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Verse Amos 2:14. _THE FLIGHT SHALL PERISH FROM THE SWIFT_] The
swiftest shall not be able to save himself from a swifter destruction.
None, by might, by counsel, or by fleetness, shall be able to esca...
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Israel relied, against God, on his own strength. “Have we not,”
they said, “taken to us horns by our own strength?” Amos 6:13.
Amos tells them then, that every means of strength, resistance,
flight, s...
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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 bo
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THE SIN AND DOOM OF ISRAEL. Suddenly the prophet turns and confronts
Israel. The benighted heathen nations have sinned and must be
punished. What of Israel, God's chosen people? Why, just because they...
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HIMSELF. his soul. Hebrew nephesh. App-13....
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The retribution....
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A disaster, in which neither the swiftest nor the best equipped
warrior will be able to escape, brings the kingdom of Israel to its
end.
_Therefore_ simply AND (as R.V.).
_the flight shall perish fro...
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Amos 2:6. The sin of Israel, and its punishment
6 16. At last Amos comes to Israel. The Israelites might listen with
equanimity, or even with satisfaction, whilst their neighbours" faults
were being e...
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_MORE ABOUT ISRAEL'S TRANSGRESSIONS -- AMOS 2:11-16:_ God raised up
some of the sons of the children of Israel to be prophets. Some of the
young men dedicated themselves to be Nazirites. Prophets stoo...
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PUNISHMENT PROMISED, THE COVENANT NATIONSISRAEL
TEXT: Amos 2:13-16
13
Behold, I will press you in your place, as a cart presseth that is
full of sheaves.
14
And flight shall perish from the swift...
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2:14 flight (e-2) Or 'refuge,' as Jeremiah 25:35 ....
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RABBAH] on the banks of the Upper Jabbok (2 Samuel 11:12). The
shouting means the war-cry.
15. Some of the ancient translations, with which Jeremiah 49:3 (see
RV) agrees, understand this v. as referri...
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ISRAEL'S SINS AND INGRATITUDE
6-8. Israel is now threatened in the same form as the rest, but Amos
2:6 were not spoken by Amos at Bethel; they form the conclusion of the
preface which he wrote after...
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THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD
AMOS
_MARK KIRKPATRICK_
CHAPTER 2
PUNISHMENT FOR MOAB’S PEOPLE
V1 This is what the *Lord says: ‘I will certainly punish the people
in Moab for their man...
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This doom Amos darkly foreshadows to be invasion and military
overthrow, with all its attendant calamities....
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וְ אָבַ֤ד מָנֹוס֙ מִ קָּ֔ל וְ חָזָ֖ק
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ATROCITIES AND ATROCITIES
Amos 1:3 - Amos 2:1
LIKE all the prophets of Israel, Amos receives oracles for foreign
nations. Unlike them, however, he arranges these oracles not after,
but before, his in...
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NEITHER SHALL ISRAEL ESCAPE
Amos 2:6-16
First the prophet enumerates Israel's sins. They were unjust to the
poor, carrying their extortions to such lengths as to goad the poor to
desperation. They we...
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Having thus uttered the word of God concerning the surrounding
nations, thereby revealing the fact of His government over all, the
prophet turned to Judah, and declared that she also was to share the...
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Therefore the flight shall perish from the (l) swift, and the strong
shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver
himself:
(l) None will be delivered by any means....
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_Swift. Jeroboam I. Other kings are described afterwards. (St. Jerome)
--- In the latter times all was in confusion. (Calmet)_...
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The Lord having reckoned with all the neighboring nations, Israel's
sworn foes, and having also begun with Judah, now takes in hand her
sister Israel. And a solemn account it is. Chiefly beginning in...
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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...
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I explained yesterday the verse, in which the Prophet says, in the
name of God, that the people were like a grievous and heavy burden, as
though they were a wagon laden with many sheaves. I stated tha...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 AND 2.
In the outset Jehovah, proclaiming His own rights from the place of
His own throne, roars from Zion and utters His voice from Jerusalem.
Afterwards,...
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THEREFORE THE FLIGHT SHALL PERISH FROM THE SWIFT,.... They should be
so straitened and cooped up, and be so loaded with pressures, that
those, as swift of foot as Asahel, should not be able to make th...
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Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall
not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:
Ver. 14. _Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift_]...
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_Behold I am pressed under you_ Your sins have quite tired out my
patience, and I am weary with bearing them: compare Isaiah 43:24;
Malachi 2:17. In this sense the clause is understood by the LXX. and...
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Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, literally, "is lost
to the swift," he will not have time to escape, AND THE STRONG SHALL
NOT STRENGTHEN HIS FORCE, NEITHER SHALL THE MIGHTY DELIVER HI...
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AGAINST ISRAEL...
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HIMSELF:
_ Heb._ his soul or life...
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9-16 We need often to be reminded of the mercies we have received;
which add much to the evil of the sins we have committed. They had
helps for their souls, which taught them how to make good use of...
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THEREFORE; because they first loaded God with their sins, and now he
loads them with punishments, no way of escape shall be left. THE
FLIGHT SHALL PERISH FROM THE SWIFT; not by swiftness of foot fleei...
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Amos 2:14 flight H4498 perish H6 (H8804) swift H7031 strong H2389
strengthen H553 (H8762) power H3581 mighty...
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THE CERTAINTY OF HIS JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL. IT WILL BE SUCH THAT IT WILL
BE INESCAPABLE (AMOS 2:13).
Israel's judgment is now described in terms of being run over by a
heavy cart, fully loaded, and it wi...
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YHWH'S JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL (AMOS 2:6).
While this judgment on Israel certainly initially follows the previous
sevenfold pattern it is distinctive in that it manifestly then goes on
to break it. There i...
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CONTENTS: Judgments pronounced upon Judah, Moab and Israel.
CHARACTERS: God, Amos.
CONCLUSION: To keep not the commandments of God's Word, making no
conscience of them, is to despise the wisdom, jus...
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Amos 2:2. _Kirioth,_ a city of Moab, having palaces. Jeremiah 48:24.
Amos 2:6. _For three transgressions of Israel._ This phrase, explained
in Amos 1:3, is repeate
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_Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong
shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver
himself._
EFFECT OF SIN ON THE SINNER
We have here the supplement t...
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AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 2:6 In the introduction to this section (Amos
2:6), Amos shows that Israel, far from being better than its
neighbors, is even more worthy of condemnation. This is followed by
four ex...
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AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 2:14 The SWIFT will not be able to run away from
coming destruction, and the STRONG and MIGHTY warrior will not be able
to withstand it....
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
Amos 2:6. ISRAEL] The ten tribes the main object of the prophecy.
First, prevalent crimes of injustice and oppression, shameless
immorality, and daring contempt of God.
AMOS 2:6. SO...
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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
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Let's turn now to the book of Amos. In the first verse of Amos he
introduces himself.
These are the words of Amos, who was among the herdmen [or a shepherd]
at Tekoa (Amos 1:1),
Now Tekoa is a little...
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Amos 9:1; Ecclesiastes 9:11; Isaiah 30:16; Jeremiah 9:23; Job 11:20...
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The swift — For their enemies shall be swifter than they. The strong
— Natural strength of body shall not deliver. The mighty — The
valiant man, the man of the greatest courage....