Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Amos 3:13
Hear ye and testify in the house of Jacob, the heathen bearing witness against the iniquities of Israel, saith the Lord God, the God of hosts,
Hear ye and testify in the house of Jacob, the heathen bearing witness against the iniquities of Israel, saith the Lord God, the God of hosts,
Verse Amos 3:13. _HEAR YE_] This is an address to the prophet....
HEAR YE AND TESTIFY YE IN - (Rather unto or against ) the house of Israel; first “hear” yourselves, then “testify,” that is, solemnly “protest,” in the Name of God; and “bear witness unto” and “agains...
II. THE PROPHETIC MESSAGES UNCOVERING THE CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE CHAPTER 3 The First Discourse _ 1. There is cause for judgment (Amos 3:1) _ 2. The coming judgment visitation (Amos 3:9) Amos 3:1...
GUILT AND DOOM OF SAMARIA. The prophet proceeds to apply the lesson. The peoples are summoned to proclaim the fate that has befallen (Amos 3:9 *) the castles of Ashdod and those in the land of Egypt,...
THE HOUSE OF JACOB: i.e. the whole of the natural seed. See note on Amos 3:1. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim_. App-4. SAITH THE LORD GOD, THE GOD OF HOSTS. [is] the oracle of Adonai, the Elohim of Zebaioth....
_Hear ye, and testify_ AGAINST, &c. The persons addressed might be the heathen nobles of Philistia and Egypt (Amos 3:9 _b_). But in view of the fact that they are not to _see_, but to _hear_, and that...
The sentence. _An adversary_ or _Distress_, a rendering which most moderns prefer. there shall be _even round about_ The Hebrew is harsh: a very slight change, supported by Pesh. (יְסֹבֵב for וּסְבִ...
_PUNISHMENT FOR ISRAEL'S TRANSGRESSIONS -- AMOS 3:12-15:_ Under the Law of Moses if a person was keeping animals and one of the animals was torn he could bring some parts of the animal and not be resp...
REASON CALLS FOR REPENTANCE ISRAEL'S SINS ASTONISH EVENTHE HEATHEN TEXT: Amos 3:9-15 9 Publish ye in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upo...
Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts, HEAR YE, AND TESTIFY IN THE HOUSE OF JACOB - i:e., unto the house of Jacob - i:e., against the house of Jacob. God...
3:13 in (b-5) Or 'against.'...
THE FIRST ADDRESS 1-8. A call to attention. 9, 10. The oppressions practised by the powerful. 11-15. The disasters which should overtake them, their sanctuary and their palaces. 1. 'Race' would be...
THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 3 GOD WARNS ISRAEL’S PEOPLE V1 People in Israel, listen to this message. The *Lord has spoken against you. This message...
HEAR YE. — Addressed to the foreign nations Egypt and Philistia referred to in Amos 3:9....
שִׁמְע֥וּ וְ הָעִ֖ידוּ בְּ בֵ֣ית יַֽעֲקֹ֑ב נְ
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 recurren...
THE LORD'S WORD MUST COME TRUE Amos 3:1-15 The closer our relationship with God, the more searching His scrutiny and chastening. The sins of God's children which may seem of slight consequence are ri...
Having thus uttered the declamations of Jehovah's judgment on all the nations, the prophet delivered his special message to Israel in a series of three discourses. In each the introductory word is, "H...
There is somewhat very striking in the Lord's appeal to the nations of the earth for the justification of his conduct concerning his people. It not only is intended to this purpose, for perhaps this i...
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...
After having specified each one of the nations that were found on the territory promised to Abraham, God addresses Judah and Israel together-the whole family whom He had brought up from Egypt. These o...
HEAR YE, AND TESTIFY IN THE HOUSE OF JACOB,.... The prophets and priests, whose business it was to speak to the people from the Lord, and declare his will to them, and to admonish them of their sin an...
Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts, Ver. 13. _Hear ye and testify, &c._] Ye my prophets and all true believers. The Septuagint add, O ye priests, whose l...
_Hear ye, and testify_, &c. These words are directed to the prophets whom God sends to declare his will. _In the day that I shall visit,_ &c. In the general destruction of the ten tribes, my judgments...
9-15 That power which is an instrument of unrighteousness, will justly be brought down and broken. What is got and kept wrongfully, will not be kept long. Some are at ease, but there will come a day...
HEAR YE; prophets. TESTIFY, publicly declare and witness, make what proof you can of this thing, in the house of Jacob; to the ten tribes, as first and most nearly concerned herein, and to the two tri...
Amos 3:13 Hear H8085 (H8798) testify H5749 (H8685) house H1004 Jacob H3290 Says H5002 (H8803) Lord...
AMOS PUTS ISRAEL ON TRIAL BEFORE YHWH IN THE PRESENCE OF WITNESSES (AMOS 3:9). Amos begins by calling his witnesses together in Amos 3:9, giving his grounds for doing so, and then declaring YHWH's own...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's controversy with Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Amos. CONCLUSION: Judgment begins at the house of God. The nearer men are to God in profession, and the kinder notice God has taken of t...
Amos 3:1. _Against the whole family_ of the twelve tribes, _which I brought up from Egypt._ It was a laborious work to make them hear. The prophets did not confine their labours to local districts. Am...
_Therefore thus saith the Lord God; An adversary there shall be even round about the land._ THE SPOILER SPOILED In the previous verse Amos has pronounced God’s verdict on the proud citizens of Samar...
_They know not to do right._ SAFETY IN RIGHTEOUSNESS 1. The real security of wealth is justice in its acquisition and liberality in its use. Where there is much wealth, unjustly gotten, or unmercifu...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 3:13 The term GOD OF HOSTS was popular among the later prophets. “Hosts” here would ordinarily signify troops of soldiers, so the term expresses God’s unlimited power....
CRITICAL NOTES.] AMOS 3:13. HEAR] Addressed to heathen who have now to witness the punishment upon Israel. AMOS 3:14. ALTARS] Vengeance upon the centre from which spread the evils (1 Kings 12:32). Ho
EXPOSITION VERSE 1-CH. 6:14 Part II. THREE ADDRESSES PARTICULARIZING THE SINS OF ISRAEL AND ANNOUNCING IMMINENT JUDGMENT. AMOS 3:1 § 1.
Hear this word [Amos said] that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, and against the whole family (Amos 3:1) So that would include Judah also. which I brought up from the land of...
1 Thessalonians 4:6; 2 Chronicles 24:19; 2 Kings 17:13; 2 Kings 17:15;...
Hear ye — Prophets. The God of hosts — Who is Lord of all, and hath all power in his hand....