Amos 5 - Introduction
AMOS 3-6. FULLER STATEMENT OF ISRAEL'S SIN AND DOOM. There are three main sections, each beginning Hear ye this word (Amos 3:1; Amos 4:1; Amos 5:1).... [ Continue Reading ]
AMOS 3-6. FULLER STATEMENT OF ISRAEL'S SIN AND DOOM. There are three main sections, each beginning Hear ye this word (Amos 3:1; Amos 4:1; Amos 5:1).... [ Continue Reading ]
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 stresses followed by two. In the prophetic vision Israel appears as already overthrown irretrievabl... [ Continue Reading ]
ISRAEL'S DELUSIONS. The prophet resumes the subject of Israel's delusions, how she disregards the essential conditions of real welfare. In Amos 5:18 he deals with a peculiar example of this, the conception or rather misconception of the day of Yahweh. The current belief was that when the day of Yahw... [ Continue Reading ]