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Verse Amos 1:5. _THE BAR OF DAMASCUS_] The _gates_, whose long
traverse bars, running from wall to wall, were their strength. I will
throw it open; and the _gates_ were forced, and the city taken, as...
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I WILL ALSO BREAK THE BAR OF DAMASCUS - In the East, every city was
fortified; the gates of the stronger cities were cased in iron, that
they might not be set on fire by the enemy; they were fastened...
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ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS
I. JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED AGAINST THE NATIONS, JUDAH, AND ISRAEL
CHAPTER 1
_ 1. The introduction (Amos 1:1) _
2. Damascus (Amos 1:3)
3. Philistia (Amos 1:6)
4. Tyre ...
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DAMASCUS. It is Yahweh who speaks by the mouth of the prophets. The
mention of Damascus, the capital of the Aramaean or Syrian kingdom,
would at once arrest attention, for until recently Israel had be...
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THE BAR. Note the Figure of speech _Metalepsis_ (App-6), by which
"bar" is put by Figure of speech _Metalepsis_, App-6, for the gates,
and then the gates put for defence of the city. Compare Deuterono...
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AND _I will break the bar of Damascus_ Damascus will be powerless to
resist the besieger. The allusion is to the -bars" of bronze or iron
by which the gates of every fortified city were secured (see...
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The punishment....
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Amos 1:3 TO AMOS 2:5. The sins of Israel's neighbours
3 5. DAMASCUS. The first denunciation lights upon the Syrian kingdom
of Damascus, the best-organized and most formidable of Israel's
neighbours, w...
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_TRANSGRESSIONS OF DEMACUS -- AMOS 1:1-5:_ Amos was not a professional
prophet. He said, "I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son;
but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit.” (Amo...
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I WILL BREAK ALSO THE BAR OF DAMASCUS— See 2 Kings 16:9. The _bar_
means the _gates_ or _fortifications._ Houbigant, instead of, _The
house of Eden,_ reads _The house of pleasure;_ and for _Kir,_ he
t...
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PUNISHMENT PROMISED, THE HEATHEN NATIONSDAMASCUS
TEXT: Amos 1:1-5
1.
The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw
concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and...
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I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant
from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the
house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto...
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1:5 bar (b-6) See Deuteronomy 3:5 . valley (c-16) Or 'plain.' see
Note, Joshua 11:8 . Aven, (d-18) Or 'valley of idols.' Beth-Eden;
(e-26) Meaning, 'House of delight.'...
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THE SINS OF ISRAEL'S NEIGHBOURS AND THE PUNISHMENTS WHICH SHOULD
FOLLOW
1. We may paraphrase the main part of the sentence thus: 'The words of
Amos, describing what he saw in prophetic vision.'
HERDM...
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THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD
AMOS
_MARK KIRKPATRICK_
ABOUT THIS BOOK
WHEN AMOS LIVED
Amos came from Tekoa, about 12 miles south of Jerusalem. He was a
*shepherd and he looked after...
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I WILL BREAK... — The “bar_”_ means the bolt of iron or brass
with which the city was defended. But it is possible that it may be
used of persons, _i.e.,_ princes or leaders (comp. Hosea 4:18; Hosea
1...
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וְ שָֽׁבַרְתִּי֙ בְּרִ֣יחַ
דַּמֶּ֔שֶׂק וְ הִכְרַתִּ֤י...
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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...
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OUTSIDE NATIONS SHALL SUFFER JUDGMENT
Amos 1:1-10
Amos opens his prophecies with predictions against neighboring
peoples, that Israel may be led to appreciate her guilt and to bear
the approach of Go...
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The second verse of this first chapter gives the key to the book.
Jehovah declared Himself in judgment. Beginning at the point farthest
from Israel, the prophet delivered his messages to the nations a...
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I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from
the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of
Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto...
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_Plain. The city "Bikhath-Aven," or the latter word, probably denotes
Baal, as the Syrians style Baal-Bek, the city which the Greeks call
Heliopolis. The valley between the two mountains extending nor...
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The Lord begins with Damascus, one of the most ancient enemies of
Israel when in Canaan. The three or four transgressions means many and
for every one of which the Lord will account with them, and a d...
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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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He then adds,_I will break in pieces the bar of Damascus _The Prophet
confirms what he had already said; for Damascus, being strongly
fortified, might have seemed unassailable. By bar, the Prophet,
me...
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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,...
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I WILL BREAK ALSO THE BAR OF DAMASCUS,.... Or bars, the singular for
the plural, by which the gates of the city were barred; and, being
broken, the gates would be easily opened, and way made for the e...
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I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from
the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of
Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto...
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_But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael_ God's judgments are
often compared to fire. But perhaps the expression may here signify,
that the fine palaces of Hazael, and his son and successor Be...
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THE PLAIN OF AVEN:
Or, Bikathaven
HOUSE OF EDEN:
Or, Betheden...
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I, the mighty God, as AMOS 1:4, WILL BREAK, weaken and shake into
pieces, THE BAR; literally, the bar with which the city gates were
shut, and both fastened and strengthened, Judges 16:3 Nehemiah 7:3...
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Amos 1:5 break H7665 (H8804) bar H1280 Damascus H1834 off H3772
(H8689) inhabitant H3427 (H8802) Valley...
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SEVEN JUDGMENTS AGAINST THE NEIGHBOURING NATIONS, INCLUDING JUDAH
(AMOS 1:3 TO AMOS 2:5).
The announcing of YHWH's judgments on seven nations (including Judah)
can be looked at in two ways. First it w...
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1). YHWH'S JUDGMENT ON DAMASCUS (AMOS 1:3).
YHWH's judgment on Damascus, a city (representing Aram) which had
proved through the years to be Israel's most dangerous enemy, would be
because of their co...
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CONTENTS: Judgments pronounced upon surrounding peoples Syria, Tyre,
Edom, Ammon.
CHARACTERS: God, Amos, Uzziah, Jeroboam, Hazael, Benhadad.
CONCLUSION: The God of Israel is the God of all the earth...
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Amos 1:1. _The words of Amos,_ written with his own hand. He does not
name his parents, because they were plain country people. He was
himself _among the herdmen of Tekoa,_ a small city twelve miles s...
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AMOS 1:2 Oracles of Judgment. Amos delivers a series of messages from
God showing that neither Israel’s neighbors (Amos 1:2) nor Israel
herself (Amos 2:6) can es
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AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 1:5 The wooden city gates were fastened shut with
a heavy wooden GATE-BAR across them. If that bar were broken, an
invading army could enter the city. KIR is the ancestral home of th...
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
Amos 1:3. Three] The numbers serve to denote the multiplicity of sins,
“ungodliness in its worst form” [_Luther_]. TURN] Reverse, to make
a thing go back, to withdraw it (Numbers 23:...
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EXPOSITION
VERSE 1-CH. 2:16
PART I. APPROACHING JUDGMENT.
VERSE 1-CH. 2:3
_§ 1. The nations bordering on the Holy Land are solemnly summoned to
judgment._
AMOS 1:1, AMOS 1:2
Heading o
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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...
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2 Kings 16:9; Amos 9:7; Isaiah 43:14; Jeremiah 50:36; Jeremiah 51:30;
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The bar — Literally the bar with which the city gates were shut, and
fastened. Of Eden — Some royal seat, of the kings of Syria. Kir —
Kir of Media, Isaiah 22:6, thither did Tiglath — Pilneser carry t...