Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Amos 5:3
By a thousand — That sent out one thousand soldiers. An hundred — Shall lose nine parts of them.
By a thousand — That sent out one thousand soldiers. An hundred — Shall lose nine parts of them.
Verse Amos 5:3. _THE CITY THAT WENT OUT BY A THOUSAND_] The city that could easily have furnished, on any emergency, a _thousand_ fighting men, can now produce scarcely one _hundred_-_one_ in _ten_ of...
THE CITY THAT WENT OUT BY A THOUSAND - (that is, probably that sent out a thousand fighting men, as the word “went out” is often used for, “went out” to fight,) “shall have” literally, “shall retain,...
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 LORD GOD. Hebrew. _Adonai Jehovah_. App-4. WENT OUT. goeth out [to war]. BY. THOUSAND. a thousand strong. Ref to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:30). App-92. BY AN HUNDRED. a hundred strong. TO. [b...
The justification of the mournful anticipation of Amos 5:2: Jehovah has declared that the military strength of the nation will be reduced, by defeat or other causes, to one tenth of what it now is....
_SEEK HIM THAT MADE THE STARS -- AMOS 5:1-9:_ Amos brought a mournful message from God to the house of Israel. He called upon them to listen to God's word. God is grieved over their wrongs and his des...
THE CITY THAT WENT OUT BY A THOUSAND— "The city which was able to furnish out a thousand men for war, shall have only a hundred of them left. Only one in ten of them shall escape the sword, and other...
REVELATION CALLS FOR REPENTANCEGOD'S WORD AGAINST ISRAEL TEXT: Amos 5:1-5 1 Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel. 2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she...
For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel. THE CITY THAT WENT OUT BY...
5:3 forth (a-11) i.e. that contributed a thousand men for war. cf. Judges 11:3 and Note....
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...
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...
SHALL LEAVE AN HUNDRED. — _i.e._, shall have an hundred only as a remnant of the thousand who went forth to war. The great cities were to be decimated in the coming struggle with Assyria....
כִּ֣י כֹ֤ה אָמַר֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה הָ עִ֛יר
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...
For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out [by] a thousand shall leave (b) an hundred, and that which went forth [by] an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel. (b) Meaning, that th...
_City, before (Calmet) or after the captivity. It required a long time to fill the cities as they had been. (Haydock) --- When the Assyrians invaded the country, it was greatly reduced. (Calmet)_...
We have here some sweet tokens that the Lord is coming forth in mercy as well as judgment. When the Lord laments over his people, this is a sign of grace. And I beg the Reader to remark with me, that...
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 now expresses more clearly what he had before said, — that the kingdom would perish and yet so that the Lord would preserve some remnants. Then as to the body of the people, Israel had fal...
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...
FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD,.... This is a reason why there were none to raise her up: since THE CITY THAT WENT OUT [BY] A THOUSAND SHALL LEAVE AN HUNDRED; that is, the city in which there were a tho...
For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out [by] a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth [by] an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel. Ver. 3. _The city that w...
_Hear ye_, &c. It is justly observed by Grotius, that this verse would be translated more according to the Hebrew thus; _Hear ye this word, even a lamentation, which I take up over you_ It alludes to...
ISRAEL'S ONLY SAFETY IN SEEKING THE LORD...
For thus saith the Lord God, The city that went out by a thousand, sending so many soldiers into war, SHALL LEAVE AN HUNDRED, the rest being destroyed by war and pestilence, AND THAT WHICH WENT FORTH...
1-6 The convincing, awakening word must be heard and heeded, as well as words of comfort and peace; for whether we hear or forbear, the word of God shall take effect. The Lord still proclaims mercy t...
THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD: this solemnly attesteth the certainty of the thing. THE CITY THAT WENT OUT BY A THOUSAND, that sent out one thousand soldiers as the quota they were assessed at to help agains...
Amos 5:3 says H559 (H8804) Lord H136 GOD H3069 city H5892 out H3318 (H8802) thousand H505 hundred...
OPENING LAMENTATION. AMOS PRONOUNCES A FUNERAL DIRGE OVER ISRAEL (AMOS 5:1). Amos now looks ahead into the future and proclaims a funeral dirge over Israel because her hope has gone (unless she repen...
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...
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...
_Hear ye this word which I take up against you._ THE END OF CARNAL SECURITY Such words as these must have fallen like a thunderbolt into the midst of the corrupt and careless inhabitants of Samaria...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 5:1 Although they face imminent destruction, God still pleads with his people to return to him. ⇐ ⇔
CRITICAL NOTES.] THIS WORD] A mournful song (2 Samuel 1:17). TAKE UP] Lit. lift up as if to cast down upon them. AMOS 5:2. VIRGIN] The Israelite state unsubdued by foreigners. FALLEN] Violent death (2...
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...
Deuteronomy 28:62; Deuteronomy 4:27; Ezekiel 12:16; Isaiah 1:9;...