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Verse Amos 3:2. _YOU ONLY HAVE I KNOWN_] I have taken no other people
to be my own people. I have _approved_ of you, loved you, fed,
sustained, and defended you; but because you have forsaken me, have...
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YOU ONLY HAVE I KNOWN OF ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH; THEREFORE I
WILL PUNISH YOU FOR ALL YOUR INIQUITIES - Such is the one law of God.
The nearer anyone is brought unto God, the worse is his fall,...
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II. THE PROPHETIC MESSAGES UNCOVERING
THE CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE
CHAPTER 3
The First Discourse
_ 1. There is cause for judgment (Amos 3:1) _
2. The coming judgment visitation (Amos 3:9)
Amos 3:1...
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ISRAEL'S RESPONSIBILITY AND THE PROPHET'S OBLIGATION. Amos, after
addressing the children of Israel, includes Judah by adding the whole
family, unless this is a gloss, as it may be, since the inclusio...
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_You only_&c. The pron. is emphatic by its position, in the Heb., as
in the English.
_known_ i.e. known favourably, noticed, regarded: so Genesis 18:19, "I
have _known_him to the end that he may comma...
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_JUDGMENT AGAINST THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL -- AMOS 3:1-3:_ God had
brought the family of Israel out of bondage in Egypt. Now God's
judgment would be poured out against His own people because of their
tr...
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YOU ONLY HAVE I KNOWN— "You have I chosen from amongst all people,
for mine inheritance and my kingdom. I have distinguished you with
particular favours and privileges, and therefore expected from you...
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PENITENCE PROMOTEDREASON CALLS FOR REPENTANCE THE LORD DOES NOT ROAR
WITHOUT CAUSE
TEXT: Amos 3:1-8
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Hear this word that Jehovah hath spoken against you, O children of
Israel against the whole fam...
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THE FIRST ADDRESS
1-8. A call to attention.
9, 10. The oppressions practised by the powerful.
11-15. The disasters which should overtake them, their sanctuary and
their palaces.
1. 'Race' would be...
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THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD
AMOS
_MARK KIRKPATRICK_
CHAPTER 3
GOD WARNS ISRAEL’S PEOPLE
V1 People in Israel, listen to this message. The *Lord has spoken
against you.
This message...
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KNOWN. — The knowledge of God is love. There was special knowledge
and intimacy between God and Israel. Upon such knowledge followed
advantages and privileges innumerable.
THEREFORE I WILL... — This...
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רַ֚ק אֶתְכֶ֣ם יָדַ֔עְתִּי מִ כֹּ֖ל
מִשְׁפְּחֹ֣ות...
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CIVILIZATION AND JUDGMENT
Amos 3:1 - Amos 4:3
WE now enter the Second Section of the Book of Amos: Chapter s 3-6. It
is a collection of various oracles of denunciation, grouped partly by
the recurren...
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THE LORD'S WORD MUST COME TRUE
Amos 3:1-15
The closer our relationship with God, the more searching His scrutiny
and chastening. The sins of God's children which may seem of slight
consequence are ri...
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Having thus uttered the declamations of Jehovah's judgment on all the
nations, the prophet delivered his special message to Israel in a
series of three discourses. In each the introductory word is, "H...
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You (a) only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore
I will punish you for all your iniquities.
(a) I have only chosen you to be mine among all other people, and yet
you have forsake...
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_Known, with love, (Haydock) and favoured with the law, &c. Above all,
styling you my people, Exodus xix. 6., and Ezechiel xx. 5. (Calmet)
--- Visit. That is, punish. (Challoner) --- I will treat you...
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I beg the Reader to notice what I before remarked in the preceding
Chapter, though Judah and Israel were separately there arraigned, yet
here the whole family arc considered as one, consequently Judah...
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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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_CONTEMPT OF SPIRITUAL PRIVILEGES PUNISHED_
‘You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I
will punish you for all your iniquities.’
Amos 3:2
The language in which the Old Tes...
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The Prophet afterwards declares what he had in charge, _Only you have
I known of all the families of the earth: I will therefore visit you
for your iniquities. _Many think that he still concedes to th...
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After having specified each one of the nations that were found on the
territory promised to Abraham, God addresses Judah and Israel
together-the whole family whom He had brought up from Egypt. These
o...
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YOU ONLY HAVE I KNOWN OF ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH,.... All the
families or nations of the earth, and all the inhabitants of it, are
known by the Lord, as he is the omniscient God; but none had be...
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You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I
will punish you for all your iniquities.
Ver. 2. _You only have I known_] That is, owned and honoured, called
and culled, chosen an...
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_Hear this word against the whole family_, &c. All that family of
which Jacob, or Israel, was the head. The word _family_ is equivalent
to _people_ here and in the following verse. _You only have I kn...
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You only have I known of all the families of the earth, acknowledging
them and choosing them on the basis of His peculiar favor toward them;
THEREFORE I WILL PUNISH YOU FOR ALL YOUR INIQUITIES; for th...
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THE LORD READY TO PUNISH...
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PUNISH:
_ Heb._ visit upon...
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1-8 The distinguishing favours of God to us, if they do not restrain
from sin, shall not exempt from punishment. They could not expect
communion with God, unless they first sought peace with him. Whe...
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YOU ONLY HAVE I KNOWN; chosen, made near to myself adopted to be my
peculiar ones, to be sons and daughters to me; to you only have I
revealed my whole will, and given you my law for your rule and
dir...
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Amos 3:2 known H3045 (H8804) families H4940 earth H127 punish H6485
(H8799) iniquities H5771
only -...
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THE INEVITABILITY OF JUDGMENT, BOTH BECAUSE OF WHAT YHWH IS, AND
BECAUSE HE WILL ACT (AMOS 3:1).
Following up on the idea in Amos 2:9 Amos commences this section of
his prophecy (introduced by ‘hear t...
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THE COVENANT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN YHWH AND HIS PEOPLE (AMOS 3:1).
The covenant relationship between YHWH and His people is revealed in
this carefully constructed passage in which there is constant
re...
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THEREFORE
It is noteworthy that Jehovah's controversy with the Gentile cities
which hated Israel is brief: "I will send a fire." But Israel had been
brought into the place of privilege and so of resp...
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CONTENTS: Jehovah's controversy with Israel.
CHARACTERS: God, Amos.
CONCLUSION: Judgment begins at the house of God. The nearer men are to
God in profession, and the kinder notice God has taken of t...
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Amos 3:1. _Against the whole family_ of the twelve tribes, _which I
brought up from Egypt._ It was a laborious work to make them hear. The
prophets did not confine their labours to local districts.
Am...
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_You only have I known of all the families of the earth._
SIN IN THE HIGHLY-FAVOURED
This is shameful ingratitude. The honour and blessing conferred on the
Israelites gave the stain of ingratitude to...
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AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 3:1 HEAR THIS WORD introduces the first three
messages against Israel (Amos 3:1; Amos 4:1
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CRITICAL NOTES.] HEAR] Cf. beginning of chaps. 5 & 6, indicating this
chap. to be one whole address. WHOLE] Though the ten tribes
threatened, yet all Israel are concerned and warned.
AMOS 3:2. KNOWN]...
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EXPOSITION
VERSE 1-CH. 6:14
Part II. THREE ADDRESSES PARTICULARIZING THE SINS OF ISRAEL AND
ANNOUNCING IMMINENT JUDGMENT.
AMOS 3:1
§ 1.
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Hear this word [Amos said] that the LORD hath spoken against you, O
children of Israel, and against the whole family (Amos 3:1)
So that would include Judah also.
which I brought up from the land of...
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1 Peter 4:17; Acts 17:26; Daniel 9:12; Deuteronomy 10:15; Deu
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Know — Chosen, adopted to be my peculiar ones. Therefore — Because
you have all these obligations and abused all these mercies....