George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Amos 2:7
Humble, provoking him to anger. --- Name. Such incests caused infidels to blaspheme, Leviticus xviii. 8. (Calmet) --- They must be punished with severity. (Worthington)
Humble, provoking him to anger. --- Name. Such incests caused infidels to blaspheme, Leviticus xviii. 8. (Calmet) --- They must be punished with severity. (Worthington)
Verse Amos 2:7. Amos 2:6....
THAT PANT AFTER THE DUST OF THE EARTH - Literally, “the panters!” with indignation. Not content with having rent from him the little hereditary property which belonged to each Israelite, these credito...
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
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...
PANT. crush. Hebrew. _shaaph_, _A Homonymyn,_ meaning (1) to gasp or long for (Job 7:2; Job 36:20; Psalms 119:131.Ecclesiastes 1:5.
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...
_That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor_ The expression is a singular one; but, if the text be sound, the meaning is probably (Hitzig, Pusey, Duhm), "who are so avaricious that...
_THE TRANSGRESSIONS OF ISRAEL -- AMOS 2:6-10:_ Next God said, "For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment." The 10-tribe Northern Kingdom was guilty of many sin...
THAT PANT, &C.— _That stamp upon, or tread upon the heads of the poor, in the dust of the earth,_ &c. Houbigant....
PUNISHMENT PROMISED, THE COVENANT NATIONSISRAEL TEXT: Amos 2:6-8 6 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they h...
That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name: THAT PANT AFTER T...
2:7 after (a-2) Or, 'they who pant after.'...
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...
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...
DUST OF THE EARTH ON THE HEAD OF THE POOR. — Can only mean, as Ewald and Keil interpret: they long to see the poor reduced to such distress that dust is thrown on their heads in token of grief. The me...
הַ שֹּׁאֲפִ֤ים עַל ־עֲפַר ־אֶ֨רֶץ֙ בְּ רֹ֣אשׁ
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...
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...
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...
That pant after the (e) dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the [same] maid, to profane my holy name: (e) When they...
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...
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...
Here Amos charges them first with insatiable avarice; they panted for the heads of the poor on the dust of the earth. This place is in my judgment not well understood. שאף, _shaph, _means to pant and...
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,...
THAT PANT AFTER THE DUST OF THE EARTH ON THE HEAD OF THE POOR,.... Either were greedy after money, the dust of the earth, and even that small portion of it the poor were possessed of; they could not b...
That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the [same] maid, to profane my holy name: Ver. 7. _That pan...
_For three transgressions of Israel_ Amos, having first prophesied against the Syrians, Philistines, &c., who dwelt in the neighbourhood of the twelve tribes, and who had occasionally become their ene...
that pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, by oppressing the poor so severely that the latter, in their misery, show their grief by placing dust on their heads. Job 2:12, AND TURN...
AGAINST ISRAEL...
MAID: Or, young woman...
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...
THAT PANT AFTER THE DUST OF THE EARTH ON THE HEAD OF THE POOR; or swallow up, as the word is most frequently turned by our interpreters; and so perhaps more plainly is their cruelty and violence set f...
Amos 2:7 pant H7602 (H8802) dust H6083 earth H776 head H7218 poor H1800 pervert H5186 (H8686) way...
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...
EXAMPLES OF SOME OF ISRAEL'S TRANSGRESSIONS (AMOS 2:6). He commenced his condemnation by outlining different ways in which they had broken YHWH's Law (in the same way as Judah had done). They had fla...
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
_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 2:6 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...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 2:7 Sexual immorality is an insult to God the Creator (MY HOLY NAME IS PROFANED). GARMENTS TAKEN IN PLEDGE refers to a poor person’s cloak that was given to a money-lender as securit...
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...
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...
1 Corinthians 5:1; 1 Kings 21:4; 2 Samuel 12:14; Amos 4:1; Amos 5:12;...
The people — That make a prey even of the poor afflicted ones, who walk with dust on their heads. Turn aside — Maliciously interpret the actions, words, and designs of the humble and meek. Will go in...