15<\/strong>. And their king shall go into captivity<\/em>, &c.] into exile<\/strong> ( Amo 1:5<\/em><\/span>). The verse is borrowed by Jeremiah, with slight changes, in his prophecy against the Ammonites (Jer 49:3<\/span>), “For their king shall go into exile, his priests and his princes together” where the addition of ‘priests’ makes it probable that for malcm<\/em> ‘their king,’ we should read, with most of the ancient versions, Milcom<\/em>, the name of the national God of the Ammonites (1Ki 11:5<\/span>, &c.).<\/p>\n And their king – <\/B>The king was commonly, in those nations, the center of their energy. When he and his princes were gone into captivity, there was no one to make head against the conqueror, and renew revolts. Hence, as a first step in the subdual, the reigning head and those who shared his counsels were removed. Ammon then, savage as it was in act, was no ill-organized horde. On the contrary, barren and waste as all that country now is, it must once have been highly cultivated by a settled and laborious people. The abundance of its ruins attests the industry and habits of the population. The whole of the country, says Burckhardt , must have been extremely well cultivated, to have afforded subsistence to the inhabitants of so many towns. The low hills are, for the most part, crowned with ruins. Of the thirty ruined or deserted places, which including Amman, have been even lately counted east of Assalt (the village which probably represents Ramoth-Gilead, about 16 miles west of Philadelphia that is, Amman) several are in Ammonitis. Little as the country has been explored, ruins of large and important towns have been found south-southeast. and south of Amman .<\/P> Two hours southeast of Amman, Buckingham relates , an elevation opened a new view before us, in the same direction. On a little lower level, was a still more extensive track of cultivated plain than that even which we had already passed – Throughout its whole extent were seen ruined towns in every direction, both before, behind, and on each side of us; generally seated on small eminences; all at a short distance from each other; and all, as far as we had yet seen, bearing evident marks of former opulency and consideration. There was not a tree in sight as far as the eye could reach; but my guide, who had been over every part of it, assured me that the whole of the plain was covered with the finest soil, and capable of being made the most productive grain-land in the world – For a space of more than thirty miles there did not appear to me a single interruption of hill, rock or wood, to impede immediate tillage.<\/P> The great plain of Esdraelon, so justly celebrated for its extent and fertility, is inferior in both to this plain of Belkah. Like Esdraelon, it appears to have been once the seat of an active and numerous population; but in the former the monuments of the dead only remain, while here the habitations of the living are equally mingled with the tombs of the departed, all thickly strewn over every part of the soil from which they drew their sustenance. Nor does the crown, of a talent of gold weight, with precious stones 2Sa 12:30<\/span>, belong to an uncivilized people. Such hordes too depend on the will and guidance of their single Skeikh or head. This was a hereditary kingdom 2Sa 10:1<\/span>. The kings of Ammon had their constitutional advisers. These were they who gave the evil and destructive counsel to insult the ambassadors of David. Evil kings have evermore evil counselors. It is ever the curse of such kings to have their own evil, reflected, anticipated, fomented, enacted by bad advisers around them. Hand in hand the wicked shall not be unpunished Pro 11:21<\/span>. They link together, but to drag one another into a common destruction. Together they had counseled against God; king and princes together, they should go into captivity.<\/P> There is also doubtless, in the word Malcham, a subordinate allusion to the god whom they worshiped under the title Molech or Malchom. Certainly Jeremiah seems so to have understood it. For, having said of Moab, Chemosh shall go into captivity, his priests and his princes together Jer 48:7<\/span>, he says as to Ammon, in the self-same formula and almost in the words of Amos ; Malcham shall go into captivity, his priests and his princes together. Zephaniah Zep 1:5<\/span> also speaks of the idol under the same name Malcham, their king. Yet since Ammon had kings before this time, and just before their subdual by Nebuchadnezzar, and king Baalis Jer 40:14<\/span> was a murderer, it is hardly likely that Jeremiah too should not have included him in the sentence of his people, of whose sins he was a mainspring. Probably, then, Amos and Jeremiah foretell, in a comprehensive way, the powerlessness of all their stays, human and idolatrous. All in which they trusted should not only fail them, but should be carried captive from them.<\/P> <\/p>\n Verse 15<\/span>. Their king shall go into captivity<\/B><\/I>] Probably malcham<\/I> should be Milcom<\/I>, who was a chief god of the Ammonites; and the following words, he and his princes<\/I>, may refer to the body<\/I> of his priesthood<\/I>. See 1Kg 11:33<\/span>, and the notes there. All these countries were subdued by Nebuchadnezzar.<\/P> <\/p>\n Their king; <\/B>or Milchore, or Moloch, the idol of the Ammonites, so it signifieth, as well as king. I suppose the prophet may intend both, their god as well as their king shall be carried captive, as was customary with conquerors, 1Sa 5:2<\/span>; Isa 46:2<\/span>. <\/P> He:<\/B> this repeats and confirms the threat, whether it refer to the idol or the king. <\/P> His princes; <\/B>either nobles and ministers of state, who attend and serve the king, or the priests and ministers of the idol; here both may be included, and the utter overthrow of their affairs in religion and state be signified and foretold. <\/P> Saith the Lord:<\/B> this, as elsewhere, doth ratify and insure all; it shall so be, for God hath spoken it. <\/P> <\/p>\n 15. their king . . . princes<\/B>orelse, “their Molech (the idol of Ammon) and his priests”[GROTIUS and Septuagint<\/I>].Isa 43:28<\/span> so uses “princes”for “priests.” So Am5:26<\/span>, “your Molech”; and Jer49:3<\/span>, Margin. English Version,<\/I> however, is perhapspreferable both here and in Jer49:3<\/span>; see on Jer 49:3<\/span>.<\/P><\/p>\n And their king shall go into captivity<\/strong>,…. Not only the common people that are left of the sword shall be carried captive, but their king also. This was, Baalis their last king, who was accessary to the murder of Gedaliah, Jer 40:14<\/span>; whom the king of Babylon had set over the remnant of the Jews left in Judea; which might provoke him to send Nebuzaradan his general against him, who put his country to fire and sword, destroyed his chief city Rabbah, and carried him and his nobles into captivity. Some understand this of Milchom, or Moloch, the god of the children of Ammon, who should be so far from saving them, that he himself should be taken and carried off; it being usual with the conquerors to carry away with them the gods of the nations they conquered; see Jer 48:7<\/span>. So Ptolemy Euergetes king of Egypt, having conquered Callinicus king of Syria, carried captive into Egypt the gods he then took, Da 11:8<\/span>; and it was usual with the Romans to carry the gods of the nations captive which they conquered, and to carry them in their triumphs as such; so Marcellus was blamed for rendering the city of Rome envied and hated by other nations, because not men only, but the gods also, were carried in pomp as captives: and of Paulus Aemylius it is said, that the first day of his triumph was scarce sufficient for the passing along of the captive statues, pictures, and colosses, which were drawn on two hundred and fifty chariots k:<\/p>\n he and his princes together, saith the Lord<\/strong>: which is repeated, and especially the last words added, for the confirmation of it. The Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, read, “their priests and their princes”, as in Jer 49:3<\/span>. This was fulfilled five years after the destruction of Jerusalem, as Josephus l relates.<\/p>\n k Vid. Plutarch. in Vita Marcelli & Aemylii. l Antiqu. l. 10. c. 9. sect. 7. Vid. Judith i. 12.<\/p>\n He finally adds, And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together As מלכם, melcam, was an idol of the people, some regard it here as a proper name; but he says, מלכם הוא ושריו, melcam eva ushariu, ‘their king, he and his princes;’ hence the Prophet, no doubt, names the king of Ammon, for he joins with him his princes. He says then that the ruin of the kingdom would be such, that the king himself would be led captive by the Assyrians. This prediction was no doubt fulfilled, though there is no history of it extant. <\/p>\n (15) Their king<\/strong>.Not as Syrian and Vulg. read the original, Malcam<\/em> or Milcom, i.e.,<\/em> Moloch. E.V. is supported by LXX., Targ., and context of the passage. So far we find the prophet denouncing the sin which trifles with blood, covenants, and ancient agreements, and recognising the responsibilities of race; but closer inspection shows in this, and in Amos 2<\/span>, that the prophet condemns all violations of those natural laws and rights of which he regards Jehovah as custodian and executor.<\/p>\n Amo 1:15<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. <\/strong>And their king, <\/em><\/strong>&c.<\/strong> malkam, <\/em>which some understand of Melchom, <\/em>the god of the Ammonites: but the words adjoined, his princes, <\/em>seem rather to point out the king of the country. <\/p>\n REFLECTIONS.<\/strong>1st, The prophesy opens with an account of the writer Amos, an inhabitant of Tekoa, in the tribe of Judah; a herdsman, <\/em>not brought up in the school of the prophets, nor probably furnished with human literature; but God can make the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and when he speaks, who can but prophesy? <\/em>chap. Amo 3:8<\/span>. <\/p>\n The ten tribes of Israel are chiefly the subject of the prophetic words which God revealed to Amos; and he saw the thing that he declares with the same evidence and clearness, as if they had been presented before his bodily eyes. 2nd, The general tenor of the prophesy before us is intimated in these first words of it. The Lord will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem, <\/em>loud and terrible as the lion roars, or as the voice of mighty thunderings. From between the cherubims, his seat of judgment, he denounces his wrath on the enemies of his believing people; the <\/em>pastures of the shepherds shall mourn, <\/em>terrified with the sound, and the top of Carmel shall wither, <\/em>scorched with the flashing lightnings; or, as it is intimated chap. Amo 4:7<\/span> consumed with drought.<\/em> <\/p>\n The charge <\/em>and sentence <\/em>against these nations are nearly the same. Their multiplied iniquities and idolatries, signified by three <\/em>and four transgressions, <\/em>and above all their persecution and oppression of God’s heritage, cried for vengeance against them; and God, as the prophet declares, had determined their doom; for he spake not of himself, but thus saith the Lord, <\/em>able to execute all the threatenings of his word; and, in this instance, solemnly engaging to do so, I will not turn away the punishment thereof, <\/em>the sentence is gone forth, irreversible, immutable. <\/p>\n 1. Damascus, the capital of Syria, is brought to the bar: besides the general charge of multiplied transgressions, her peculiar iniquity was, that they have threshed Gilead with threshing-instruments of iron, <\/em>so terribly had Hazael ravaged that part of the country, 2Ki 10:32-33<\/span>; 2Ki 13:3-7<\/span>. The wrath of God, therefore, as devouring fire, shall consume the royal palaces and temples of Syria, and the invading enemy besiege and force their way into Damascus, the seat of empire; they shall cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven; <\/em>a delightful valley near it, the scene of their idolatry, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden,<\/em> some pleasure-house probably of the kings of Syria; and the people of Syria shall go<\/em> into captivity unto Kir, saith the Lord, <\/em>one tittle of whose word shall not fail. See the accomplishment of the prophesy, 2Ki 16:9<\/span>. <\/p>\n 2. Gaza, a chief city of the Philistines, is next found guilty and punished. Because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom: <\/em>the event referred to seems to be that recorded 2Ch 21:17<\/span> when they ravaged and plundered the country, and seized all Jehoram’s family except one son, and all his substance; for which the chief cities of Philistia, with the nobles and inhabitants, are doomed to destruction, and the remnant of them shall perish; <\/em>God will leave them neither root nor branch; and such will at last be the fate of all the enemies and persecutors of God’s people. <\/p>\n 3. Tyre, like the other neighbours of Israel, notwithstanding the brotherly covenant <\/em>which had subsisted of old between Solomon and Hiram, spared them not in the day of their calamity, but delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, <\/em>either such as they had seized in some inroad into the country, or those who had fled to Tyre for shelter from the invasion of their enemies; these they delivered up, or sold for slaves to their implacable enemies the Edomites: but the proud walls and palaces of Tyre shall be overthrown in just vengeance for such unkindness; which was executed by Nebuchadnezzar after a thirteen years’ siege. Note; <\/em>Unkindness is doubly grating from those of whom we had just reason to expect every act of friendship. <\/p>\n 4. Edom, with hereditary hatred, persecuted the seed of Jacob; and, though brethren in blood, yet in enmity most inveterate, they pursued them with the sword,<\/em> 2Ch 28:17<\/span> and were ever ready to do them all possible mischief; but it shall be returned upon their own heads, and their cities and palaces shall be destroyed; as was done by Nebuchadnezzar, and afterwards more terribly by the Maccabees, 1Ma 5:28<\/span>. Note; <\/em>(1.) The enmity which arises between nearest relations has usually peculiar malignity. (2.) Such enmity is exceedingly sinful, and will provoke exemplary vengeance against the offenders and the implacable. <\/p>\n 5. The children of Ammon, with Rabbah their capital, are devoted to ruin, and their king and princes doomed to an ignominious captivity; their judgment shall be severe, sudden, and irresistible, as their crimes were atrocious; they have ripped up the woman with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border, <\/em>with most inhuman cruelty massacring the inhabitants, without pity, remorse, or distinction of age, sex, or condition. Note; <\/em>(1.) Covetousness and cruelty are twin sisters; and the inordinate love of money is often seen to harden the heart against all the feelings of humanity. (2.) It is righteous in God, to give those to the spoil whose substance is the gain of oppression and injustice. <\/p>\n Amo 1:15 And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith the LORD.<\/p>\n Ver. 15. And their king shall go into captivity<\/strong> ] Where he may find as little favour as Zedekiah did with Nebuchadnezzar, Valerian with Sapores the Persian, Bajazet with Tamerlane the Scythian; and not so much as Gilimer, king of Vandals, with Belisarius, of whom he requested (and obtained) these three things, a loaf, a spunge, and a harp; a loaf to relieve him, a spunge to wipe his weeping eyes, and a harp to cheer him up in his captivity. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n He and his princes together<\/strong> ] Lords and lowlies shall fare alike; the sword spares neither. And in hell potentes potenter torquebuntur,<\/em> mighty men shall be mightily tormented.<\/p>\n he. Ginsburg thinks it = his priests, with Septuagint. <\/p>\n Jer 49:3<\/p>\n Amo 1:15. To go into captivity merely means to be taken captive by the at-tacking army and be taken from his seat of authority.<\/p>\n And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith the LORD. 15. And their king shall go into captivity, &c.] into exile ( Amo 1:5). The verse is borrowed by Jeremiah, with slight changes, in his prophecy against the Ammonites (Jer 49:3), “For their king shall go into exile, his priests … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Amos 1:15”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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