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Amos 3:5

Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, a trap placed on the ground, where no gin is for him? That is: Could destruction come upon Israel if his own sin-fullness did not draw him into it?. Shall one take up a snare from the earth and have taken nothing at all? literally, "Does the trap rise from the ground if a snared bird does not cause it to do so?" that Isaiah Did Israel, knowing his own corruptness, hope to escape destruction, which was bound to take hold of him?

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Amos 3:5. _CAN A BIRD FALL IN A SNARE_] Can ye, as a sinful people, fall into calamities which I have not appointed? _SHALL_ ONE _TAKE UP A SNARE - AND HAVE TAKEN NOTHING_] Will the _snare_ _b...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    CAN A BIRD FALL IN A SNARE - Again, the bird taken in the snare is the image of those drawn down from heaven, where ‘our conversation is Philippians 3:20 and the soul may rise free toward its God , “d...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISRAEL'S RESPONSIBILITY AND THE PROPHET'S OBLIGATION. Amos, after addressing the children of Israel, includes Judah by adding the whole family, unless this is a gloss, as it may be, since the inclusio...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SNARE. net. Hebrew. _phah_. GIN. a snare, or trap. Gin is short for the Old French engin, which is from Latin. _ingeninm;_ hence, something _ingenious._...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Examples of sights, or sounds, from which the action of some proper or sufficient cause may, in each case, be inferred....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    WILL _a bird fall_ INTO _a_ NET _upon the earth_, WHEN THERE IS _no_ BAIT _for it?_ The _paḥ_must have been a kind of net; not improbably like the bird-traps figured in Wilkinson-Birch, _Ancient Egyp...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Such a severe rebuke might provoke contradiction among the prophet's hearers: he therefore proceeds to indicate the authority upon which it rests, arguing by means of a series of illustrations drawn f...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _THE LORD WILL PUNISH EVIL -- AMOS 3:4-6_ God wanted it understood that there was a cause for the punishment that He would bring upon Israel. The Lord would do this to Israel because of her transgress...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    CAN TWO WALK, &C.— The similies in these verses have the same meaning, and they all tend to shew that calamities happen according to the appointing, permissive, or suffering will of God; and that prop...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PENITENCE PROMOTEDREASON CALLS FOR REPENTANCE THE LORD DOES NOT ROAR WITHOUT CAUSE TEXT: Amos 3:1-8 1 Hear this word that Jehovah hath spoken against you, O children of Israel against the whole fam...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all? CAN A BIRD FALL IN A SNARE UPON THE EARTH WHERE NO GIN I...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SHALL _one_ TAKE UP A SNARE FROM THE EARTH? etc.] RV 'Shall a snare spring up from the ground?' etc. The SNARE is the bird-trap as a whole: the GIN (the word is a contraction of 'engine') is the mecha...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    CAN A BIRD. — Better, _Does the snare rise up from the ground, and take nothing at all?_” E.V. “take up” is due to ambiguity of the Hebrew. The idea is that Israel “like a silly dove” is falling into...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֲ תִפֹּ֤ל צִפֹּור֙ עַל ־פַּ֣ח הָ אָ֔רֶץ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Amos 3:3, Amos 7:14 THE MAN AND THE PROPHET THE Book of Amos opens one of the greatest stages in the religious development of mankind. Its originality is due to a few simple ideas, which it propels...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (d) Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin [is] for him? shall [one] take up a (e) snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all? (d) Can anything come without God's providence...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Somewhat? When the prophet speaks, has he no reason? God shews that he has sent him, by inflicting the punishments which he denounces._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The Lord is going on in his expostulations. He first shews, that by Israel's revolt that sweet communion between the Lord and his people was interrupted. Ca n two walk together except they be agreed?...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The third similitude now follows, _Will a bird fall on the earth, he says, without a fowler? _The Prophet means here that nothing happens without being foreseen by God; for as nets are laid for birds,...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    CAN A BIRD FALL IN A SNARE UPON THE EARTH, WHERE NO GIN [IS] FOR HIM?.... No, there must be a snare set, or a bird can never be taken in it; and that is done, not by chance, but with the design of the...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin [is] for him? shall [one] take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all? Ver. 5. _Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth? &c...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Will a lion roar, &c., when he hath no prey?_ “Naturalists assert that when the lion sees his prey, he roars before he rushes on it; and that at this roaring many animals show great fear. He likewise...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-8 The distinguishing favours of God to us, if they do not restrain from sin, shall not exempt from punishment. They could not expect communion with God, unless they first sought peace with him. Whe...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    A BIRD; a sparrow properly, one kind put for all sorts. FALL IN A SNARE: these are taken by nets spread on the earth for that end, and these nets are watched by the fowler, attending till the birds ar...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Amos 3:5 bird H6833 fall H5307 (H8799) snare H6341 earth H776 trap H4170 snare H6341 up H5927 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE INEVITABILITY OF JUDGMENT, BOTH BECAUSE OF WHAT YHWH IS, AND BECAUSE HE WILL ACT (AMOS 3:1). Following up on the idea in Amos 2:9 Amos commences this section of his prophecy (introduced by ‘hear t...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE COVENANT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN YHWH AND HIS PEOPLE (AMOS 3:1). The covenant relationship between YHWH and His people is revealed in this carefully constructed passage in which there is constant re...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Will a lion roar in the forest when he hath no prey?_ RETRIBUTION I. Retribution springs out of the nature of things. Poiset, in his travels, states that the lion has two different modes of hunting...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _You only have I known of all the families of the earth._ SIN IN THE HIGHLY-FAVOURED This is shameful ingratitude. The honour and blessing conferred on the Israelites gave the stain of ingratitude to...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 3:3 With a series of questions, Amos shows that disaster is coming for Israel. In nature, certain sequences of events lead to predictable outcomes. If a LION roars (vv....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] AMOS 3:3. TWO] The prophet and the Spirit of God. Israel did not believe that _God_ threatened such denunciations by the prophets (ch. Amos 6:1; Amos 1:7). Amos spoke because God com...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION VERSE 1-CH. 6:14 Part II. THREE ADDRESSES PARTICULARIZING THE SINS OF ISRAEL AND ANNOUNCING IMMINENT JUDGMENT. AMOS 3:1 § 1.

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Daniel 9:14; Ecclesiastes 9:12; Jeremiah 31:28...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Can a bird fall — So here for your sins, God will cast the net over you. Shall one take up a snare — The fowler will not take up the snare, before the prey be taken in it....

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