Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Amos 2:13
Behold, I am pressed under you, rather, "Behold, I will press you down,". as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves, as a cart loaded with sheaves presses down the ground beneath.
Behold, I am pressed under you, rather, "Behold, I will press you down,". as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves, as a cart loaded with sheaves presses down the ground beneath.
Verse Amos 2:13. _BEHOLD, I AM PRESSED UNDER YOU_] The _marginal_ reading is better: "Behold, I will press your place, as a cart full of sheaves presseth." I will bring over you the _wheel of destruct...
BEHOLD, I AM PRESSED UNDER YOU - God bore His people, as the wain bears the sheaves. “Ye yourselves have seen,” He said to them by Moses, “how I bare you on eagle’s wings, and brought you unto Myself”...
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...
AS. CART. according as[a full] cart....
_Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed_&c. The intransitive sense of the _Hifil_conjugation העיק (properly, to _shew pressure_, or _constraint_), though just possible, cannot be said to...
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...
The retribution....
_MORE ABOUT ISRAEL'S TRANSGRESSIONS -- AMOS 2:11-16:_ God raised up some of the sons of the children of Israel to be prophets. Some of the young men dedicated themselves to be Nazirites. Prophets stoo...
DISCOURSE: 1185 GOD’S COMPLAINT AGAINST US Amos 2:13. _Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves_. THE effect of long-continued provocations is to weary out our pat...
BEHOLD, I AM PRESSED UNDER YOU— _Behold, I will make a pressure under you, as a cart loaded with sheaves makes a pressure;_—ver. 14. _And flight shall,_ &c. REFLECTIONS.—1st, God's controversy still...
PUNISHMENT PROMISED, THE COVENANT NATIONSISRAEL TEXT: Amos 2:13-16 13 Behold, I will press you in your place, as a cart presseth that is full of sheaves. 14 And flight shall perish from the swift...
Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves. I AM PRESSED UNDER YOU - so Calvin (cf. Isaiah 1:14). Margin translates actively, 'I will depress your place,' - i:e.,...
2:13 you, (d-6) Lit. 'in your place.' Others, 'I am pressed under you (i.e. 'your sins') as the cart is loaded with sheaves.'...
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...
I AM PRESSED. — Baur, Pusey, and _Speaker’s Commentary_ support this rendering of the Heb. _mç‘îq_, the corresponding form in the next clause also being taken in the intransitive (_i.e.,_ passive sens...
הִנֵּ֛ה אָנֹכִ֥י מֵעִ֖יק תַּחְתֵּיכֶ֑ם כַּ אֲשֶׁ֤ר...
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...
Behold, I am (k) pressed under you, as a cart is pressed [that is] full of sheaves. (k) You have wearied me with your sins; (Isaiah 1:14)....
_I will screek. Unable to bear any longer the enormous load of your sins, &c. The Spirit of God, as St. Jerome takes notice, accommodates itself to the education of the prophet, and inspires him with...
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...
The verb עיק, _oik, _in Hebrew is often transitive, and it is also a neuter. This place then may admit of two interpretations. The first is, that God was pressed under the Israelites, as a wagon groan...
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,...
BEHOLD, I ARE PRESSED UNDER YOU,.... With the weight of their sins, with which they had made him to serve, and had wearied him; his patience was quite wore out, he could bear them no longer: AS A CAR...
Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed [that is] full of sheaves. Ver. 13. _Behold I am pressed under you, &c._] A country comparison (such as this prophet is full of), plain, but pithy...
_Behold I am pressed under you_ Your sins have quite tired out my patience, and I am weary with bearing them: compare Isaiah 43:24; Malachi 2:17. In this sense the clause is understood by the LXX. and...
I AM PRESSED UNDER YOU, AS A CART IS PRESSED THAT IS FULL OF SHEAVES: Or, I will press your place as a cart full of sheaves presseth...
9-16 We need often to be reminded of the mercies we have received; which add much to the evil of the sins we have committed. They had helps for their souls, which taught them how to make good use of...
Hitherto the Lord by the prophet had declared the sins of the kingdom of the ten tribes, now he is about to pronounce judgment against them; he calls for their attention, and diligent weighing what he...
Amos 2:13 down H5781 (H8688) cart H5699 full H4392 sheaves H5995 down H5781 (H8686) Behold -...
THE CERTAINTY OF HIS JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL. IT WILL BE SUCH THAT IT WILL BE INESCAPABLE (AMOS 2:13). Israel's judgment is now described in terms of being run over by a heavy cart, fully loaded, and it wi...
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...
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
_Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves._ --We go to-day to the gate of the harvest-field, to see the waggon piled up aloft with many sheaves come creaking forth,...
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...
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...
Ezekiel 16:43; Ezekiel 6:9; Isaiah 1:14; Isaiah 43:24; Isaiah 7:13;...
Under you — Under the load of your sins....