Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Amos 2:12
Ye gave — Importuned them to drink wine, to violate their vow, and contemn God's law.
Ye gave — Importuned them to drink wine, to violate their vow, and contemn God's law.
Verse Amos 2:12. _BUT YE GAVE THE NAZARITES WINE_] This was expressly forbidden in the laws of their institution. See Numbers 6:1. _PROPHESY NOT._] They would not worship God, and they would not hear...
BUT YE GAVE THE NAZARITES WINE TO DRINK - Literally, “and,” (this, on their part, was the consequence of what God did for them) “ye caused the Nazarites to drink wine.” God appointed; Israel strove to...
CHAPTER 2 _ 1. Moab (Amos 2:1) _ 2. Judah (Amos 2:4) 3. Israel (Amos 2:6) Amos 2:1. So fierce was the hatred of Moab that they dishonored the bo
THE SIN AND DOOM OF ISRAEL. Suddenly the prophet turns and confronts Israel. The benighted heathen nations have sinned and must be punished. What of Israel, God's chosen people? Why, just because they...
YE GAVE, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 6:2; Numbers 6:3). App-92....
Amos 2:6. The sin of Israel, and its punishment 6 16. At last Amos comes to Israel. The Israelites might listen with equanimity, or even with satisfaction, whilst their neighbours" faults were being e...
The ingratitude shewn by Israel, in thus dishonouring its Lord and Benefactor....
Further marks of God's favour. He had not only bestowed on them material blessings; He had provided also for their moral and spiritual needs: He had raised up among them prophets to declare His will,...
But the Israelites had refused to respect either. They had tempted the Nazirites to break their vow; and had striven to silence the prophets. YE SHALL NOT PROPHESY] Cf. 1 Kings 22:13-28 (Micaiah); Amo...
_MORE ABOUT ISRAEL'S TRANSGRESSIONS -- AMOS 2:11-16:_ God raised up some of the sons of the children of Israel to be prophets. Some of the young men dedicated themselves to be Nazirites. Prophets stoo...
PUNISHMENT PROMISED, THE COVENANT NATIONSISRAEL TEXT: Amos 2:9-12 9 Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I des...
But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not. BUT YE GAVE THE NAZARITES WINE TO DRINK - ye so despised these my favours as to tempt the Nazarite to bre...
ISRAEL'S SINS AND INGRATITUDE 6-8. Israel is now threatened in the same form as the rest, but Amos 2:6 were not spoken by Amos at Bethel; they form the conclusion of the preface which he wrote after...
TEMAN was the name of a city and district of EDOM, 15 m. from Petra. The ruins of BOZRAH are 4 m. SE. of the Dead Sea. 13.Judges 11 and Jeremiah 49:1 show how eager the AMMONITES were to 'enlarge thei...
THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 2 PUNISHMENT FOR MOAB’S PEOPLE V1 This is what the *Lord says: ‘I will certainly punish the people in Moab for their man...
God added to the mercies of His providence, the transcendent blessings of special revelation. The prophets of Israel were numerous, and renowned, and exposed to frequent persecution, _e.g.,_ the cases...
וַ תַּשְׁק֥וּ אֶת ־הַ נְּזִרִ֖ים יָ֑יִן וְ
ATROCITIES AND ATROCITIES Amos 1:3 - Amos 2:1 LIKE all the prophets of Israel, Amos receives oracles for foreign nations. Unlike them, however, he arranges these oracles not after, but before, his in...
NEITHER SHALL ISRAEL ESCAPE Amos 2:6-16 First the prophet enumerates Israel's sins. They were unjust to the poor, carrying their extortions to such lengths as to goad the poor to desperation. They we...
Having thus uttered the word of God concerning the surrounding nations, thereby revealing the fact of His government over all, the prophet turned to Judah, and declared that she also was to share the...
The Lord having reckoned with all the neighboring nations, Israel's sworn foes, and having also begun with Judah, now takes in hand her sister Israel. And a solemn account it is. Chiefly beginning in...
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...
_GIVING WINE TO THE NAZARITE_ ‘But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink.’ Amos 2:12 Let us ascertain, as well as we can, what lessons it may be calculated to convey to persons situated as you and I...
But it now follows, _Ye have to the Nazarites quaffed wine, and on the Prophets ye have laid a command, that they should not prophesy _God complains here that the service which he had instituted had b...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 AND 2. In the outset Jehovah, proclaiming His own rights from the place of His own throne, roars from Zion and utters His voice from Jerusalem. Afterwards,...
BUT YE GAVE THE NAZARITES WINE TO DRINK,.... Contrary to their vow and calling, and in contempt of it, and to make them like themselves; they either persuaded them, or forced them to it: AND COMMANDE...
But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not. Ver. 12. _But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink_] _Opponit iam Propheta pessimam gratiam,_ saith Gualther....
_I raised up your sons for prophets_ Such were Moses, Joshua, Samuel, and many others; _and of your young men for Nazarites_ Who, by devoting themselves to my service in a peculiar manner, and by obse...
But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink, contrary to the command of the Lord, Cf Numbers 6:2, AND COMMANDED THE PROPHETS, SAYING, PROPHESY NOT; they refused to hear the words which the Lord told them...
AGAINST ISRAEL...
9-16 We need often to be reminded of the mercies we have received; which add much to the evil of the sins we have committed. They had helps for their souls, which taught them how to make good use of...
BUT YE, for whose benefit both Nazarites and prophets were raised, you who should have heard their word, and imitated their example, GAVE THE NAZARITES WINE; importuned, urged, or it may be (as is the...
Amos 2:12 Nazirites H5139 wine H3196 drink H8248 (H8686) commanded H6680 (H8765) prophets H5030 saying H559 ...
THEY HAD TRANSGRESSED IN SPITE OF ALL THAT YHWH HAD DONE FOR THEM (AMOS 2:9). YHWH then described how great their debt was to Him. The land over which they were transgressing was the very land which H...
YHWH'S JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL (AMOS 2:6). While this judgment on Israel certainly initially follows the previous sevenfold pattern it is distinctive in that it manifestly then goes on to break it. There i...
CONTENTS: Judgments pronounced upon Judah, Moab and Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Amos. CONCLUSION: To keep not the commandments of God's Word, making no conscience of them, is to despise the wisdom, jus...
Amos 2:2. _Kirioth,_ a city of Moab, having palaces. Jeremiah 48:24. Amos 2:6. _For three transgressions of Israel._ This phrase, explained in Amos 1:3, is repeate
_And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites._ DIVINE APPOINTMENTS AND THEIR FRUSTRATION The sin and folly of their conduct is manifest when we consider-- I. The a...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 2:6 In the introduction to this section (Amos 2:6), Amos shows that Israel, far from being better than its neighbors, is even more worthy of condemnation. This is followed by four ex...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 2:6. ISRAEL] The ten tribes the main object of the prophecy. First, prevalent crimes of injustice and oppression, shameless immorality, and daring contempt of God. AMOS 2:6. SO...
EXPOSITION AMOS 2:1 Judgment on Moab. AMOS 2:1 MOAB. The prophet now denounces the other nation connected by ties of blood with Israel (see on Amos 1:13). Moab's hostility
Let's turn now to the book of Amos. In the first verse of Amos he introduces himself. These are the words of Amos, who was among the herdmen [or a shepherd] at Tekoa (Amos 1:1), Now Tekoa is a little...
1 Thessalonians 2:15; 1 Thessalonians 2:16; Acts 4:18; Acts 5:28;...