Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Amos 2:14
The swift — For their enemies shall be swifter than they. The strong — Natural strength of body shall not deliver. The mighty — The valiant man, the man of the greatest courage.
The swift — For their enemies shall be swifter than they. The strong — Natural strength of body shall not deliver. The mighty — The valiant man, the man of the greatest courage.
Verse Amos 2:14. _THE FLIGHT SHALL PERISH FROM THE SWIFT_] The swiftest shall not be able to save himself from a swifter destruction. None, by might, by counsel, or by fleetness, shall be able to esca...
Israel relied, against God, on his own strength. “Have we not,” they said, “taken to us horns by our own strength?” Amos 6:13. Amos tells them then, that every means of strength, resistance, flight, s...
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...
HIMSELF. his soul. Hebrew nephesh. App-13....
The retribution....
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...
A disaster, in which neither the swiftest nor the best equipped warrior will be able to escape, brings the kingdom of Israel to its end. _Therefore_ simply AND (as R.V.). _the flight shall perish fro...
_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 2:13-16 13 Behold, I will press you in your place, as a cart presseth that is full of sheaves. 14 And flight shall perish from the swift...
Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself: THEREFORE THE FLIGHT SHALL PERISH FROM THE SWIFT - even th...
2:14 flight (e-2) Or 'refuge,' as Jeremiah 25:35 ....
RABBAH] on the banks of the Upper Jabbok (2 Samuel 11:12). The shouting means the war-cry. 15. Some of the ancient translations, with which Jeremiah 49:3 (see RV) agrees, understand this v. as referri...
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...
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...
This doom Amos darkly foreshadows to be invasion and military overthrow, with all its attendant calamities....
וְ אָבַ֤ד מָנֹוס֙ מִ קָּ֔ל וְ חָזָ֖ק
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...
Therefore the flight shall perish from the (l) swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself: (l) None will be delivered by any means....
_Swift. Jeroboam I. Other kings are described afterwards. (St. Jerome) --- In the latter times all was in confusion. (Calmet)_...
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...
I explained yesterday the verse, in which the Prophet says, in the name of God, that the people were like a grievous and heavy burden, as though they were a wagon laden with many sheaves. I stated tha...
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,...
THEREFORE THE FLIGHT SHALL PERISH FROM THE SWIFT,.... They should be so straitened and cooped up, and be so loaded with pressures, that those, as swift of foot as Asahel, should not be able to make th...
Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself: Ver. 14. _Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift_]...
_Behold I am pressed under you_ Your sins have quite tired out my patience, and I am weary with bearing them: compare Isaiah 43:24; Malachi 2:17. In this sense the clause is understood by the LXX. and...
Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, literally, "is lost to the swift," he will not have time to escape, AND THE STRONG SHALL NOT STRENGTHEN HIS FORCE, NEITHER SHALL THE MIGHTY DELIVER HI...
AGAINST ISRAEL...
HIMSELF: _ Heb._ his soul or life...
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...
THEREFORE; because they first loaded God with their sins, and now he loads them with punishments, no way of escape shall be left. THE FLIGHT SHALL PERISH FROM THE SWIFT; not by swiftness of foot fleei...
Amos 2:14 flight H4498 perish H6 (H8804) swift H7031 strong H2389 strengthen H553 (H8762) power H3581 mighty...
THE CERTAINTY OF HIS JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL. IT WILL BE SUCH THAT IT WILL BE INESCAPABLE (AMOS 2:13). Israel's judgment is now described in terms of being run over by a heavy cart, fully loaded, and it wi...
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
_Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself._ EFFECT OF SIN ON THE SINNER We have here the supplement t...
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...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 2:14 The SWIFT will not be able to run away from coming destruction, and the STRONG and MIGHTY warrior will not be able to withstand it....
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...
Amos 9:1; Ecclesiastes 9:11; Isaiah 30:16; Jeremiah 9:23; Job 11:20...