Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Amos 2:2
Kirioth — A principal city of this country. Moab — The Moabites. Shall die — Be destroyed. With tumult — Such as soldiers in fight or assaults make, when they carry all by force.
Kirioth — A principal city of this country. Moab — The Moabites. Shall die — Be destroyed. With tumult — Such as soldiers in fight or assaults make, when they carry all by force.
Verse Amos 2:2. _THE PALACES OF KIRIOTH_] This was one of the principal cities of the Moabites. _MOAB SHALL DIE WITH TUMULT_] All these expressions seem to refer to this city's being taken by _storm_...
IT SHALL DEVOUR THE PALACES OF KERIOTH - Literally, “the cities,” that is, a collection of cities. It may have received a plural form upon some enlargement, as Jerusalem received a dual form, as a dou...
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
MOAB. With Moab the prophet concludes his list of Israel's foes. When Israel arrived on the E. of the Jordan, the Moabites inhabited the high tableland E. of the Dead Sea, whither they had been driven...
PALACES. See note on Amos 1:4. KIRIOTH: or, his cities. Now _el Kureiyat,_ or Kiraiathaim, between Dibon and Medeba. Mentioned by Mesha on the Moabite Stone. See App-54. SHOUTING. war-cry. Cy. Amos...
_the palaces of Kerioth_ more exactly ḲERIYYOTH: named here and Jeremiah 48:41 (cf. Jeremiah 48:24) as a representative city of Moab, and hence evidently a considerable place, if not the capital of Mo...
Amos 2:1 . MOAB. The Moabites inhabited the elevated and fertile table-land (Heb. _Mîshôr_, "level plain," Deuteronomy 3:10 &c.), on the east of the Dead Sea. By the Israelites, the deep chasm formed...
_THE TRANSGRESSIONS OF MOAB -- AMOS 2:1-3:_ The fact that Moab had gone on committing one sin after another caused God to pronounce judgment upon that nation. The Moabites were also descendants of Lot...
PUNISHMENT PROMISED, THE HEATHEN NATIONSMOAB TEXT: Amos 2:1-3 1 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Moab, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned t...
But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet: BUT I WILL SEND A FIRE ... AND IT SHA...
THE SINS OF ISRAEL'S NEIGHBOURS AND THE PUNISHMENTS WHICH SHOULD FOLLOW 1. We may paraphrase the main part of the sentence thus: 'The words of Amos, describing what he saw in prophetic vision.' HERDM...
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...
KIRIOTH. — This properly signifies a group of towns, but here refers to a single large town in Moab, the modern _Kureiât._ (Comp. Jeremiah 48:24.) CURSE ON JUDAH. Great privileges have met with mad a...
וְ שִׁלַּחְתִּי ־אֵ֣שׁ בְּ מֹואָ֔ב וְ אָכְלָ֖
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...
JUDAH SHALL BE JUDGED ALSO Amos 1:11-15; Amos 2:1-5 _Edom_ was Esau; that is, the people were closely akin to Israel; perhaps for that very reason the hatred on either side became more and more invet...
The second verse of this first chapter gives the key to the book. Jehovah declared Himself in judgment. Beginning at the point farthest from Israel, the prophet delivered his messages to the nations a...
_Fire: war under Ozias. (Calmet) --- Carioth. Septuagint, "the cities." Carioth has this meaning, but is was also the name of a great city, Jeremias xlviii. 24. (Haydock)_...
We have some account of Moab's cruelty, for which the Lord is here bringing him to accounts 2 Kings 3:26. It is worthy observation, and I take occasion to remark it in this place, in the Lord's disple...
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...
He therefore adds a threatening, _I will send a fire on Moab, which shall devour the palaces of _ קריות _, Koriut _We have stated that what the Prophet means by these modes of speaking is that God wou...
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 I WILL SEND A FIRE UPON MOAB,.... Either on the whole country, or on some particular city so called, as in all the other prophecies; and there was a city called Moab, now Areopolis, Jeremiah 48:4...
But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, [and] with the sound of the trumpet: Ver. 2. _But I will send a fire_] See...
_For three transgressions of Moab_ Moab and Ammon being nearly related, (see Genesis 19:37,) and bordering upon each other, they are usually joined together in the threatenings of the prophets. _Becau...
but I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth, the capital in the valley of the Arnon; AND MOAB SHALL DIE, be overthrown in battle, WITH TUMULT, WITH SHOUTING, AND WITH...
AGAINST MOAB AND JUDAH...
1-8 The evil passions of the heart break out in various forms; but the Lord looks to our motives, as well as our conduct. Those that deal cruelly, shall be cruelly dealt with. Other nations were reck...
I WILL SEND A FIRE: see AMOS 1:4. MOAB; some think, but I know not on what ground, that there was a city of this name, and meant here, but on better reason we conclude it to be the whole country, or b...
Amos 2:2 send H7971 (H8765) fire H784 Moab H4124 devour H398 (H8804) palaces H759 Kerioth H7152 Moab...
6). YHWH'S JUDGMENT ON MOAB (AMOS 2:1). Unlike the remainder Moab are not condemned for any action against God's people. Rather they are condemned for their deliberate desecration of the bones of the...
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
_I will not turn away the punishment thereof._ GOD’S DEALING WITH NATIONS I. The opportunity for repentance which all possess. The punishment of the six heathen nations, as of Judah and Israel, opens...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 2:1 MOAB was Ammon’s neighbor to the south, perhaps included here because Moab and Ammon were both descended from Lot through his daughters (Genesis 19:37
CRITICAL NOTES.] BONES] An act of cruelty revenged; others, an insult to the remains of a dead king, probably the king joined in alliance with Jehoshaphat and Jehoram (2 Kings 3:9). AMOS 2:2. KIR.] A...
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 1:14; Isaiah 9:5; Jeremiah 48:24; Jeremiah 48:34; Jeremiah 48:41