Bible Commentary

And also I have withheld the rain from you, when [there were] yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered. 7 8. Drought. And I also … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Amos 4:7”

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. 6. Famine. And I also ] i.e. And I on my part [153] in return for your zeal in the observance of a merely … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Amos 4:6”

And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim [and] publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD. 5. offer ] make into sweet smoke (the Homeric , Il. I. 319), a term used technically of the consumption of sacrifices upon the altar (Lev 1:9, … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Amos 4:5”

Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, [and] your tithes after three years: 4. Come to Beth-el, and transgress &c.] The words are meant of course ironically. Amos bids the people come to Beth-el, the principal and most splendid centre of their worship, and transgress, to Gilgal, … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Amos 4:4”

And ye shall go out at the breaches, every [cow at that which is] before her; and ye shall cast [them] into the palace, saith the LORD. 3. shall go out at the breaches ] Amos pictures Samaria as captured, and the self-indulgent ladies forced to leave the city, as captives, through the breaches made … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Amos 4:3”

The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks. 2. Jehovah’s indignation is aroused; and He swears (cf. Amo 6:8, Amo 8:7), that retribution will overtake them for such selfishness and cruelty. hath sworn by … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Amos 4:2”

Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that [are] in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink. 1. Hear this word ] Amo 4:1, Amo 5:1. ye kine of Bashan ] Bashan was the fertile region on the E. of … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Amos 4:1”

And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD. 15. the winter house ] See Jer 36:22. with the summer house ] Eglon (Jdg 3:20) had a “cool upper story,” i.e. an additional apartment, built … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Amos 3:15”

That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground. 14. visit ] Cf. on Amo 3:2. I will also visit ] I will visit: there is no … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Amos 3:14”

Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts, 13. Hear ye, and testify against, &c.] The persons addressed might be the heathen nobles of Philistia and Egypt ( Amo 3:9 b). But in view of the fact that they are not to see, but to hear, … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Amos 3:13”