Amos 2:5

But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem. BUT I WILL SEND A FIRE UPON JUDAH - Nebuchadnezzar....

We now see what sort of crime is that of which the Prophet speaks. At last a threatening follows, “The Lord saith, Fire will I send on Judah, which shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.’ But all this we have already explained. Let us now proceed —...

1-8 The evil passions of the heart break out in various forms; but the Lord looks to our motives, as well as our conduct. Those that deal cruelly, shall be cruelly dealt with. Other nations were reckoned with for injuries done to men; Judah is reckoned with for dishonour done to God. Judah despised the law of the Lord; and he justly gave them up to strong delusion; nor was it any excuse for their sin, that they were the lies, the idols, after which their fathers walked. The worst abominations and most grievous oppressions have been committed by some of the professed worshippers of the Lord. Such conduct leads many to unbelief and vile idolatry....

Verse Amos 2:5. _I WILL SEND A FIRE UPON JUDAH_] This _fire_ was the war made upon the Jews by _Nebuchadnezzar_, which terminated with the sackage and burning of Jerusalem and its _palace_ the _temple_....

I WILL SEND A FIRE UPON JUDAH - All know now, how Jerusalem, its temple, and its palaces perished by fire, first by Nebuchadnezzar, then by the Romans. Yet some two centuries passed, before that first destruction came. The ungodly Jews flattered themselves that it would never come. So we know that a “fiery stream” Daniel 7:10 will issue and come forth from Him; “a fire” that “consumeth to destruction” Job 31:12, all who, whether or no they are in the body of the Church, are not of the heavenly Jerusalem; dead members in the body which belongs to the Living Head. And it will not the less come, because it is not regarded. Rather, the very condition of all God’s judgments is, to be disregarded and to come, and then most to come, when they are most disregarded....

EXPOSITION AMOS 2:1 Judgment on Moab. AMOS 2:1 MOAB. The prophet now denounces the other nation connected by ties of blood with Israel (see on Amos 1:13). Moab's hostility had been shown in the hiring of Balsam to curse the Israelites, and in seducing them to idolatry (Nu 22-25:3). He was their oppressor in the time of the Judges (Judges 3:12); and David had to take most stringent measures against him (2 Samuel 8:2). The Moabites joined in a league against Jehoshaphat ...

BUT I WILL SEND A FIRE UPON JUDAH,.... An enemy, Nebuchadnezzar, who should burn, waste, and destroy, all that were in his way: AND IT SHALL DEVOUR THE PALACES OF JERUSALEM; the chief city of Judah, the royal city, where stood the temple, the palace of the most High, and the palaces of the king and his nobles; these were burnt with fire when it was taken by the Chaldean army, about two hundred years after this prophecy, Jeremiah 52:13....

CHAPTER 2 _ 1. Moab (Amos 2:1) _ 2. Judah (Amos 2:4) 3. Israel (Amos 2:6) Amos 2:1. So fierce was the hatred of Moab that they dishonored the bones of the king of Edom. “Moab burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime” (see 2 Kings 3:26). The fire or judgment came upon Moab and her glory, too, departed like the glory of the other nations. Amos 2:4. While the measure was full of these nations, who had heaped transgressions upon transgressions, Judah and Israel were

AMOS 2:4 F. JUDAH. The genuineness has been questioned by a number of scholars. It is urged that the thought and language are characteristic of the late prophetic school. If the passage is genuine, Judah is reproached (Amos 2:4) with having rejected the direction or instruction of Yahweh (Isaiah 1:10 *) and with having failed to keep His decrees. If it is a later addition, the reference will be to Yahweh's law and His statutes. Judah has been led astray (Amos 2:4) by its lying gods (Heb. lies), the false deities after which their fathers went. Therefore the purging fire (Amos 2:5) will spread eve

JUDAH. The prophet now comes nearer home; and passes sentence on the Southern kingdom....