George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Amos 4:11
Burning. This comparison shews the condition of Israel. Hardly any escaped, Zacharias iii. 2., and 1 Corinthians iii. 15. (Calmet)
Burning. This comparison shews the condition of Israel. Hardly any escaped, Zacharias iii. 2., and 1 Corinthians iii. 15. (Calmet)
Verse Amos 4:11. _I HAVE OVERTHROWN SOME OF YOU_] In the destruction of your cities I have shown my judgments as signally as I did in the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah; and those of you that did...
I HAVE OVERTHROWN SOME OF YOU - The earthquake is probably reserved to the last, as being the rarest, and so the most special, visitation. Frequent as earthquakes have been on the borders of Palestine...
CHAPTER 4 The Second Discourse _ 1. Divine threatening and irony (Amos 4:1) _ 2. Yet have ye not returned unto Me (Amos 4:6) 3. Prepare to meet thy God (Amos 4:12)...
ISRAEL'S DENSENESS. What is the real cause of conduct that merits such punishment? At the root of all the evil is a sham religion, a religion which in its mere formality and gross corruption has degen...
AS GOD OVERTHREW, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 19:24; Genesis 19:25.Deuteronomy 29:23; Deuteronomy 29:23). App-92.
Here the people at large are addressed by the prophet, perhaps at some festal religious gathering....
The five unheeded chastisements which have passed over Israel. The description of each ends with the pathetic refrain, indicating its failure to produce the desired effect, "Yet have ye not returned u...
The earthquake. This, the most terrible visitation, is reserved for the last. The earthquake is not only the most unfamiliar and the most mysterious of all the judgements enumerated; it is also the mo...
_YOU HAVE NOT RETURNED TO GOD -- AMOS 4:6-11:_ Five times the Lord described efforts He had made to rescue Israel from sin. But each time He said, "Yet you did not return to me," or "still you rejecte...
DISCOURSE: 1189 INCORRIGIBLENESS REPROVED Amos 4:11. _Yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord. Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to...
YE WERE AS A FIRE-BRAND, &C.— A proverbial expression, used both by sacred and prophane writers to signify a narrow escape out of imminent danger. The comparison expresses perfectly well the state to...
REASON CALLS FOR REPENTANCECHASTENING IN THE PAST SHOULD MAKE THEM THINK TEXT: Amos 4:6-11 6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places; y...
And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. I ALSO HAVE GIVEN YOU. Yahweh details His seve...
THE SECOND ADDRESS 1-3. The heartless luxury of the rich women. 4, 5. The elaborate sacrifices and pilgrimages. 6-12. The failure of God's chastisements to produce amendment. 1. These pampered wome...
THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 4 THE WOMEN WHO LOVE LUXURY V1 Listen to this, you cows of Bashan, who live on the mountains of Samaria. You hurt poor...
OVERTHROWN. — Another awful calamity, an earthquake, is referred to, and perhaps a volcanic eruption. Dr. Pusey enumerates a long series of earthquakes, which distressed Palestine, though not the cent...
הָפַ֣כְתִּי בָכֶ֗ם כְּ מַהְפֵּכַ֤ת אֱלֹהִים֙ אֶת...
1. FOR WORSHIP, CHASTISEMENT Amos 4:4 In chapter 2 Amos contrasted the popular conception of religion as worship with God's-conception of it as history. He placed a picture of the sanctuary, hot with...
CALAMITIES ARE GOD'S WARNINGS Amos 4:1-11 Speaking after the imagery of his vocation, Amos the herdsman compares the rich and powerful of Samaria, who were living in luxury and wantonness, to the kin...
The second discourse consists of Jehovah's summons to the people. It commences with a severe and terrible indictment of the women. He addressed them as "Ye kine of Bashan," which reveals the degradati...
I have overthrown [some] of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a (m) firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. (m) You were almost...
Here we have an account of the Lord's sore judgments upon Israel; by famine, by withholding the fruits of the earth, and by marking his judgments in a distinguishing manner, causing it to rain upon on...
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...
Amos proceeds further, and says, that God had used a severity towards his chosen people similar to that which formerly he showed towards Sodom and Gomorrah. That, we know, was a memorable evidence of...
Chapter 4 presents the oppression of the poor, and the worship which the children of Israel rendered at will in the places they had chosen. God also would act as He saw fit. He had indeed already done...
I HAVE OVERTHROWN [SOME] OF YOU, AS GOD OVERTHREW SODOM AND GOMORRAH,.... Either their houses were burnt, or their bodies consumed by fire from heaven, with lightning; not whole cities, but the habita...
I have overthrown [some] of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. Ver. 11. _I have overthr...
_I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt_ I have sent such pestilence among you as I formerly sent upon Egypt: Or, such as has frequently taken place in Egypt. “The unwholesome...
I have overthrown some of you, some of Israel's cities, AS GOD OVERTHREW SODOM AND GOMORRAH, AND YE, those who escaped such utter extinction, WERE AS A FIREBRAND PLUCKED OUT OF THE BURNING, the escape...
VARIOUS PUNISHMENTS LEADING UP TO THE LAST JUDGMENT...
6-13 See the folly of carnal hearts; they wander from one creature to another, seeking for something to satisfy, and labour for that which satisfies not; yet, after all, they will not incline their e...
OVERTHROWN; utterly consumed and destroyed your houses and goods. SOME OF YOU; though it was a total consumption to those it fell on, yet it was but on some, who might be wantings to others, and by wh...
Amos 4:11 overthrew H2015 (H8804) God H430 overthrew H4114 Sodom H5467 Gomorrah H6017 firebrand H181 plucked H5337 ...
YHWH FIVE TIMES EXPRESSES HIS CONCERN THAT IN SPITE OF HIS JUDGMENTS ISRAEL HAVE NOT RETURNED TO HIM (AMOS 4:6). Having made clear His indictment of the women and men of Israel, both because of social...
TWO INDICTMENTS OF THE PEOPLE WHICH WILL RESULT IN A SERIES OF CHASTISEMENTS (AMOS 4:1). A new oracle now begins with the words ‘hear this word ---' (compare Amos 3:1; Amos 5:1) and consists of indict...
CONTENTS: Threatening against the oppressors in Israel. Israel reminded of God's chastening in the past. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: God designs all His providential rebukes to influence men to tur...
Amos 4:1. _Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan._ The strong bulls of Bashan are celebrated in scripture. Psalms 22:13. _Vaccæ pingues,_ fat cows, haughty women, abandoned to luxurious ease, and who, equ...
_Ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning._ THE FIREBRAND PLUCKED OUT OF THE BURNING A large portion of the sacred writings sets forth God’s exhibitions of kindness towards men as their Prot...
_And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities._ AFFLICTIONS PROVIDENTIAL There is a material difference between what may be called permissive and active providences; and between su...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 4:1 This second oracle (see note on 2:6–6:14) is composed of three parts. In Amos 4:1, Amos expands somewhat on the points made in...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 4:6. Teeth] Famine, as threatened in the law (Deuteronomy 28:48; Deuteronomy 28:57; cf. 2 Kings 8:1)....
EXPOSITION AMOS 4:1 _§ 2. Second address. The prophet reproves the voluptuous women of Samaria, and fortells their captivity _(Amos 4:1);_ with bitter irony he describes the people's devotion to idol...
Then the Lord says, Hear this word, ye cows of Bashan (Amos 4:1), They worshiped the calf so God calls them a bunch of cows. But because they worshiped the calf, He speaks disdainfully concerning th...
1 Corinthians 3:15; 2 Peter 2:6; Amos 4:6; Ezekiel 22:17; Ezekiel 2
Overthrew — By grievous and desolating judgments. As a fire — brand — Such of you as escaped were yet as fire — brands in the midst of the fire, 'till infinite mercy saved a remnant....