Hate the evil and love the good, Cf Romans 12:9, and establish judgment in the gate, so that justice would truly be administered in all cases brought to trial; it may be that the Lord God of hosts, in that event, will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph, to the few of the northern nation who would be left after the punishment now impending.
Verse 15. _HATE THE EVIL, AND LOVE THE GOOD_] What _ruins_ you, _avoid_; what _helps_ you, _cleave_ to. And as a proof that you take this advice, purify the _seats of justice_; and then expect God to...
HATE THE EVIL AND LOVE THE GOOD - Man will not cease wholly to “seek evil,” unless he “hate” it; nor will he “seek good,” unless he “love” it. Jerome: “He ‘hateth evil,’ who not only is not overcome b...
CHAPTER 5 The Third Discourse _ 1. The lamentation (Amos 5:1) _ 2. Seek the Lord and ye shall live (Amos 5:4) 3. The wailing (Amos 5:16) 4. The captivity announced ...
THE IMPENDING PUNISHMENT. The prophet gives his next few words the form of a dirge (_kî nah_,_ Amos 5:1_). This (Amos 5:2) is characterised by the peculiar _kî nah-metre_, consisting of three beats or...
HATE THE EVIL, he. Compare Psalms 34:14; Psalms 97:10; Romans 12:9, This concludes the last of the three exhortations. IT MAY BE. Hebrew. _u lay._ The whole versa is the exhortation: but the Heb, acce...
Amos reiterates more earnestly the exhortation of Amos 5:4_; Amos 5:6_: if Israel will but amend its ways, perchance even yet there may be a remnant to which Jehovah will be gracious. _Seek_ The same...
The exhortation of Amos 5:14 is repeated in yet stronger terms: _Hate_the evil, and _love_the good. Cf. Isaiah 1:16 f. _establish judgment in the gate_ Rather, _set up firmly, set it standing_, oppose...
_CHOOSE GOOD INSTEAD OF EVIL -- AMOS 5:9-15 _ Life is a matter of the choices that we make. Israel chose to have fair judges and honest witnesses. Israel did not want to be reminded of her sins so she...
RIGHTEOUSNESS DEMANDS REPENTANCEHATE EVIL AND LOVE GOD TEXT: Amos 5:14-20 14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live; and so Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be with you, as ye say. 15 Hate the...
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph. HATE THE EVIL, AND LOVE THE GOOD - (Isaiah 1...
THE THIRD ADDRESS 1-6. A lament, a warning, and an invitation. 7, 10-20. Denunciation of injustice and oppression, with threats of pestilence and judgment. 21-27. A repudiation of their attempt to...
THE REMNANT] At best a mere fraction will escape. 16, 17. STREETS] RV 'broad ways': what we call squares and open spaces. The WAILING is the tremulous, high-pitched lament for the dead. The most neces...
THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 5 GOD ENCOURAGES ISRAEL’S PEOPLE TO COME BACK TO HIM V1 People in Israel, listen to this song. ‘This funeral song is ab...
Break in like a beam of sunshine in the darkness. The fearful doom, already spoken of, is after all conditional. Let a moral change be wrought in them, and even now Jehovah, God of hosts, may deign to...
שִׂנְאוּ ־רָע֙ וְ אֶ֣הֱבוּ טֹ֔וב וְ הַצִּ֥יגו
2. FOR WORSHIP, JUSTICE Amos 5:1 In the next of these groups of oracles Amos continues his attack on the national ritual, and now contrasts it with the service of God in public life-the relief of the...
“PREPARE TO MEET THY GOD” Amos 4:12-13; Amos 5:1-15 Worse judgments than those mentioned in the previous verses were in store but before they are inflicted, the entire nation is summoned to the divin...
The third discourse was a description of Jehovah's judgment. This opened with a lamentation for the virgin of Israel, "The virgin of Israel is fallen, she shall no more rise, she is cast down upon her...
_May be. God will not be wanting on his side. But this implies that man may find a difficulty in seeking good, and neglect to do it, though he may if he please, with God's assistance. (Worthington) --...
The first verse in this paragraph is a confirmation, if it were needed, of what I advanced in my observations on the former. Seeking the Lord, implies the hope of finding him, and indeed the promise 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...
_SEEKING GOOD, AND HATING EVIL_ ‘Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken. Hate the evil, and love the good.’ Amos 5:14 Not...
The Prophet inculcates the same truth; and he did this designedly; for he saw that nothing was more difficult than to bring this people to repentance, who, in the first place, were by nature refractor...
After having deplored the ruin of Israel, He contrasts the places of their false worship with Jehovah, the Creator, and exhorts them to come unto Him and live. But Israel put off the thought of the ev...
HATE THE EVIL, AND LOVE THE GOOD,.... Evil is not only not to be sought, but to be hated, especially the evil of sin, because of its evil nature, and pernicious effects and consequences; and, if it wa...
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph. Ver. 15. _Hate the evil, and love the good_] Go...
_Seek good, and not evil_ Give your minds to the practice of true piety and virtue. Do that which is just and good, and endeavour to make others do the same. _That ye may live_ That it may be well wit...
7-17 The same almighty power can, for repenting sinners, easily turn affliction and sorrow into prosperity and joy, and as easily turn the prosperity of daring sinners into utter darkness. Evil times...
Slight dislikes will do little in this ease, you rulers and judges must heartily HATE, and show that you hate, the evil, both ways, doings, contrivers, and abettors of the evil among the people and yo...
Amos 5:15 Hate H8130 (H8798) evil H7451 love H157 (H8798) good H2896 Establish H3322 (H8685) justice...
THE SECOND CALL TO REPENTANCE (AMOS 5:14). So the call went out to those who would hear to seek good and not evil so that they might enjoy fullness of life, and in order that YHWH might truly be ‘wit...
A LAMENTATION OVER ISRAEL (AMOS 5:1). While speaking powerfully Amos had no joy in what was to happen to Israel, and having pronounced judgment on them, he now laments what must necessarily be their e...
REMNANT (_ See Scofield) - (Jeremiah 15:21). _...
Amos 5:4. _For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:_ And that it just the message of God to professing Christians now: «Seek ye me.» Get away from your mere ce...
CONTENTS: God's lamentation over Israel and captivity foretold. The day of the Lord. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: If men will not take a right course to obtain the favor of God, God will take an eff...
Amos 5:2. _The virgin of Israel is fallen._ Babylon, which had never been stormed by a besieging army, is called a virgin. Isaiah 47:1. Thus Israel, whose kingdom had never yet been wholly subdued, is...
_The Lord of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph._ A REMNANT SAVED There is a mystery of mercy in the destruction and salvation; but for the destruction and the salvation meeting togeth...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 5:1 Although they face imminent destruction, God still pleads with his people to return to him. ⇐ ⇔
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 5:14 God appeals to his people again (compare vv. Amos 5:4). In that evil time (v. Amos 5:13), they should
CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 5:14. Spoken] They fancied that God was with them by virtue of the covenant with Abraham (John 8:39). AMOS 5:15. PERHAPS] indicates difficulty in their case, not uncertainty wi...
EXPOSITION VERSE 1-CH. 6:14 § 8. _Third address_:_ the prophet utters a lamentation over the fall of Israel_. (Amos 6:1.) He calls her to repentance, while he shows wherein she has declined from the...
Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation (Amos 5:1), Weeping over the house of Israel now. The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her l...
1 Kings 20:31; 1 Thessalonians 5:21; 1 Thessalonians 5:22; 2 Chronicles 19:6;...
The evil — All evil among the people, and yourselves. Love — Commend, encourage, defend: let your heart be toward good things, and good men. Remnant — What the invasions of enemies, or the civil wars...