{"id":22423,"date":"2022-09-24T09:30:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T14:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-amos-42\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T09:30:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T14:30:39","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-amos-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-amos-42\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Amos 4:2"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> 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. <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p> <strong> 2<\/strong>. Jehovah&rsquo;s indignation is aroused; and He <em> swears<\/em> (cf. <span class='bible'>Amo 6:8<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Amo 8:7<\/span>), that retribution will overtake them for such selfishness and cruelty.<\/p>\n<p><em> hath sworn by his holiness<\/em> ] God&rsquo;s holiness is made the pledge of the validity of the oath: so <span class='bible'>Psa 89:35<\/span>; cf. <span class='bible'>Jer 44:26<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong> behold, days are coming<\/strong> &amp;c.] The expression implies a sudden and unexpected reversal of what at present prevails: it occurs besides, <span class='bible'>Amo 8:11<\/span>, Amo 9:13 ; <span class='bible'>1Sa 2:31<\/span>; <span class='bible'>2Ki 20:17<\/span> (= <span class='bible'>Isa 39:6<\/span>), and fifteen times in Jeremiah (<span class='bible'>Jer 7:32<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jer 9:24<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jer 16:14<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jer 19:6<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jer 23:5<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jer 23:7<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jer 30:3<\/span>, &amp;c.).<\/p>\n<p><em> he will take you away with hooks<\/em> &amp;c.] rather, <em> ye shall be taken<\/em> &amp;c. The image is one partly of ignominy, partly of helplessness. The women of Samaria are no longer like fat cattle, proudly disdainful of all who may approach them: they are dragged violently by the foe out of the ease and luxury of their palaces, like fishes out of their native element, the water.<\/p>\n<p><em> your posterity<\/em> ] <em> your<\/em> <strong> residue<\/strong> (R.V.), any of you who happen to escape the &lsquo;hooks&rsquo; of the preceding clause. It is a <em> total<\/em> destruction which the prophet contemplates.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.75em\"><B>The Lord God hath sworn by His holiness &#8211; <\/B>They had sinned to profane His Holy Name (see the note at <span class='bible'>Amo 2:7<\/span>). God swears by that holiness which they had profaned in themselves on whom it was called, and which they had caused to be profaned by others. He pledges His own holiness, that He will avenge their unholiness. : In swearing by His holiness, God sware by Himself. For He is the supreme uncreated justice and Holiness. This justice each, in his degree, should imitate and maintain on earth, and these had sacrilegiously violated and overthrown.<\/P> <P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.75em\"><B>Days shall come (literally, are among) upon you &#8211; <\/B>Gods Day and eternity are ever coming. He reminds them of their continual approach. He says not only that they will certainly come, but they are ever coming. They are holding on their steady course. Each day which passes, they advance a day closer upon the sinner. People put out of their minds what will come; they put far the evil day. Therefore, God so often in His notices of woe to come, (<span class='bible'>1Sa 2:31<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Isa 39:6<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jer 7:32<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jer 9:25<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jer 17:14<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jer 19:6<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jer 23:5<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Jer 23:7<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jer 30:3<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jer 31:27-31<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Jer 31:38<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jer 33:14<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jer 48:12<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jer 49:2<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jer 51:47<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Jer 51:52<\/span>. (Ges.); <span class='bible'>Amo 8:11<\/span>), brings to mind, that those days are ever coming ; they are not a thing which shall be only; in Gods purpose, they already are; and with one uniform steady noiseless tread are coming upon the sinner. Those days shall come upon you, heavily charged with the displeasure of God, crushing you, as ye have crushed the poor. They come doubtless, too, unexpectedly upon them, as our Lords says, and so that day come upon you unwares.<\/P> <P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.75em\"><B>He (that is one) will take you away &#8211; <\/B>In the midst of their security, they should on a sudden be taken away violently from the abode of their luxury, as the fish, when hooked, is lifted out of the water. The image pictures (see <span class='bible'>Hab 1:15<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Eze 29:4-5<\/span>,) their utter helplessness, the contempt in which they would be had, the ease with which they would be lifted out of the flood of pleasures in which they had immersed themselves. People can be reckless, at last, about themselves, so that their posterity escape, and they themselves survive in their offspring. Amos foretells, then, that these also should be swept away.<\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Albert Barnes&#8217; Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P> Verse <span class='bible'>2<\/span>. <I><B>He will take you away with hooks<\/B><\/I>] Two modes of fishing are here alluded to:<\/P> <P> 1. Angling with rod, line, and baited hook.<\/P> <P> 2. That with the gaff, eel-spear, harpoon, or such like; the <I>first<\/I> used in catching <I>small fish<\/I>, by which the <I>common people<\/I> may be here represented; the <I>second<\/I>, for catching large fish, such as leave the sea, and come up the rivers to deposit their spawn; or such as are caught in the sea, as sharks, whales, dolphins, and even the hippopotamus, to which the more <I>powerful<\/I> and <I>opulent<\/I> <I>inhabitants<\/I> may be likened.<\/P> <P> But as the words in the text are generally <I>feminine<\/I>, it has been supposed that the prophecy is against the proud, powerful, voluptuous <I>women<\/I>. I rather think that the prophet speaks catachrestically; and means men of effeminate manners and idle lives. They are not the <I>bulls of Bashan<\/I>, but the <I>cows<\/I>; having little of the manly character remaining. Some understand the latter word as meaning a sort of <I>basket<\/I> or <I>wicker<\/I> <I>fish-nets<\/I>.<\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Adam Clarke&#8217;s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P> I have often told you that God had spoken, now I assure you that the mighty and eternal God hath sworn the thing, and you must therefore needs conclude it sure and certain. <\/P> <P><B>He hath sworn by his holiness, <\/B>by himself, as he is the holy God, and cannot lie: see <span class='bible'>Psa 89:35<\/span>. <\/P> <P><B>The days<\/B> of darkness, slaughter, famine, desolation, and captivity, threatened against you, shall come upon you, oppressors that crush the poor. <\/P> <P><B>He will take; <\/B>God by the Assyrian army under Shalmaneser, nay, before that time you shall be taken, as fish are taken with the hook, during the intestine wars that are coming upon you. <\/P> <P><B>You, <\/B>who now live, and hear the word of Amos and Hoses, but notwithstanding do continue to act the same violence still. <\/P> <P><B>With hooks, <\/B>or thorns, as the Hebrew, with which they did pierce the greater fish, before they had the skill of making iron darts, as some observe. <\/P> <P><B>Your posterity; <\/B>the children of these oppressors. <\/P> <P><B>With fish-hooks; <\/B>shall be taken as silly fish, and as easily carried away; the enemy shall with delight insnare and destroy them. <\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P><B>2. The Lord<\/B>the same <I>Hebrew<\/I>as &#8220;masters&#8221; (<span class='bible'>Am 4:1<\/span>).Israel&#8217;s nobles say to their master or lord, Bring us drink: but &#8220;theLord&#8221; of him and them &#8220;hath sworn,&#8221; c. <\/P><P>       <B>by his holiness<\/B>whichbinds Him to punish the guilty (<span class='bible'>Ps89:35<\/span>). <\/P><P>       <B>he will take yon away<\/B>thatis God by the instrumentality of the enemy. <\/P><P>       <B>with hooks<\/B>literally,&#8221;thorns&#8221; (compare <span class='bible'>2Ch33:11<\/span>). As fish are taken out of the water by hooks, so theIsraelites are to be taken out of their cities by the enemy (<span class='bible'>Eze29:4<\/span> compare <span class='bible'>Job 41:1<\/span>;<span class='bible'>Job 41:2<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jer 16:16<\/span>;<span class='bible'>Hab 1:15<\/span>). The image is the moreappropriate, as anciently captives were led by their conquerors by ahook made to pass through the nose (<span class='bible'>2Ki19:28<\/span>), as is to be seen in the Assyrian remains.<\/P><\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown&#8217;s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible <\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong>The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness<\/strong>,&#8230;. That is, by himself, holiness being his nature, and an essential attribute of his; this is done to ascertain the truth of what is after said, and that men may be assured of the certain performance of it. Some render it, &#8220;by his holy place&#8221;; and interpret it of heaven; so Aben Ezra and Kimchi; which is not likely; see <span class='bible'>Mt 5:34<\/span>. The Targum is,<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;the Lord God hath sworn by his word in his holiness;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>that, lo, the days shall come upon you<\/strong>; speedily, swiftly, and at an unawares:<\/p>\n<p><strong>that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fish hooks<\/strong>; the enemy, the king of Assyria, or God by him, would take them out of their own land, as fish out of water, out of their own element, and carry them captive into a strange land, both them and their posterity; and which should be as easily done as fish are taken with the hook, even though they were as the kine of Bashan. The word for fish hooks signifies &#8220;thorns&#8221; p, and is by some so rendered; these perhaps being used in angling, before iron hooks were invented. The Targum is,<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;that people shall take you away on their shields, and your daughters in fishermen&#8217;s q boats;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> see <span class='bible'>Jer 16:16<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>p  &#8220;spinis&#8221;, Mercerus, Liveleus, Drusius, Grotius. q So it is interpreted by R. Sol Urbin Ohel Moed, fol. 65. 2. likewise Elias says the word signifies a small ship, or a boat that is in a large ship, Tishbi, p. 59. So Vatablus interprets it, &#8220;scaphas piscatorias, [sive] cymbas&#8221;; and some in Munster.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> Here Amos declares what sort of punishment awaited those fat cattle, who being well fed despised God, and were torpid in their fatness. He therefore says, that the days were nigh, when they should be taken away together with all that they had, and all their posterity, as by a hook of a fisher. <\/p>\n<p> But to give more effect to his combination, he says that God  had sworn by his sanctuary.   (24) The simple word of God ought indeed to have been sufficient: but as we do not easily embrace the promises of God, so also hypocrites and the reprobate are not easily terrified by his threatening; but they laugh to scorn, or at least regard as empty, what God&#8217;s servants declare. It was then necessary that God should interpose this oath, that secure men might be more effectually aroused. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>The Lord then has sworn by his sanctuary&#8221;. It is singular that God should swear by his temple rather than by himself: and this seems strange; for the Lord is wont to swear by himself for this reason, &#8212; because there is none greater by whom he can swear, as the Apostle says, (<span class='bible'>Heb 6:13<\/span>.) God then seems to transfer the honor due to himself to stones and wood; which appears by no means consistent. But the name of the temple amounts to the same thing as the name of God. God then says that he had sworn by the sanctuary, because he himself is invisible, and the temple was his ostensible image, by which he exhibited himself as visible: it was also a sign and symbol of religion, where the face of God shone forth. God did not then divest himself of his own glory, that he might adorn with it the temple; but he rather accommodated himself here to the rude state of men; for he could not in himself be known, but in a certain way appeared to them in the temple. Hence he swore by the temple. <\/p>\n<p> But the special reason, which interpreters have not pointed out, ought to be noticed, and that is, that God, by swearing by his sanctuary, repudiated all the fictitious forms of worship in which the Israelites gloried, as we have already seen. The meaning is this, &#8212; &#8220;God, who is rightly worshipped on mount Zion, and who seeks to be invoked there only, swears by himself; and though holiness dwells in himself alone, he yet sets before you the symbol of his holiness, the sanctuary at Jerusalem: he therefore repudiates all your forms of worship, and regards your temples as stews or brothels.&#8221; We hence see that there is included in this expression a contrast between the sanctuary, where the Jews rightly and legitimately worshipped God, and the spurious temples which Jeroboam built, and also the high places where the Israelites imagined that they worshipped him. We now then understand what is meant by the words, that God  sware by his sanctuary  <\/p>\n<p> And he sware by his sanctuary, that  the days would come,  yea, were  nigh,  in which they should be  taken away with hooks,  or with shields.  &#1510;&#1504;&#1492;,  tsane,  means in Hebrew to be cold:  (25) but  &#1510;&#1504;&#1493;&#1514;,  tsanut  denotes shields in that language, and sometimes fishing-hooks. Some yet think that the instrument by which the flesh is pulled off is intended, as though the Prophet still alluded to his former comparison. But another thing, which is wholly different, seems to be meant here, and that is, that these fat cows would be drawn out as a little fish by a hook; for afterwards he mentions a thorn or a hook again. It is the same as though he had said, &#8220;Ye are indeed of great weight, and ye are very heavy through your fatness; but this your grossness will not prevent God from quickly taking you away, as when one draws out a fish by a hook.&#8221; We see how well these two different similitudes harmonize: &#8220;Ye are now trusting in your own fatness, but God will draw you forth as if ye were of no weight at all: ye shall therefore be dragged away by your enemies, not as fat cows but as small fishes, and a hook will be sufficient, which will draw you away into remote lands.&#8221; This change ought to have seriously affected the Israelites, when they understood that they would be stripped of their fatness and wealth, and then taken away as though they were small fishes, that a hook was enough, and that there would be no need of large wagons. It follows &#8212; <\/p>\n<p>  (24) This word is commonly rendered &#8216;holiness,&#8217; though it is also used to denote &#8216;the sanctuary.&#8217; Calvin has been blamed for taking it here in the latter sense. What induced him to do so is evident from his comment: and when we consider all the circumstances of the passage, we may perhaps be disposed to think him right. &#8212;  Ed.  <\/p>\n<p>  (25) It is once applied in <span class='bible'>Pro 25:13<\/span>, to denote the piercing cold of snow; but its ideal meaning seems to be, pointed, piercing, penetrating: hence it means a thorn, a goad, and also a fishing-hook. &#8212;  Ed.  <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Calvin&#8217;s Complete Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>(2) <strong>Fishhooks.<\/strong>Descriptive of the suddenness and irresistible character of the seizure, whereby, as a punishment for their wanton selfishness, the nobles were to be carried away as captives from their condition of fancied security. The strangeness of the imagery has led to a variety of interpretations. Dderlein translates ye shall be driven into thorny districts, and among thorn bushes.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Ellicott&#8217;s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> <strong> 2<\/strong>. <strong> <\/strong> This shameful conduct has aroused the anger of Jehovah. <\/p>\n<p><strong> Hath sworn <\/strong> An anthropomorphism. As a man affirms a statement by an oath and thus makes certain its fulfillment, so Jehovah is represented as having affirmed the sentence of doom by an oath (<span class='bible'>Amo 6:8<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Amo 8:7<\/span>; compare <span class='bible'>Gen 15:9-18<\/span>). <\/p>\n<p><strong> By his holiness <\/strong> Mitchell renders, &ldquo;by his sacred, awe-inspiring personality.&rdquo; Jehovah has pledged his holiness that he will fulfill his threat. The expression is practically equivalent to &ldquo;by himself&rdquo; (<span class='bible'>Amo 6:8<\/span>). A.B. Davidson says, &ldquo;The two phrases have virtually the same sense.&rdquo; <em> &ldquo;Holy <\/em> as applied to Jehovah is an expression that in some way describes him as God, either generally or on any particular side of his nature, the manifestation or thought of which impresses men with the sense of his Godhead.&rdquo; For a discussion of <em> holiness <\/em> see on <span class='bible'>Hos 11:9<\/span>. <\/p>\n<p><strong> That, lo, the days shall come <\/strong> Better, <em> Lo, the days are about to come <\/em> (see on <span class='bible'>Amo 2:13<\/span>). The conjunction translated &ldquo;that&rdquo; serves here to introduce the direct address (G.-K., 157b). <strong> He will <\/strong> [&ldquo;they shall&rdquo;] Literally, <em> one shall take you <\/em> you shall be taken (G.-K., 144d). The prophet expects the punishment to take the form of an exile (<span class='bible'>Amo 5:27<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Amo 6:7<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Amo 7:17<\/span>). <\/p>\n<p><strong> With hooks <\/strong> Both words so translated mean primarily <em> thorns; <\/em> probably the latter served as fishhooks to primitive man. The figure apparently changes in <span class='bible'>Amo 4:2<\/span> to that of catching fish. As fish are taken by fishermen with hooks, so the women are to be carried away by the foreign invader (<span class='bible'>Hab 1:14<\/span>). The picture may be based upon the Assyrian custom alluded to also in <span class='bible'>Isa 37:29<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Eze 29:4<\/span> (compare Rawlinson, <em> Seven Great Monarchies, <\/em> i, plate 35). Some, to retain the figure of <span class='bible'>Amo 4:1<\/span>, understand it to allude to the putting of hooks into the nostrils of unruly cattle, &ldquo;but so many should the <em> cattle <\/em> of Samaria be, that for the last of them <em> fishhooks <\/em> must be used.&rdquo; Marti understands both words to designate hooks in general, and he thinks that the prophet has in mind the removal of the carcasses of the fat cattle with hooks put in the nose and the hinder part. Whatever the basis of the picture, the figure is one of absolute helplessness. <\/p>\n<p><strong> Posterity <\/strong> R.V., &ldquo;residue.&rdquo; <em> Posterity <\/em> cannot be correct, since the prophet looks for the judgment in the immediate future (<span class='bible'>Amo 7:17<\/span>); the thought is &ldquo;every last one of you&rdquo;; not one shall escape.<\/p>\n<p> In <span class='bible'>Amo 4:3<\/span> the figurative language is abandoned. <\/p>\n<p><strong> Ye shall go out <\/strong> As captives. <\/p>\n<p><strong> At the breaches <\/strong> Made by the besiegers. <\/p>\n<p><strong> Every cow at that which is before her <\/strong> Better, R.V., &ldquo;every one straight before her,&rdquo; which some interpret to mean that there will be no need of looking for a gate, since the breaches are so numerous (<span class='bible'>Jos 6:5<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jos 6:20<\/span>); others, without turning to the right or to the left; hurriedly they will be driven away &ldquo;as a herd of cows go one after another through a gap in a fence.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p><strong> Ye shall cast them <\/strong> The context fails to indicate who is addressed. This difficulty was felt by the Revisers, who translate, without warrant in the Hebrew, &ldquo;ye shall cast yourselves,&rdquo; and state in the margin, &ldquo;The text (including the next two words) is obscure.&rdquo; The difficulty vanishes if one vowel point is altered; then it may be translated &ldquo;ye shall be cast,&rdquo; that is, by your captors. <\/p>\n<p><strong> Into the palace <\/strong> R.V., &ldquo;into Harmon.&rdquo; A.V. is incorrect. The word is the name of the city or district to which the women are to be exiled. Concerning the identification of the locality there exists disagreement both among the ancient versions and among modern commentators. A few of the latter consider the case hopeless; many attempt emendations, but none are quite satisfactory. In all probability the text is corrupt. If it is the name of a city or district it must lie &ldquo;beyond Damascus&rdquo; (<span class='bible'>Amo 5:27<\/span>). The district suggested by three of the ancient versions (Peshitto, Targum, Symmachus), and by Jerome in a note, namely, Armenia, would meet this condition, and this translation might be defended on linguistic grounds without serious difficulties.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Whedon&#8217;s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> Amo 4:2 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.<\/p>\n<p> Ver. 2. <strong> The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness<\/strong> ] He hath sworn for more assurance, <span class='bible'>Heb 6:16-18<\/span> , it being hard to persuade secure sinners of the certainty and infallibility of the threatenings; which yet will as surely befall them without repentance, as the coat is on their back, or the heart in their bodies. And, &#8220;by his holiness,&#8221; he hath sworn; that is, by himself (as having none greater to swear by); confer Gen 22:16 <span class='bible'>Jer 51:14<\/span> <span class='bible'>Isa 45:23<\/span> ; <span class='bible'>Isa 62:8<\/span> , where God swears by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength. <span class='bible'>Exo 17:16<\/span> , he is brought in laying his hand upon his throne, and swearing to root out Amalek. And so some in this place think, that by God&rsquo;s holiness is meant heaven, the habitation of his holiness, and of his glory, <span class='bible'>Isa 63:15<\/span> . But Drusius dislikes that, because swearing by heaven is condemned by Christ, <span class='bible'>Mat 5:34<\/span> . If God be holiness itself, let him be sanctified in righteousness, <span class='bible'>Isa 5:16<\/span> , and let men swear (when called to it, and not till then; the Hebrew word <em> Neshbang<\/em> here used is passive, and signifieth to be sworn, rather than to swear) &#8220;in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness,&#8221; <span class='bible'>Jer 4:2<\/span> . <\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/p>\n<p> Behold, the days come<\/strong> ] <em> Certo et cito,<\/em> surely and suddenly: even those dismal days of blackness and darkness, of greatest calamities; see <span class='bible'>Amo 5:18<\/span> ; <span class='bible'>Amo 5:20<\/span> . And let this prediction be to you as the knuckles of a man&rsquo;s hand, to write you your destiny; or as a prophet, to read it unto you. <\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/p>\n<p> That he will take you away<\/strong> ] <em> i.e.<\/em> Ye shall be taken away, and hurried into another country; like as <span class='bible'>Isa 8:4<\/span> , He shall take away the spoil of Samaria, <em> i.e.<\/em> It shall be surely taken away; so <span class='bible'>Luk 12:20<\/span> , They do require thy soul (  ), that is, it shall be required of thee. <\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/p>\n<p> With hooks<\/strong> ] Heb. with thorns, which were wont to be used in fishing, till iron hooks were more frequent. See Job 40:24 <span class='bible'>Eze 29:4<\/span> ; <span class='bible'>Eze 19:4<\/span> , They brought him with hooks, that is, with chains, into the land of Egypt. Those that were overcome were wont to be linked and langold together; and so led captive by their conquerors. <\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/p>\n<p> And your posterity with fishhooks<\/strong> ] Heb. that which is last of you; your children, and nephews, as <span class='bible'>Dan 11:4<\/span> . It is foretold of Alexander the Great that none of his race shall succeed him, but strangers. See enemies compared to fishers, <span class='bible'>Jer 16:16<\/span> <span class='bible'>Hab 1:16<\/span> ; and note, that hereby is intimated, that these insolent dames shall be no more like fat kine, that abide in their pastures; but as fishes hanging on the hook, that are easily pulled up, and quickly carried away with little labour, but much delight to the fisher. See a like comparison from swimming, <span class='bible'>Isa 25:11<\/span> , the motion wherein is easy and not strong; to show, that God can subdue his stoutest adversaries with greatest ease.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Trapp&#8217;s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>The Lord GOD. See note on Amo 1:7. <\/p>\n<p>sworn by His holiness. Reference to Pentateuch (Gen 22:16). <\/p>\n<p>lo. Figure of speech Asferismos. App-6. <\/p>\n<p>hooks. In the Assyrian monuments we see the captives with literal &#8220;hooks&#8221; in their noses. Compare 2Ch 33:11. Job 40:24; Job 41:2. Isa 37:29. Eze 29:4. <\/p>\n<p>your posterity = the remnant of you. Hebrew. &#8216;aharith, as in Eze 23:25. Not posterity. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Psa 89:35 <\/p>\n<p>hath sworn: Amo 6:8 <\/p>\n<p>he will: Isa 37:29, Jer 16:16, Eze 39:4, Eze 39:5, Hab 1:15, Hab 1:16 <\/p>\n<p>Reciprocal: 2Ki 19:28 &#8211; I will put Psa 60:6 &#8211; God Psa 108:7 &#8211; spoken Eze 29:4 &#8211; I will put Eze 30:9 &#8211; lo Amo 4:12 &#8211; thus<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Amo 4:2. There is virtually no difference in the meaning of hook and fishhook. Each of them may mean a hook in the ordinary sense of the word, or it may refer to a thorn from a tree; again they may have specific reference to a metal ring that was originally made for the control of a vicious animal hy running it through his nose. This is the origin of the expression &#8220;leading one around by the nose&#8221; when speaking of someone who humbly does what a domineering person demands. In view of the indefinite uses and meanings of the word, we should take our verse to denote that the evil characters of Israel were to be treated with the cruelty and humiliation they deserved.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Amo 4:2. The Lord hath sworn by his holiness  As sure as God is holy and true, so certainly will he bring the threatened judgment upon you; that he will take you away with hooks  The original word in the masculine is used for thorns; but in the feminine it signifies shields. So that, perhaps, a fishing instrument may be denoted, which, like some now in our use, resembled a shield, or a basket, in its form. Our translators render the word hooks, from their analogy to thorns.  Newcome. And your posterity  Or remainder; with fish-hooks  Invaders and spoilers are often compared to fishers. The sense here seems to be, that the several invaders of Israel, coming after one another, should make an entire riddance of the whole nation, so that their posterity, or remainder, which had escaped the first invaders, should certainly fall into the hands of those that came after.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>4:2 The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with {c} hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.<\/p>\n<p>(c) He alludes to fishers, who catch fish by hooks or thorns.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Sovereign Yahweh had not just said what He would do, but He had sworn that He would do it. When God swore He provided an additional guarantee, in addition to His word, that He would indeed do something (cf. Gen 22:16-17; Isa 62:8; Jer 44:26; Heb 6:16-18). He made this solemn declaration in harmony with His holiness. As surely as God is separate from humankind and cannot tolerate sin, these women would surely suffer His judgment one day.<\/p>\n<p>An enemy would cart them off as butchers carry beef with large meat hooks and as fishermen carry fish with hooks. This description may imply that the enemy would tie them in lines with ropes and lead them away since this is how fishermen strung their fish on lines. Carved reliefs that archaeologists have found show Assyrians leading people by a rope attached to a ring in the jaw or lip of their captives.<span style=\"color:#808080\"> [Note: See Leonard W. King, Annals of the Kings of Assyria, pp. 116-20, 125-26.] <\/span> Alternatively it may mean that their dead bodies would be disposed of as so much meat.<span style=\"color:#808080\"> [Note: J. H. Hayes, Amos, pp. 140-41.] <\/span> The enemy would carry the bodies of these women (living or dead) off through breaches in Samaria&rsquo;s walls. The women would be carried off without any complications; each one would go straight ahead to captivity or to burial through any one of the many passageways made through the broken walls.<\/p>\n<p>The enemy would take them to Harmon, perhaps an alternative spelling of Mt. Hermon. Some scholars believe the meaning of &quot;Harmon&quot; is uncertain, though it appears to be the name of some site. Mt. Hermon was to the north of Bashan, so these cows of Bashan would end up near Bashan. This is, in fact, the direction the Assyrians took the Israelite captives as they deported them to Assyria.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Those who oppress the poor and crush the needy in order to support an extravagant lifestyle can expect God&rsquo;s harsh judgment to fall upon them.&quot;<span style=\"color:#808080\"> [Note: Smith, p. 86.] <\/span><\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Expository Notes of Dr. Constable (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&rsquo;s indignation is aroused; and He swears (cf. 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