Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Amos 5:11
Your treading — You utterly oppress the helpless. Ye take — Ye extort from the poor great quantities of wheat, on which he should live.
Your treading — You utterly oppress the helpless. Ye take — Ye extort from the poor great quantities of wheat, on which he should live.
Verse 11. _YOUR TREADING_ IS _UPON THE POOR_] You tread them under your feet; they form the road on which ye walk; and yet it was by oppressing and improverishing them that ye gained your riches. _YE...
FORASMUCH THEREFORE - (Since they rejected reproof, he pronounces the sentence of God upon them,) “as your treading is upon the poor.” This expresses more habitual trampling on the poor, than if he ha...
CHAPTER 5 The Third Discourse _ 1. The lamentation (Amos 5:1) _ 2. Seek the Lord and ye shall live (Amos 5:4) 3. The wailing (Amos 5:16) 4. The captivity announced ...
THE IMPENDING PUNISHMENT. The prophet gives his next few words the form of a dirge (_kî nah_,_ Amos 5:1_). This (Amos 5:2) is characterised by the peculiar _kî nah-metre_, consisting of three beats or...
THE POOR AN IMPOVERISHED ONE. Hebrew. _dal,_ See note on "poverty", Proverbs 6:11. BURDENS. exaction. Singular. YE HAVE BUILT, &c. Reference to Deut. (Deuteronomy 28:30; Deuteronomy
The penalty for such unjust oppression of the poor is the oppressors" own disappointment and spoliation: the houses and vineyards on which they lavished their money, and from which they expected much...
_CHOOSE GOOD INSTEAD OF EVIL -- AMOS 5:9-15 _ Life is a matter of the choices that we make. Israel chose to have fair judges and honest witnesses. Israel did not want to be reminded of her sins so she...
BURDENS OF WHEAT— Houbigant's reading is, _A pledge,_ or _interest for wheat:_ "You exact a large and exorbitant interest or price for the necessaries of life....
REVELATION CALLS FOR REPENTANCEGOD'S OMNIPOTENCE AND OMNISCIENCE TEXT: Amos 5:6-13 6 Seek Jehovah, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour and there be...
Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, b...
5:11 pleasant (c-33) Or 'excellent.'...
THE THIRD ADDRESS 1-6. A lament, a warning, and an invitation. 7, 10-20. Denunciation of injustice and oppression, with threats of pestilence and judgment. 21-27. A repudiation of their attempt to...
BURDENS OF WHEAT] RV 'exactions of wheat.' These remind us of the way in which the French nobility used to 'grind down the peasantry to the utmost farthing to extort money to spend in debauchery and r...
THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 5 GOD ENCOURAGES ISRAEL’S PEOPLE TO COME BACK TO HIM V1 People in Israel, listen to this song. ‘This funeral song is ab...
BURDENS OF WHEAT. — _i.e._, Ye take gifts of sifted corn, as a contribution to your own luxury, and which the poor man was not bound to offer, and only would offer to purchase your good will. Therefor...
לָ֠כֵן יַ֣עַן בֹּושַׁסְכֶ֞ם עַל ־דָּ֗ל וּ מַש
2. FOR WORSHIP, JUSTICE Amos 5:1 In the next of these groups of oracles Amos continues his attack on the national ritual, and now contrasts it with the service of God in public life-the relief of the...
“PREPARE TO MEET THY GOD” Amos 4:12-13; Amos 5:1-15 Worse judgments than those mentioned in the previous verses were in store but before they are inflicted, the entire nation is summoned to the divin...
The third discourse was a description of Jehovah's judgment. This opened with a lamentation for the virgin of Israel, "The virgin of Israel is fallen, she shall no more rise, she is cast down upon her...
Forasmuch therefore as your treading [is] upon the poor, and (g) ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyar...
The first verse in this paragraph is a confirmation, if it were needed, of what I advanced in my observations on the former. Seeking the Lord, implies the hope of finding him, and indeed the promise i...
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...
The Prophet here declares, that though the judges enriched themselves by plunder, yet God would not allow them to enjoy their booty, but that he would deprive them of the great wealth they had accumul...
After having deplored the ruin of Israel, He contrasts the places of their false worship with Jehovah, the Creator, and exhorts them to come unto Him and live. But Israel put off the thought of the ev...
FORASMUCH THEREFORE AS YOUR TREADING [IS] UPON THE POOR,.... This seems to be spoken to the princes, judges, and civil magistrates, as Kimchi observes; who oppressed the poor and needy, and crushed th...
_Forasmuch, therefore, as your treading is upon the poor_ It appears by this, that their acts of oppression were more than ordinarily proud and tyrannical. They were the effect of fraud executed with...
ISRAEL'S ONLY SAFETY IN SEEKING THE LORD...
Forasmuch, therefore, as your treading is upon the poor, in the oppression which was then so generally practiced, AND YE TAKE FROM HIM. BURDENS OF WHEAT, exacting such gifts by methods of violence:. Y...
PLEASANT VINEYARDS: _ Heb._ vineyards of desire...
7-17 The same almighty power can, for repenting sinners, easily turn affliction and sorrow into prosperity and joy, and as easily turn the prosperity of daring sinners into utter darkness. Evil times...
YOUR TREADING; their oppression was more than ordinarily proud and tyrannous, expressed here by treading. It was very heavy on the poor, an effect of fraud, and executed with tyrannical insolence, as...
Amos 5:11 Therefore H3282 down H1318 (H8780) poor H1800 take H3947 (H8799) grain H1250 taxes H4864 built...
THE SECOND INDICTMENT ON ISRAEL AMOS 5:10). This second indictment is fuller than the first (Amos 5:7), and is written in chiastic form. Thus: a It opens with reference to those who reprove or speak...
A LAMENTATION OVER ISRAEL (AMOS 5:1). While speaking powerfully Amos had no joy in what was to happen to Israel, and having pronounced judgment on them, he now laments what must necessarily be their e...
Amos 5:4. _For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:_ And that it just the message of God to professing Christians now: «Seek ye me.» Get away from your mere ce...
CONTENTS: God's lamentation over Israel and captivity foretold. The day of the Lord. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: If men will not take a right course to obtain the favor of God, God will take an eff...
Amos 5:2. _The virgin of Israel is fallen._ Babylon, which had never been stormed by a besieging army, is called a virgin. Isaiah 47:1. Thus Israel, whose kingdom had never yet been wholly subdued, is...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 5:1 Although they face imminent destruction, God still pleads with his people to return to him. ⇐ ⇔
CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 5:7.] God in his omnipotence in contrast with the ungodly people, indicating that he who can destroy should be feared. WORMWOOD] Justice embittered, corrupted, and made hateful...
EXPOSITION VERSE 1-CH. 6:14 § 8. _Third address_:_ the prophet utters a lamentation over the fall of Israel_. (Amos 6:1.) He calls her to repentance, while he shows wherein she has declined from the...
Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation (Amos 5:1), Weeping over the house of Israel now. The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her l...
Amos 4:1; Deuteronomy 28:30; Deuteronomy 28:38; Deuteronomy 28:39;...