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Verse Amos 4:10. _I HAVE SENT - THE PESTILENCE_] After the _blasting_
and the _mildew_, the _pestilence_ came; and it acted among them as
one of the _plagues_ of Egypt. Besides this, he had suffered...
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I HAVE SENT AMONG YOU THE PESTILENCE AFTER THE MANNER OF EGYPT - that
is, after the way in which God had dealt with Egypt . God had twice
promised, when the memory of the plagues which He sent on Egyp...
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CHAPTER 4
The Second Discourse
_ 1. Divine threatening and irony (Amos 4:1) _
2. Yet have ye not returned unto Me (Amos 4:6)
3. Prepare to meet thy God (Amos 4:12)...
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ISRAEL'S DENSENESS. What is the real cause of conduct that merits such
punishment? At the root of all the evil is a sham religion, a religion
which in its mere formality and gross corruption has degen...
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I HAVE SENT, &c. Ref to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:25.Deuteronomy 28:21;
Deuteronomy 28:27; Deuteronomy 28:60).
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Here the people at large are addressed by the prophet, perhaps at some
festal religious gathering....
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The five unheeded chastisements which have passed over Israel. The
description of each ends with the pathetic refrain, indicating its
failure to produce the desired effect, "Yet have ye not returned u...
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Pestilence and the sword. By the pestilence (_déber_) is meant what
we should term an epidemic accompanied by great mortality, such as
under the insalubrious sanitary conditions of Eastern life, are o...
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_YOU HAVE NOT RETURNED TO GOD -- AMOS 4:6-11:_ Five times the Lord
described efforts He had made to rescue Israel from sin. But each time
He said, "Yet you did not return to me," or "still you rejecte...
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REASON CALLS FOR REPENTANCECHASTENING IN THE PAST SHOULD MAKE THEM
THINK
TEXT: Amos 4:6-11
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And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and
want of bread in all your places; y...
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And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and
want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me,
saith the LORD. I ALSO HAVE GIVEN YOU. Yahweh details His seve...
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THE SECOND ADDRESS
1-3. The heartless luxury of the rich women.
4, 5. The elaborate sacrifices and pilgrimages.
6-12. The failure of God's chastisements to produce amendment.
1. These pampered wome...
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AFTER THE MANNER OF EGYPT] 'Life and death march in “double
companies” through Egypt. All epidemics revel here.' 2 Kings 13:7 is
an illustration of the loss of horses. We are to think of the people
as...
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THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD
AMOS
_MARK KIRKPATRICK_
CHAPTER 4
THE WOMEN WHO LOVE LUXURY
V1 Listen to this, you cows of Bashan, who live on the mountains of
Samaria.
You hurt poor...
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WITH THE CAPTIVITY OF YOUR HORSES. — This, the marginal reading, is
more exact. Egypt is the birthplace of the plague or black death, and
the circumstances augmenting its horror are here terribly port...
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שִׁלַּ֨חְתִּי בָכֶ֥ם דֶּ֨בֶר֙ בְּ
דֶ֣רֶךְ מִצְרַ֔יִם...
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1. FOR WORSHIP, CHASTISEMENT
Amos 4:4
In chapter 2 Amos contrasted the popular conception of religion as
worship with God's-conception of it as history. He placed a picture of
the sanctuary, hot with...
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CALAMITIES ARE GOD'S WARNINGS
Amos 4:1-11
Speaking after the imagery of his vocation, Amos the herdsman compares
the rich and powerful of Samaria, who were living in luxury and
wantonness, to the kin...
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The second discourse consists of Jehovah's summons to the people.
It commences with a severe and terrible indictment of the women. He
addressed them as "Ye kine of Bashan," which reveals the degradati...
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I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of (l) Egypt:
your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your
horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto...
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_Egypt, as I published the Egyptians, (Calmet) or the Hebrews, when
they came thence, and wished to return. (Chaldean; St. Cyril) ---
Horses. I have deprived you of them, (Haydock) under Achab and
Joa...
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Here we have an account of the Lord's sore judgments upon Israel; by
famine, by withholding the fruits of the earth, and by marking his
judgments in a distinguishing manner, causing it to rain upon on...
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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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God now expostulates with the people, because their perverseness had
not been subdued even by additional punishments; for he had in vain
exhorted and stimulated them to repentance. He says, that they...
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Chapter 4 presents the oppression of the poor, and the worship which
the children of Israel rendered at will in the places they had chosen.
God also would act as He saw fit. He had indeed already done...
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I HAVE SENT AMONG YOU THE PESTILENCE, AFTER THE MANNER OF EGYPT,....
Like that which was sent among the firstborn of Egypt, and cut them
off in one night; or when in the way of Egypt, as the Targum; e...
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I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your
young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your
horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto you...
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_I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt_ I
have sent such pestilence among you as I formerly sent upon Egypt: Or,
such as has frequently taken place in Egypt. “The unwholesome...
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AFTER THE MANNER:
Or, in the way
HAVE TAKEN AWAY YOUR HORSES:
_ Heb._ with the captivity of your horses...
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6-13 See the folly of carnal hearts; they wander from one creature to
another, seeking for something to satisfy, and labour for that which
satisfies not; yet, after all, they will not incline their e...
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I HAVE SENT; you have died of plague, but I commissioned the disease,
I sent it, and it swept you away in such manner that any observant eye
might have seen the hand of God against you in it, and migh...
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Amos 4:10 sent H7971 (H8765) plague H1698 manner H1870 Egypt H4714 men
H970 killed H2026 (H8804) sword...
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YHWH FIVE TIMES EXPRESSES HIS CONCERN THAT IN SPITE OF HIS JUDGMENTS
ISRAEL HAVE NOT RETURNED TO HIM (AMOS 4:6).
Having made clear His indictment of the women and men of Israel, both
because of social...
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TWO INDICTMENTS OF THE PEOPLE WHICH WILL RESULT IN A SERIES OF
CHASTISEMENTS (AMOS 4:1).
A new oracle now begins with the words ‘hear this word ---' (compare
Amos 3:1; Amos 5:1) and consists of indict...
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CONTENTS: Threatening against the oppressors in Israel. Israel
reminded of God's chastening in the past.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: God designs all His providential rebukes to influence men
to tur...
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Amos 4:1. _Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan._ The strong bulls of
Bashan are celebrated in scripture. Psalms 22:13. _Vaccæ pingues,_
fat cows, haughty women, abandoned to luxurious ease, and who, equ...
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_Your young men have I slain with the sword. .. yet have ye not
returned unto Me, saith the Lord._
GOD’S DEALINGS WITH US NATIONALLY, AND THEIR OBJECT
While we are in this state of trial and probatio...
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_And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities._
AFFLICTIONS PROVIDENTIAL
There is a material difference between what may be called permissive
and active providences; and between su...
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AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 4:1 This second oracle (see note on 2:6–6:14) is
composed of three parts. In Amos 4:1, Amos expands somewhat on the
points made in...
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
Amos 4:6. Teeth] Famine, as threatened in the law (Deuteronomy 28:48;
Deuteronomy 28:57; cf. 2 Kings 8:1)....
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EXPOSITION
AMOS 4:1
_§ 2. Second address. The prophet reproves the voluptuous women of
Samaria, and fortells their captivity _(Amos 4:1);_ with bitter irony
he describes the people's devotion to idol...
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Then the Lord says,
Hear this word, ye cows of Bashan (Amos 4:1),
They worshiped the calf so God calls them a bunch of cows. But because
they worshiped the calf, He speaks disdainfully concerning th...
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2 Kings 10:32; 2 Kings 13:3; 2 Kings 13:7; 2 Kings 8:12; Amos 8:3;...
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Your horses — The riders being killed. The stink — So great
slaughter hath been made in your camp that there were not sufficient
to bury the slain....