Amos 5:24
What meaning of the amos 5:24 in the Bible?
What does Amos 5:24 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream."
What does Amos 5:24 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream."
Verse Amos 5:24. _LET JUDGMENT RUN DOWN_] Let the execution of justice be everywhere like the _showers_ that fall upon the land to render it fertile; and let righteousness in _heart_ and _life_ be lik...
BUT - (And) let judgment run down (Literally, “roll” English margin) “like water.” The duties of either table include both; since there is no true love for man without the love of God, nor any real lo...
CHAPTER 5 The Third Discourse _ 1. The lamentation (Amos 5:1) _ 2. Seek the Lord and ye shall live (Amos 5:4) 3. The wailing (Amos 5:16) 4. The captivity announced (Amos 5:21) Amos 5:1. This chap...
ISRAEL'S DELUSIONS. The prophet resumes the subject of Israel's delusions, how she disregards the essential conditions of real welfare. In Amos 5:18 he deals with a peculiar example of this, the conce...
RUNDOWN. roll on. Reference to Gilgal MIGHTY. inexhaustible. STREAM. Hebrew. _nahal =_. wady, or intermittent stream; not nahar,. constant-flowing river....
Do you think to win Jehovah's favour by your religious services? On the contrary, He will have none of them: what He demands is not sacrifice, or even praise, but _justice_; in the wilderness your anc...
_WHAT THE LORD DEMANDS -- AMOS 5:21-27 _ The children of Israel stilled assembled before God to conduct solemn assemblies or religious celebrations. Sadly, God took no delight in their times of worshi...
RIGHTEOUSNESS DEMANDS REPENTANCERID RELIGION OF HYPOCRISY TEXT: Amos 5:21-27 21 I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies. 22 Yea, though ye offer me you...
But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. BUT LET JUDGMENT - justice. RUN DOWN - literally, roll, i:e., flow abundantly (). Without the desire to fulfill righteo...
THE THIRD ADDRESS 1-6. A lament, a warning, and an invitation. 7, 10-20. Denunciation of injustice and oppression, with threats of pestilence and judgment. 21-27. A repudiation of their attempt to...
THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 5 GOD ENCOURAGES ISRAEL’S PEOPLE TO COME BACK TO HIM V1 People in Israel, listen to this song. ‘This funeral song is ab...
MIGHTY STREAM. — Or rather _perennial stream. _...
וְ יִגַּ֥ל כַּ † מַּ֖יִם מִשְׁפָּ֑ט וּ צְדָקָ֖ה כְּ נַ֥חַל אֵיתָֽן׃...
2. FOR WORSHIP, JUSTICE Amos 5:1 In the next of these groups of oracles Amos continues his attack on the national ritual, and now contrasts it with the service of God in public life-the relief of th...
A DARK DAY FOR HYPOCRITES Amos 5:16-27 Mighty sins had been committed, and mighty judgments were at hand. The oppression of the poor, Amos 5:11; the erection of elegant dwellings from unrighteous ex...
The third discourse was a description of Jehovah's judgment. This opened with a lamentation for the virgin of Israel, "The virgin of Israel is fallen, she shall no more rise, she is cast down upon her...
But let judgment run down as (m) waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. (m) Do your duty to God, and to your neighbour, and so you will plentifully feel his grace, if you show your abundant af...
_Mighty. Hebrew, "Ethan." Let your virtue appear, or the greatest miseries will shortly overwhelm you. (Calmet)_...
We have here the Lord's threatenings concerning the captivity of the people, and which we know came to pass. Stephen, the first martyr, made a quotation from this scripture. Acts 7:42. But what I part...
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. "The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the...
Interpreters variously expound this verse. To some it seems an exhortation, as though the Prophet said, “Ye thrust on me victims of beasts and various ceremonies; but I regard not these things; for th...
After having deplored the ruin of Israel, He contrasts the places of their false worship with Jehovah, the Creator, and exhorts them to come unto Him and live. But Israel put off the thought of the ev...
BUT LET JUDGMENTS RUN DOWN AS WATERS,.... Or "roll" o; in abundance, with great rapidity, bearing down all before them, which nothing can resist; signifying the plenty of justice done in the land, the...
But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. Ver. 24. _But let judgment run down_] Heb. roll down freely, plentifully, and plainly, _ut devolutus monte praecipiti torren...
_I hate and despise your feast-days_ This and the three following verses are the same in sense with Isaiah 1:11, and the other texts referred to in the margin, on which the reader is desired to consul...
WOE UPON FOOLS AND HYPOCRITES...
RUN DOWN: _ Heb._ rule...
18-27 Woe unto those that desire the day of the Lord's judgments, that wish for times of war and confusion; as some who long for changes, hoping to rise upon the ruins of their country! but this shoul...
BUT, Heb. _And_ JUDGMENT: some interpret this of penal judgment, by God threatened against these hypocrites; but it is better understood of justice to be administered by rulers, whose office it was to...
Amos 5:24 justice H4941 down H1556 (H8735) water H4325 righteousness H6666 mighty H386 stream H5158 let - Amos 5:7, Amos 5:14-15; Job 29:12-17; Proverbs 21:3; Hosea 6:6;...
THE FIRST WOE, CONCERNING THE DAY OF YHWH (AMOS 5:18). A ‘woe' was the opposite of a ‘blessed be you of YHWH'. It was the announcing of troubles and disaster that would come on His people directly fr...
Amos 5:4. _For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:_ And that it just the message of God to professing Christians now: «Seek ye me.» Get away from your mere ce...
CONTENTS: God's lamentation over Israel and captivity foretold. The day of the Lord. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: If men will not take a right course to obtain the favor of God, God will take an eff...
Amos 5:2. _The virgin of Israel is fallen._ Babylon, which had never been stormed by a besieging army, is called a virgin. Isaiah 47:1. Thus Israel, whose kingdom had never yet been wholly subdued, is...
_I hate, I despise your feast days._ THE DIVINELY ABHORRENT AND THE DIVINELY DEMANDED I. The Divinely abhorrent. The same aversion from the ceremonial observances of the insincere and rebellious Isra...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 5:24. Run] judgments like a flood over the land [_Keil_]. Others take it as an exhortation to practise justice and truth. _HOMILETICS_ JUDGMENTS LIKE A FLOOD.—_Amos 5:24_ Th...
EXPOSITION VERSE 1-CH. 6:14 § 8. _Third address_:_ the prophet utters a lamentation over the fall of Israel_. (Amos 6:1.) He calls her to repentance, while he shows wherein she has declined from the...
Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation (Amos 5:1), Weeping over the house of Israel now. The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her l...
Amos 5:14; Amos 5:15; Amos 5:7; Hosea 6:6; Job 29:12; Micah 6:8; Mark 12:32; Proverbs 21:3...
Let judgment — Let justice be administered constantly. Righteousness — Equity. Stream — Bearing down all that opposes it....