...
1-7 Those are looked upon as doing well for themselves, who do well for their bodies; but we are here told what their ease is, and what their woe is. Here is a description of the pride, security, and...
AMOS CHAPTER 6 The voluptuousness of Israel, AMOS 6:1, shall be punished with desolation, AMOS 6:7. Their perversion of justice and vain confidence shall end in affliction, AMOS 6:12. WOE! this compri...
Amos 6:1 Woe H1945 ease H7600 Zion H6726 trust H982 (H8802) Mount H2022 Samaria H8111 Notable H5344 ...
THE SECOND WOE ON THOSE WHO COMPLACENTLY RELAXED, DEPENDING ON YHWH'S PROTECTION, WHILE THEY ALSO TOTALLY IGNORED HIS REQUIREMENTS (AMOS 6:1). While Amos's mission was to Israel he never overlooked th...
TRUST (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12). _...
Amos was a herdsman, and a gatherer of sycamore fruit. His words are rugged, but sometimes he rises to sublimity. His expressions are somewhat dark, and not readily to be understood; but when we learn...
CONTENTS: Woe pronounced upon those at ease in sin abandoned by God. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Many are puffed up and rocked to sleep in carnal security by the position they occupy in the...
Amos 6:1. _The mountain of Samaria._ This city was built on a hill, like Zion, to make it impregnable. See note on Isaiah 28:1. Amos 6:2. _Calneh,_ or Ctesiphon. It was situate almost opposite Seleuci...
_Woe to them that are at ease in Zion._ THE SECURE ALARMED There is something very agreeable and desirable in ease. Yet, strange as the declaration may appear, this tranquillity is too common; and t...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 6:1 Amos included the Judeans in his warning (see Amos 2:4). Both ZION (Jerusalem, the capital of Judah) and SAMARIA (the capital of Israel
_HOMILETICS_ CRITICAL NOTES.] Second woe denounced. EASE] Recklessly and carelessly. MOUNT.] not in God. SAM.] Strong, which resisted for 3 years, and was the last city of Israel taken (2 Kings 17:5)....
EXPOSITION AMOS 6:1 With a second woe the prophet denounces the chiefs of the whole nation, who were quite satisfied with the present state of things, and, revelling in luxury, feared no coming judg...
Shall we turn in our Bibles to Amos chapter 6. The Northern Kingdom of Israel has become apostate. They are living in luxury, carelessness, indifference towards God, when suddenly their peace is distu...
1 Kings 16:24; 1 Peter 5:7; Amos 4:1; Amos 8:14; Exodus 19:5;...
At ease — That neither fear nor believe the threatened judgments of God. In Zion — That is put for the kingdom of the two tribes, and principally the inhabitants of Jerusalem. Samaria — Woe to them al...