Amos 2:1
CONTENTS The same subject is continued here as occupied the former Chapter. Moab is first reckoned with, and then Judah, and Israel.... [ Continue Reading ]
CONTENTS The same subject is continued here as occupied the former Chapter. Moab is first reckoned with, and then Judah, and Israel.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 displeasure at Moab, that though the Lord doth And will punish sin wherever it is found, yet the sin most... [ Continue Reading ]
Judah comes now before the Lord's tribunal, and though for a while separated from Israel, yet not from Israel's God. We find the Lord himself speaking of both by the Prophet, under one and the same character. Jeremiah 3:6. Here we ought to pause, and to consider the awfulness of Judah's apostasy fro... [ Continue Reading ]
The Lord having reckoned with all the neighboring nations, Israel's sworn foes, and having also begun with Judah, now takes in hand her sister Israel. And a solemn account it is. Chiefly beginning in idolatry, and consequently soon falling into injustice and oppression. For in the Lord's people, as... [ Continue Reading ]