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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Amos 4:6

Verse Amos 4:6. Cleanness of teeth] Scarcity of bread, as immediately explained. Ye shall have no trouble in cleaning your teeth, for ye shall have nothing to eat.

Yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.] This reprehension is repeated five times in this chapter; and in it are strongly implied God's longsuffering, his various modes of fatherly chastisement, the ingratitude of the people, and their obstinate wickedness. The famine mentioned here is supposed to be that which is spoken of 2 Kings 8:1; but it is most likely to have been that mentioned by Joel, Joel 1:1.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND I, I TOO HAVE GIVEN YOU - Such had been their gifts to God, worthless, because destitute of that which alone God requires of His creatures, a loving, simple, single-hearted, loyal obedience. So th...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 4 The Second Discourse _ 1. Divine threatening and irony (Amos 4:1) _ 2. Yet have ye not returned unto Me (Amos 4:6) 3. Prepare to meet thy God (Amos 4:12)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISRAEL'S DENSENESS. What is the real cause of conduct that merits such punishment? At the root of all the evil is a sham religion, a religion which in its mere formality and gross corruption has degen...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    CLEANNESS OF TEETH. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for famine. YET HAVE YE NOT. &c. Note the Structure above, showing the Figure fo Speech _Amoeboeon_ (App-6). Compare Isaiah...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Famine. _And I also_ i.e. And I on my part [153] in return for your zeal in the observance of a merely external formalism. [153] For this use of _also_comp. Genesis 20:6; Judges 2:3; Jdg 2:21; 2 Sam...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Here the people at large are addressed by the prophet, perhaps at some festal religious gathering....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The five unheeded chastisements which have passed over Israel. The description of each ends with the pathetic refrain, indicating its failure to produce the desired effect, "Yet have ye not returned u...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _YOU HAVE NOT RETURNED TO GOD -- AMOS 4:6-11:_ Five times the Lord described efforts He had made to rescue Israel from sin. But each time He said, "Yet you did not return to me," or "still you rejecte...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND I ALSO HAVE GIVEN— _For this cause have I given,_ &c. "The famine which I have sent upon the cities and territories of Israel, has not brought you to a sense of your sins, or any sincere purposes...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    REASON CALLS FOR REPENTANCECHASTENING IN THE PAST SHOULD MAKE THEM THINK TEXT: Amos 4:6-11 6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places; y...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. I ALSO HAVE GIVEN YOU. Yahweh details His seve...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SECOND ADDRESS 1-3. The heartless luxury of the rich women. 4, 5. The elaborate sacrifices and pilgrimages. 6-12. The failure of God's chastisements to produce amendment. 1. These pampered wome...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    CLEANNESS OF TEETH is, by the poetic parallelism, identified with the want of bread, the former phrase being a graphic representation of one of the ghastly aspects of famine; clean, sharp, prominent t...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ גַם ־אֲנִי֩ נָתַ֨תִּי לָכֶ֜ם נִקְיֹ֤ון שִׁ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    1. FOR WORSHIP, CHASTISEMENT Amos 4:4 In chapter 2 Amos contrasted the popular conception of religion as worship with God's-conception of it as history. He placed a picture of the sanctuary, hot with...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE FALSE PEACE OF RITUAL Amos 4:4 THE next four groups of oracles- Amos 4:4; Amos 5:1; Amos 5:6.-treat of many different details, and each of them has its own emphas

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    CALAMITIES ARE GOD'S WARNINGS Amos 4:1-11 Speaking after the imagery of his vocation, Amos the herdsman compares the rich and powerful of Samaria, who were living in luxury and wantonness, to the kin...

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

    The second discourse consists of Jehovah's summons to the people. It commences with a severe and terrible indictment of the women. He addressed them as "Ye kine of Bashan," which reveals the degradati...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And I also have given you (h) cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. (h) That is, lack of bread and meat....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Dulness, ( stuporem) as when the teeth have bitten at a stone (Haydock) and are edged, Jeremias xxxi. 29. Septuagint, "gnashing." Hebrew, "cleanness," through want of food. Eliseus foretold a famine...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here we have an account of the Lord's sore judgments upon Israel; by famine, by withholding the fruits of the earth, and by marking his judgments in a distinguishing manner, causing it to rain upon on...

  • 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

    _But I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your borders; and ye turned not to me, saith Jehovah. _God here expostulates with the people on account of their incurab...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 4 presents the oppression of the poor, and the worship which the children of Israel rendered at will in the places they had chosen. God also would act as He saw fit. He had indeed already done...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND I ALSO HAVE GIVEN YOU CLEANNESS OF TEETH IN ALL YOUR CITIES,.... Meaning a famine, having no food to foul them with, or to stick in them. This was not the famine in Samaria, 2 Kings 6:25; for that...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. Ver. 6. _And I have also given you cleanness o...

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

    _And I also have given you_ Or, for this cause I have given you, _cleanness of teeth_ An expression signifying a scarcity of food, or a famine. The famine which we read of 2 Kings 8:1, seems to be tha...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    VARIOUS PUNISHMENTS LEADING UP TO THE LAST JUDGMENT...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, namely, because they had nothing to eat, AND WANT OF BREAD IN ALL YOUR PLACES, by famines sent at various times; YET HAVE YE NOT RETURN...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    6-13 See the folly of carnal hearts; they wander from one creature to another, seeking for something to satisfy, and labour for that which satisfies not; yet, after all, they will not incline their e...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    AND I, the Lord, who gave many blessings to win you to repentance, hath also tried what might be done by judgments. CLEANNESS OF TEETH: this is a description of famine by one effect of it; where meat...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Amos 4:6 gave H5414 (H8804) cleanness H5356 teeth H8127 cities H5892 lack H2640 bread H3899 places H4725 returned...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH FIVE TIMES EXPRESSES HIS CONCERN THAT IN SPITE OF HIS JUDGMENTS ISRAEL HAVE NOT RETURNED TO HIM (AMOS 4:6). Having made clear His indictment of the women and men of Israel, both because of social...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    TWO INDICTMENTS OF THE PEOPLE WHICH WILL RESULT IN A SERIES OF CHASTISEMENTS (AMOS 4:1). A new oracle now begins with the words ‘hear this word ---' (compare Amos 3:1; Amos 5:1) and consists of indict...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Threatening against the oppressors in Israel. Israel reminded of God's chastening in the past. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: God designs all His providential rebukes to influence men to tur...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Amos 4:1. _Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan._ The strong bulls of Bashan are celebrated in scripture. Psalms 22:13. _Vaccæ pingues,_ fat cows, haughty women, abandoned to luxurious ease, and who, equ...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities._ AFFLICTIONS PROVIDENTIAL There is a material difference between what may be called permissive and active providences; and between su...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 4:6 The people had CLEANNESS OF TEETH because they had no food to cling to their teeth! YET YOU DID NOT RETURN TO ME. Even though God had sent various natural and social disasters, t...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 4:6. Teeth] Famine, as threatened in the law (Deuteronomy 28:48; Deuteronomy 28:57; cf. 2 Kings 8:1)....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION AMOS 4:1 _§ 2. Second address. The prophet reproves the voluptuous women of Samaria, and fortells their captivity _(Amos 4:1);_ with bitter irony he describes the people's devotion to idol...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Then the Lord says, Hear this word, ye cows of Bashan (Amos 4:1), They worshiped the calf so God calls them a bunch of cows. But because they worshiped the calf, He speaks disdainfully concerning th...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 17:1; 1 Kings 18:2; 2 Chronicles 28:22; 2 Kings 4:38;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    An I — The Lord who gave many blessings to win you to repentance, hath also tried what might be done by judgments. Cleanness of teeth — This is a description of famine....

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