Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Amos 4:6
An I — The Lord who gave many blessings to win you to repentance, hath also tried what might be done by judgments. Cleanness of teeth — This is a description of famine.
An I — The Lord who gave many blessings to win you to repentance, hath also tried what might be done by judgments. Cleanness of teeth — This is a description of famine.
Verse Amos 4:6. _CLEANNESS OF TEETH_] Scarcity of bread, as immediately explained. Ye shall have no trouble in cleaning your teeth, for ye shall have nothing to eat. _YET HAVE YE NOT RETURNED UNTO M...
AND I, I TOO HAVE GIVEN YOU - Such had been their gifts to God, worthless, because destitute of that which alone God requires of His creatures, a loving, simple, single-hearted, loyal obedience. So th...
CHAPTER 4 The Second Discourse _ 1. Divine threatening and irony (Amos 4:1) _ 2. Yet have ye not returned unto Me (Amos 4:6) 3. Prepare to meet thy God (Amos 4:12)...
ISRAEL'S DENSENESS. What is the real cause of conduct that merits such punishment? At the root of all the evil is a sham religion, a religion which in its mere formality and gross corruption has degen...
CLEANNESS OF TEETH. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for famine. YET HAVE YE NOT. &c. Note the Structure above, showing the Figure fo Speech _Amoeboeon_ (App-6). Compare Isaiah...
The five unheeded chastisements which have passed over Israel. The description of each ends with the pathetic refrain, indicating its failure to produce the desired effect, "Yet have ye not returned u...
Famine. _And I also_ i.e. And I on my part [153] in return for your zeal in the observance of a merely external formalism. [153] For this use of _also_comp. Genesis 20:6; Judges 2:3; Jdg 2:21; 2 Sam...
Here the people at large are addressed by the prophet, perhaps at some festal religious gathering....
_YOU HAVE NOT RETURNED TO GOD -- AMOS 4:6-11:_ Five times the Lord described efforts He had made to rescue Israel from sin. But each time He said, "Yet you did not return to me," or "still you rejecte...
AND I ALSO HAVE GIVEN— _For this cause have I given,_ &c. "The famine which I have sent upon the cities and territories of Israel, has not brought you to a sense of your sins, or any sincere purposes...
REASON CALLS FOR REPENTANCECHASTENING IN THE PAST SHOULD MAKE THEM THINK TEXT: Amos 4:6-11 6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places; y...
And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. I ALSO HAVE GIVEN YOU. Yahweh details His seve...
THE SECOND ADDRESS 1-3. The heartless luxury of the rich women. 4, 5. The elaborate sacrifices and pilgrimages. 6-12. The failure of God's chastisements to produce amendment. 1. These pampered wome...
THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 4 THE WOMEN WHO LOVE LUXURY V1 Listen to this, you cows of Bashan, who live on the mountains of Samaria. You hurt poor...
CLEANNESS OF TEETH is, by the poetic parallelism, identified with the want of bread, the former phrase being a graphic representation of one of the ghastly aspects of famine; clean, sharp, prominent t...
וְ גַם ־אֲנִי֩ נָתַ֨תִּי לָכֶ֜ם נִקְיֹ֤ון שִׁ
1. FOR WORSHIP, CHASTISEMENT Amos 4:4 In chapter 2 Amos contrasted the popular conception of religion as worship with God's-conception of it as history. He placed a picture of the sanctuary, hot with...
THE FALSE PEACE OF RITUAL Amos 4:4 THE next four groups of oracles- Amos 4:4; Amos 5:1; Amos 5:6.-treat of many different details, and each of them has its own emphas
CALAMITIES ARE GOD'S WARNINGS Amos 4:1-11 Speaking after the imagery of his vocation, Amos the herdsman compares the rich and powerful of Samaria, who were living in luxury and wantonness, to the kin...
The second discourse consists of Jehovah's summons to the people. It commences with a severe and terrible indictment of the women. He addressed them as "Ye kine of Bashan," which reveals the degradati...
And I also have given you (h) cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. (h) That is, lack of bread and meat....
_Dulness, ( stuporem) as when the teeth have bitten at a stone (Haydock) and are edged, Jeremias xxxi. 29. Septuagint, "gnashing." Hebrew, "cleanness," through want of food. Eliseus foretold a famine...
Here we have an account of the Lord's sore judgments upon Israel; by famine, by withholding the fruits of the earth, and by marking his judgments in a distinguishing manner, causing it to rain upon on...
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...
_But I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your borders; and ye turned not to me, saith Jehovah. _God here expostulates with the people on account of their incurab...
Chapter 4 presents the oppression of the poor, and the worship which the children of Israel rendered at will in the places they had chosen. God also would act as He saw fit. He had indeed already done...
AND I ALSO HAVE GIVEN YOU CLEANNESS OF TEETH IN ALL YOUR CITIES,.... Meaning a famine, having no food to foul them with, or to stick in them. This was not the famine in Samaria, 2 Kings 6:25; for that...
And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. Ver. 6. _And I have also given you cleanness o...
_And I also have given you_ Or, for this cause I have given you, _cleanness of teeth_ An expression signifying a scarcity of food, or a famine. The famine which we read of 2 Kings 8:1, seems to be tha...
And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, namely, because they had nothing to eat, AND WANT OF BREAD IN ALL YOUR PLACES, by famines sent at various times; YET HAVE YE NOT RETURN...
VARIOUS PUNISHMENTS LEADING UP TO THE LAST JUDGMENT...
6-13 See the folly of carnal hearts; they wander from one creature to another, seeking for something to satisfy, and labour for that which satisfies not; yet, after all, they will not incline their e...
AND I, the Lord, who gave many blessings to win you to repentance, hath also tried what might be done by judgments. CLEANNESS OF TEETH: this is a description of famine by one effect of it; where meat...
Amos 4:6 gave H5414 (H8804) cleanness H5356 teeth H8127 cities H5892 lack H2640 bread H3899 places H4725 returned...
TWO INDICTMENTS OF THE PEOPLE WHICH WILL RESULT IN A SERIES OF CHASTISEMENTS (AMOS 4:1). A new oracle now begins with the words ‘hear this word ---' (compare Amos 3:1; Amos 5:1) and consists of indict...
YHWH FIVE TIMES EXPRESSES HIS CONCERN THAT IN SPITE OF HIS JUDGMENTS ISRAEL HAVE NOT RETURNED TO HIM (AMOS 4:6). Having made clear His indictment of the women and men of Israel, both because of social...
CONTENTS: Threatening against the oppressors in Israel. Israel reminded of God's chastening in the past. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: God designs all His providential rebukes to influence men to tur...
Amos 4:1. _Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan._ The strong bulls of Bashan are celebrated in scripture. Psalms 22:13. _Vaccæ pingues,_ fat cows, haughty women, abandoned to luxurious ease, and who, equ...
_And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities._ AFFLICTIONS PROVIDENTIAL There is a material difference between what may be called permissive and active providences; and between su...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 4:1 This second oracle (see note on 2:6–6:14) is composed of three parts. In Amos 4:1, Amos expands somewhat on the points made in...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 4:6 The people had CLEANNESS OF TEETH because they had no food to cling to their teeth! YET YOU DID NOT RETURN TO ME. Even though God had sent various natural and social disasters, t...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 4:6. Teeth] Famine, as threatened in the law (Deuteronomy 28:48; Deuteronomy 28:57; cf. 2 Kings 8:1)....
EXPOSITION AMOS 4:1 _§ 2. Second address. The prophet reproves the voluptuous women of Samaria, and fortells their captivity _(Amos 4:1);_ with bitter irony he describes the people's devotion to idol...
Then the Lord says, Hear this word, ye cows of Bashan (Amos 4:1), They worshiped the calf so God calls them a bunch of cows. But because they worshiped the calf, He speaks disdainfully concerning th...
1 Kings 17:1; 1 Kings 18:2; 2 Chronicles 28:22; 2 Kings 4:38;...