Commentary Critical and Explanatory
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.
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.
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...
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
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, Ju...
JUDAH. The prophet now comes nearer home; and passes sentence on the Southern kingdom....
_But I will send a fire upon Judah_, &c. hence, with verbal variations, Jeremiah 17:27 _b._In the case of Judah, Amos's threat did not take effect for more than a century and a half: the -fire" did no...
_THE TRANSGRESSIONS OF JUDAH -- AMOS 2:4-5:_ Judah, the people of God had despised and rejected His word so they heard the same statement, "For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not...
I WILL SEND A FIRE UPON JUDAH— The war commenced in Judah, at the end of the reign of Jotham son of Uzziah, when the Lord sent against him Rezin king of Assyria, and Pekah king of Israel. See, for the...
THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD AND RESPONSIBILITY OF MAN PUNISHMENT PROMISED, THE COVENANT NATIONSJUDAH TEXT: Amos 2:4-5 4 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, yea, for four, I will not t...
THE SINS OF ISRAEL'S NEIGHBOURS AND THE PUNISHMENTS WHICH SHOULD FOLLOW 1. We may paraphrase the main part of the sentence thus: 'The words of Amos, describing what he saw in prophetic vision.' HERDM...
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...
JUDAH. — Such high privilege does not involve immunity from punishment. Judah shall be chastised with the same penalty as Edom, Philistia, Ammon, and Moab....
וְ שִׁלַּ֥חְתִּי אֵ֖שׁ בִּֽ יהוּדָ֑ה וְ אָכְל
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...
JUDAH SHALL BE JUDGED ALSO Amos 1:11-15; Amos 2:1-5 _Edom_ was Esau; that is, the people were closely akin to Israel; perhaps for that very reason the hatred on either side became more and more invet...
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...
_Fire. Under Joathan, Rasin, &c., invaded the country. Achaz increased the misery, by applying to the Assyrians. (Calmet)_...
Judah comes now before the Lord's tribunal, and though for a while separated from Israel, yet not from Israel's God. We find the Lord himself speaking of both by the Prophet, under one and the same ch...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem. Ver. 5. _But I will send a fire upon Judah_] They shall also bear the punishment of their iniquities; yet, is it not s...
_For three transgressions of Judah_, &c. Having denounced judgments against the heathen nations, he now proceeds to denounce them against God's professing people, who were more guilty and inexcusable,...
but I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem. Here it was true, as the maxim has it, that a person is rightly judged by the company he keeps and may be obliged to sh...
AGAINST MOAB AND JUDAH...
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 reck...
I WILL SEND A FIRE: see AMOS 1:4. JUDAH; the kingdom of the two tribes; Benjamin is to be included with Judah, as elsewhere hath been already often observed. It shall devour the palaces: see AMOS 1:4....
Amos 2:5 send H7971 (H8765) fire H784 Judah H3063 devour H398 (H8804) palaces H759 Jerusalem H3389 I will -...
7). YHWH'S JUDGMENT ON JUDAH (AMOS 2:4). But while ‘YHWH's people' no doubt prided themselves on being superior morally to those round about, they were now to discover to their horror that they too wo...
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...
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
_Thus saith the Lord: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof._ NATIONAL SINS AND NATIONAL PUNISHMENT The British nation, like the kingdom of Juda...
_I will not turn away the punishment thereof._ GOD’S DEALING WITH NATIONS I. The opportunity for repentance which all possess. The punishment of the six heathen nations, as of Judah and Israel, opens...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 2:4 Unlike the other nations, JUDAH is not judged for inhumanity to others. It is judged according to THE LAW OF THE LORD ...
CRITICAL NOTES.] BONES] An act of cruelty revenged; others, an insult to the remains of a dead king, probably the king joined in alliance with Jehoshaphat and Jehoram (2 Kings 3:9). AMOS 2:2. KIR.] A...
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
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...
Hosea 8:14; Jeremiah 17:27; Jeremiah 21:10; Jeremiah 37:8; Jere