CRITICAL NOTES.] KINE] Fat and wanton, yet effeminate and luxuriant; reproved not for fierceness, but unfeeling insolence and oppression. SAY] (1) Wives here intended, voluptuous women after the analogy of Isaiah 3:16; Isaiah 32:9. “The sin of these women consisted in the tyrannical oppression of t... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 4:4. Gilgal] The scene of idolatry. MULTIPLY] Irony. Since you will not be reformed, go on, try whether God likes your sacrifices; eager as you are in worship, you will not prevent punishment. Your tithe and incense only increase guilt. AMOS 4:5. LEAVEN] against the law (Lev... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 4:6. Teeth] Famine, as threatened in the law (Deuteronomy 28:48; Deuteronomy 28:57; cf. 2 Kings 8:1). AMOS 4:7. YET THREE] The latter rain, which fell in latter part of February and beginning of March, when most required (1 Kings 17:1). ONE CITY] Distress so great that peopl... [ Continue Reading ]
THREATENED EVIL ESCAPED BY RETURN TO GOD.—_Amos 4:12_ “When he has said, ‘This will I do to thee,’ he is silent as to what he will do, in order that whilst Israel is left in uncertainty as to the particular kind of punishment (which is all the more terrible because all kinds of things are imagined)... [ Continue Reading ]