Breaches of the city. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "naked." Hebrew, "apart." (Haydock) --- The victors shall divide you among them. (Calmet) --- Armon, a foreign country; some understand it of Armenia, (Challoner) and this is the general opinion. (Menochius) --- Septuagint, "on Mount Remmon." Theodotion, "Mona." Israel was removed into Armenia, "the mountain of Menni," Jeremias li. 27.
Verse Amos 4:3. _AND YE SHALL GO OUT AT THE BREACHES_] Probably the metaphor is here kept up. They shall be caught by the _hooks_, or by the _nets_; and though they may make _breaches_ in the latter...
YE SHALL GO OUT THROUGH THE BREACHES - Samaria, the place of their ease and confidence, being broken through, they should go forth one by one, “each straight before her,” looking neither to the right...
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)...
THE WOMEN OF SAMARIA. Like Isaiah (Isaiah 31:6), Amos turns to denounce the extravagant and wicked frivolity of the women of the upper classes. He is not necessarily charging them with responsibility...
COW, i.e. woman. AT THAT WHICH IS BEFORE HER. each woman through the breach [in the wall of Samaria]. BEFORE HER i.e. without turning to the left or right. Compare Joshua 6:5; Joshua 6:20. YE SHALL...
The women of Samaria....
_shall go out_at _the breaches_ Amos pictures Samaria as captured, and the self-indulgent ladies forced to leave the city, as captives, through the breaches made in the walls by the foe. _every_cow at...
_FAT COWS OF BASHAN -- AMOS 4:1-3:_ Amos dealt with the oppression and injustice by those that called themselves God's people. He called the women fat cows of Bashan. Bashan was on the east of Jordan,...
AND YE SHALL GO OUT, &C.— _And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow after the other, and shall betake yourselves to the mountains of Mona, saith the Lord._ But Houbigant supposes the metaphor in...
REASON CALLS FOR REPENTANCE GOD'S HOLINESS DEMANDS PUNISHMENT FOR EVIL TEXT: Amos 4:1-5 1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, that crush t...
And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the LORD. AND YE SHALL GO OUT AT THE BREACHES - namely, of the city walls...
4:3 Harmon, (c-21) Some translate 'to the mountains,' others, 'to the [enemy's] fortress,' or 'to the palace,' as in ch. 1.4, &c.. the meaning is not ascertained....
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...
EVERY COW... — Render _each one_ (ref. to the women, Amos 4:1) _straight before her._ The enemy shall have broken down the city’s defences, and the women shall tamely go forth through the breaches int...
וּ פְרָצִ֥ים תֵּצֶ֖אנָה אִשָּׁ֣ה נֶגְדָּ֑הּ וְ...
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 recurre...
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...
Under the similitude of the fat bulls of Bashan the Prophet shews how Israel had oppressed the poor and lean among them. And under the figure of fishermen, he sets forth how in the end they that oppre...
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...
The Prophet expresses now, in different words, what would be the future calamity of that kingdom; but he still speaks of the rich and the chief men. For though he threatened also the common people and...
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...
AND YE SHALL GO OUT AT THE BREACHES,.... Not at the gates of the city, as they had used to do at pleasure; but at the breaches of the walls of it, made by the enemy, in order to make their escape, if...
And ye shall go out at the breaches, every [cow at that which is] before her; and ye shall cast [them] into the palace, saith the LORD. Ver. 3. _And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow_] _Qua...
_And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow_, &c. The prophet pursues the metaphor taken from the _kine of Bashan, Amos 4:1_, and tells the people, that as cattle strive to get out at every breach...
DENUNCIATION OF THE OUTSTANDING VICES...
And ye shall go out at the breaches, through the breaches which had been torn in the walls by the attacking enemies, EVERY COW AT THAT WHICH IS BEFORE HER, literally, "every one before her," anxious t...
YE SHALL CAST THEM IN THE PALACE: Or, ye shall cast away the things of the palace...
1-5 What is got by extortion is commonly used to provide for the flesh, and to fulfil the lusts thereof. What is got by oppression cannot be enjoyed with satisfaction. How miserable are those whose co...
AND YE, kine of Bashan, oppressors distressed by the just hand of God, and by the violent hand of your enemy, shall go out, endeavour to make your escape by flight, at the breaches, which the besiegin...
Amos 4:3 out H3318 (H8799) broken H6556 Each H802 cast H7993 (H8689) Harmon H2038 Says H5002 ...
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...
ORACLE OF WARNING TO THE WEALTHY WOMEN OF SAMARIA (AMOS 4:1). We can tend to forget that the women of Israel/Judah were regularly equally guilty with the men, but the prophets never forgot it, for the...
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...
_Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria._ GOD THE CHAMPION OF THE OPPRESSED I. The character of these men. “Ye kine of Bashan,” etc. The feminine, “kine,” marks their...
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...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 4:2 These verses describe what will happen to the wealthy and self-indulgent women of Samaria (v. Amos 4:1) when it falls to the Assyrians. They will be dragged out through the broke...
CRITICAL NOTES.] KINE] Fat and wanton, yet effeminate and luxuriant; reproved not for fierceness, but unfeeling insolence and oppression. SAY] (1) Wives here intended, voluptuous women after the analo...
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...
2 Kings 25:4; 2 Kings 7:15; 2 Kings 7:7; 2 Kings 7:8; Ezekiel 12:12;...
Ye — Kine of Bashan. Go out — Ye shall endeavour to make your escape. The breaches — Which the besieging enemy make in your walls, when Samaria is besieged. Before her — Taking the readiest way. The t...