Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Amos 3:2
Know — Chosen, adopted to be my peculiar ones. Therefore — Because you have all these obligations and abused all these mercies.
Know — Chosen, adopted to be my peculiar ones. Therefore — Because you have all these obligations and abused all these mercies.
Verse Amos 3:2. _YOU ONLY HAVE I KNOWN_] I have taken no other people to be my own people. I have _approved_ of you, loved you, fed, sustained, and defended you; but because you have forsaken me, have...
YOU ONLY HAVE I KNOWN OF ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH; THEREFORE I WILL PUNISH YOU FOR ALL YOUR INIQUITIES - Such is the one law of God. The nearer anyone is brought unto God, the worse is his fall,...
II. THE PROPHETIC MESSAGES UNCOVERING THE CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE CHAPTER 3 The First Discourse _ 1. There is cause for judgment (Amos 3:1) _ 2. The coming judgment visitation (Amos 3:9) Amos 3:1...
ISRAEL'S RESPONSIBILITY AND THE PROPHET'S OBLIGATION. Amos, after addressing the children of Israel, includes Judah by adding the whole family, unless this is a gloss, as it may be, since the inclusio...
_You only_&c. The pron. is emphatic by its position, in the Heb., as in the English. _known_ i.e. known favourably, noticed, regarded: so Genesis 18:19, "I have _known_him to the end that he may comma...
_JUDGMENT AGAINST THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL -- AMOS 3:1-3:_ God had brought the family of Israel out of bondage in Egypt. Now God's judgment would be poured out against His own people because of their tr...
YOU ONLY HAVE I KNOWN— "You have I chosen from amongst all people, for mine inheritance and my kingdom. I have distinguished you with particular favours and privileges, and therefore expected from you...
PENITENCE PROMOTEDREASON CALLS FOR REPENTANCE THE LORD DOES NOT ROAR WITHOUT CAUSE TEXT: Amos 3:1-8 1 Hear this word that Jehovah hath spoken against you, O children of Israel against the whole fam...
You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities. YOU ONLY HAVE I KNOWN - i:e., acknowledged as my people, and treated with special favour...
THE FIRST ADDRESS 1-8. A call to attention. 9, 10. The oppressions practised by the powerful. 11-15. The disasters which should overtake them, their sanctuary and their palaces. 1. 'Race' would be...
THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 3 GOD WARNS ISRAEL’S PEOPLE V1 People in Israel, listen to this message. The *Lord has spoken against you. This message...
KNOWN. — The knowledge of God is love. There was special knowledge and intimacy between God and Israel. Upon such knowledge followed advantages and privileges innumerable. THEREFORE I WILL... — This...
רַ֚ק אֶתְכֶ֣ם יָדַ֔עְתִּי מִ כֹּ֖ל מִשְׁפְּחֹ֣ות...
CIVILIZATION AND JUDGMENT Amos 3:1 - Amos 4:3 WE now enter the Second Section of the Book of Amos: Chapter s 3-6. It is a collection of various oracles of denunciation, grouped partly by the recurren...
THE LORD'S WORD MUST COME TRUE Amos 3:1-15 The closer our relationship with God, the more searching His scrutiny and chastening. The sins of God's children which may seem of slight consequence are ri...
Having thus uttered the declamations of Jehovah's judgment on all the nations, the prophet delivered his special message to Israel in a series of three discourses. In each the introductory word is, "H...
You (a) only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities. (a) I have only chosen you to be mine among all other people, and yet you have forsake...
_Known, with love, (Haydock) and favoured with the law, &c. Above all, styling you my people, Exodus xix. 6., and Ezechiel xx. 5. (Calmet) --- Visit. That is, punish. (Challoner) --- I will treat you...
I beg the Reader to notice what I before remarked in the preceding Chapter, though Judah and Israel were separately there arraigned, yet here the whole family arc considered as one, consequently Judah...
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...
_CONTEMPT OF SPIRITUAL PRIVILEGES PUNISHED_ ‘You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.’ Amos 3:2 The language in which the Old Tes...
The Prophet afterwards declares what he had in charge, _Only you have I known of all the families of the earth: I will therefore visit you for your iniquities. _Many think that he still concedes to th...
After having specified each one of the nations that were found on the territory promised to Abraham, God addresses Judah and Israel together-the whole family whom He had brought up from Egypt. These o...
YOU ONLY HAVE I KNOWN OF ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH,.... All the families or nations of the earth, and all the inhabitants of it, are known by the Lord, as he is the omniscient God; but none had be...
You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities. Ver. 2. _You only have I known_] That is, owned and honoured, called and culled, chosen an...
_Hear this word against the whole family_, &c. All that family of which Jacob, or Israel, was the head. The word _family_ is equivalent to _people_ here and in the following verse. _You only have I kn...
THE LORD READY TO PUNISH...
You only have I known of all the families of the earth, acknowledging them and choosing them on the basis of His peculiar favor toward them; THEREFORE I WILL PUNISH YOU FOR ALL YOUR INIQUITIES; for th...
PUNISH: _ Heb._ visit upon...
1-8 The distinguishing favours of God to us, if they do not restrain from sin, shall not exempt from punishment. They could not expect communion with God, unless they first sought peace with him. Whe...
YOU ONLY HAVE I KNOWN; chosen, made near to myself adopted to be my peculiar ones, to be sons and daughters to me; to you only have I revealed my whole will, and given you my law for your rule and dir...
Amos 3:2 known H3045 (H8804) families H4940 earth H127 punish H6485 (H8799) iniquities H5771 only -...
THE COVENANT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN YHWH AND HIS PEOPLE (AMOS 3:1). The covenant relationship between YHWH and His people is revealed in this carefully constructed passage in which there is constant re...
THE INEVITABILITY OF JUDGMENT, BOTH BECAUSE OF WHAT YHWH IS, AND BECAUSE HE WILL ACT (AMOS 3:1). Following up on the idea in Amos 2:9 Amos commences this section of his prophecy (introduced by ‘hear t...
THEREFORE It is noteworthy that Jehovah's controversy with the Gentile cities which hated Israel is brief: "I will send a fire." But Israel had been brought into the place of privilege and so of resp...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's controversy with Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Amos. CONCLUSION: Judgment begins at the house of God. The nearer men are to God in profession, and the kinder notice God has taken of t...
Amos 3:1. _Against the whole family_ of the twelve tribes, _which I brought up from Egypt._ It was a laborious work to make them hear. The prophets did not confine their labours to local districts. Am...
_You only have I known of all the families of the earth._ SIN IN THE HIGHLY-FAVOURED This is shameful ingratitude. The honour and blessing conferred on the Israelites gave the stain of ingratitude to...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 3:1 HEAR THIS WORD introduces the first three messages against Israel (Amos 3:1; Amos 4:1
CRITICAL NOTES.] HEAR] Cf. beginning of chaps. 5 & 6, indicating this chap. to be one whole address. WHOLE] Though the ten tribes threatened, yet all Israel are concerned and warned. AMOS 3:2. KNOWN]...
EXPOSITION VERSE 1-CH. 6:14 Part II. THREE ADDRESSES PARTICULARIZING THE SINS OF ISRAEL AND ANNOUNCING IMMINENT JUDGMENT. AMOS 3:1 § 1.
Hear this word [Amos said] that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, and against the whole family (Amos 3:1) So that would include Judah also. which I brought up from the land of...
1 Peter 4:17; Acts 17:26; Daniel 9:12; Deuteronomy 10:15; Deu