The. Septuagint, "Repent, O Lord, on this head, and this shall," &c. --- Not be: the grass shall not be totally devoured. (Haydock) --- The king of the Assyrians invaded Juda in vain, 4 Kings xix. (Worthington)
Verse Amos 7:3. _THE LORD REPENTED_] Changed his purpose of destroying them by the locusts. See Amos 7:6....
THE LORD REPENTED FOR THIS - God is said to “repent, to have strong compassion upon” or “over” evil, which He has either inflicted Deuteronomy 32:36; 1 Chronicles 21:15, or has said that He would infl...
III. THE FIVE VISIONS OF THE PROPHET CHAPTER 7 Three Visions and the Opposition Against Amos _ 1. The vision of locusts (Amos 7:1) _ 2. The vision concerning the fire (Amos 7:4) 3. The vision of...
THE VISION OF THE LOCUSTS. On one occasion the prophet saw (Amos 7:1) and behold, Yahweh formed locusts at the beginning of the coming up of the late spring grass (_lekesh_, RV latter growth), the gra...
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. REPENTED. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6 Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:36). App-92. Compare Jonah 3:10....
The first vision. The devouring locusts....
CONCERNING _this_ viz. concerning the further undefined calamity, which He had purposed, and of which Amos had rightly interpreted the locusts as being the harbinger. "God is said to _repent_" (lit.,...
_THE VISION OF LOCUST -- AMOS 7:1-3:_ The Lord showed Amos that he was going to send locusts to attack the crops of Israel. This would happen after the king has already been given his share of the gra...
DISCOURSE: 1193 GOD’S CONDESCENSION TO PRAYER Amos 7:2. _Then I said, O Lord God, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small. The Lord repented for this: It shall not be, sai...
THE LORD REPENTED FOR THIS— _The Lord changed his purpose concerning this matter._ Houbigant. See Amos 7:6....
PROPHECIES PRESENTED, Chapter S 7-9 CAUSES OF JUDGMENT PROPHESIEDNOT ALIGNED WITH GOD'S STANDARD TEXT: Amos 7:1-9 1 Thus the Lord, Jehovah showed me: and, behold, he formed locusts in the beginning...
The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD. THE LORD REPENTED FOR THIS - i:e., OF this. The Lord, after the awful visitation by locusts, and when Israel's power had been reduced to...
THREE VISIONS AND AN INTERRUPTION 1-9. The visions. 10-17. The interruption. There are two senses in which the word 'Vision' may be used of one of the forms of Hebrew prophecy. In the first sense a...
THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 7 V1 This is what the *Lord the Ruler showed me. He was preparing a large number of *locusts....
THE LORD REPENTED. — The judgment is withheld. On the anthropomorphism of Jehovah repenting, comp. Genesis 6:5 and other passages....
נִחַ֥ם יְהוָ֖ה עַל ־זֹ֑את לֹ֥א תִהְיֶ֖ה אָמַ֥
5. THE PROPHET AND HIS MINISTRY Amos 7:1 - Amos 8:1 We have seen the preparation of the Man for the Word; we have sought to trace to its source the Word which came to the Man. It now remains for us...
THE HERDSMAN'S MESSAGE Amos 7:1-17 The _king's mowings_ were the earliest yield of the grasslands, which were exacted by him. Our King also has His mowings, when He takes to Himself our dearest and...
In this division the prophet gave a fivefold vision of judgment, introduced in the first four cases by the words, "The Lord God showed me." The last vision was of Jehovah Himself. The vision of the lo...
The LORD (c) repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD. (c) That is, stopped this plague at my prayer....
The Prophet is here preaching by figure, in vision perhaps it might be; and by a multitude of grasshoppers, he points out the certain ruin of the country by famine. If we compare this scripture with t...
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...
God had long waited patiently. More than once He had been on the point of giving Israel up to judgment. The intercession of the prophet, that is to say, of the Spirit of Christ which wrought in the pr...
THE LORD REPENTED FOR THIS,.... He heard the prayer of the prophet, and at his intercession averted, the threatened judgment; thus the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much, James 5:...
The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD. Ver. 3. The Lord repented for this: It shall not be, saith the Lord] Here was _mutatio rei, non Dei; facti, non consilii:_ a change, not o...
_When they had made an end of eating the grass_ With us grasshoppers are not hurtful, but those in our text were _locusts_, as the word גבי, here used, is rendered, Isaiah 33:4: in which sense the wor...
The Lord repented for this. It shall not be, saith the Lord, He was willing to spare the people and the land upon the intercession of the' prophet....
THE VISIONS OF THE GRASSHOPPERS, OF THE FIRE, AND OF THE PLUMB-LINE....
1-9 God bears long, but he will not bear always with a provoking people. The remembrance of the mercies we formerly received, like the produce of the earth of the former growth, should make us submis...
THE LORD REPENTED; this, spoke after the manner of man, is to be understood as becomes the immutability and omniscience of God; what a man when he repenteth doth, desisting front the thing, so God, de...
Amos 7:3 LORD H3068 relented H5162 (H8738) said H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 Amos 7:6;...
THE FOUR VISIONS (AMOS 7:1 TO AMOS 8:14). In a similar way to the seven judgments in Amos 1:2 to Amos 2:5, followed by the expanded judgment on Israel, which all initially follo
THE FIRST VISION - THE LOCUST SWARM (AMOS 7:1). In this vision ‘the Lord YHWH' showed Amos the forming of a huge swarm of locusts which devoured the vegetation of the whole land. Amos, a farmer himsel...
REPENTED (_ See Scofield) - (Zechariah 8:14). _...
Amos 7:1. Thus hath the Lord God showed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowing...
CONTENTS: Threatening judgments. The prophet's intercession no longer to prevail. Amos charged before the king and his answer. CHARACTERS: God, Amos, Amaziah, Jeroboam. CONCLUSION: God's patience, wh...
Amos 7:1. _He formed grasshoppers,_ which are the same as the locusts. _After the king's mowings._ It is supposed that the first grass, or the proud corn cut with the scythe, was a tribute to the king...
_O Lord, forgive, I beseech Thee. .. The Lord repented for this: It shall not be, saith the Lord._ INTERCESSION FOR PARDON PREVAILING I. Concerning intercession. 1. This intercession was made by Am...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 7:1 Visions of Judgment. In the final section of the book, Amos turns from speech to sight. He tells of visions he has received from God that confirm the nation’s situation. The firs...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 7:3 THE LORD RELENTED. Like Amos, God does not desire to destroy his people. He is very patient (see Exodus 34:6). He has promised to rele
CRITICAL NOTES.] SHOWED] three visions in this ch. LOCUSTS (Amos 7:1) the first; “all inward tuitions produced by the Spirit of God, which set forth the primitive judgments of God” [_Keil_]. BEGIN.] T...
EXPOSITION VERSE 1-CH. 9:10 Part III. FIVE VISIONS, WITH EXPLANATIONS, CONTINUING AND CONFIRMING THE PREVIOUS PROPHECY. The afflictions are climactic, increasing in intensity. The first two symbolize...
Now the Lord showed unto Amos certain judgments whereby He could bring His judgment against Israel. These were shown to Amos, no doubt, in the form of a vision. And thus hath the Lord GOD showed unto...
1 Chronicles 21:15; Amos 7:6; Deuteronomy 32:36; Hosea 11:8; James 5:1
Repented — This is spoken after the manner of men....