Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Amos 6:13
Who rejoice — In your victories, alliances, and idols. Have we not — We have raised ourselves to greatness by our wisdom and courage.
Who rejoice — In your victories, alliances, and idols. Have we not — We have raised ourselves to greatness by our wisdom and courage.
Verse Amos 6:13. _YE WHICH REJOICE IN A THING OF NAUGHT_] In your idols: for an idol is nothing in the world. _HAVE WE NOT TAKEN TO US HORNS_] We have arrived to power and dignity by our strength. _H...
WHO REJOICE - (Literally, “the rejoicers!” Amos, as is his wont, speaks of them with contempt and wonder at their folly, “the rejoicers!” much as we say, the cowards! the renegades!) “in a thing of no...
CHAPTER 6 The Fourth Discourse _ 1. Woe to them that are at ease in Zion (Amos 6:1) _ 2. The punishment announced (Amos 6:7) Amos 6:1. This woe concerns the great men, the chiefs of the nation, who...
THE MISERABLE FATE OF THESE RULERS. Yahweh solemnly declares (Amos 6:8) that the pride (_mg.)_ of Jacob, the vainglory which has displaced true glory, has become an abomination to Him. There follows a...
HORNS =. powers. "Horns" put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for the power put forth by them....
Ye _which rejoice in a thing of nought_ Lit. in a _no-thing_, a _non-entity_, what has no substantial existence, and is destined to pass away when the hour of trial comes, i.e. their boasted, but unre...
_GOD PROMISED PUNISHMENT AGAINST ISRAEL -- AMOS 6:11-14:_ God had commanded that complete destruction come upon both the land and the people. That is why we can understand that none would be left. God...
YE WHICH REJOICE IN A THING OF NOUGHT— That is, _in idols. Have we not taken to us horns?_ &c. That is to say, "Rendered ourselves strong and powerful? Elevated ourselves in glory and authority?...
RIGHTEOUSNESS DEMANDS REPENTANCEFALSE PRIDE TURNS RIGHTEOUSNESS TO BITTERNESS TEXT: Amos 6:9-14 9 And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die. 10 And when...
Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength? YE WHICH REJOICE IN A THING OF NOUGHT - i:e., in your vain power, decaying empire, and fleeting...
6:13 power (k-18) Lit. 'horns.'...
THE FOURTH ADDRESS 1-3. False security of Judah and Israel. 4-6. Carelessness and luxury. 7-11. Captivity, siege, death, ruin. 12, 13. Preposterous errors. 14. The coming of the avenger. 1, 2. Re...
THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 6 GOD WILL CAUSE THE GOOD TIMES IN ISRAEL TO END V1 Oh, it will be very bad for you people in *Zion. You do not think t...
A THING OF NOUGHT refers to the calf-worship, the idol that Israel is glorying and trusting in, the idolatrous travesty of the Eternal that they call “the excellency of Jacob.” (Comp. Amos 6:8, and Am...
הַ שְּׂמֵחִ֖ים לְ לֹ֣א דָבָ֑ר הָ אֹ֣מְרִ֔ים ה
3. "AT EASE IN ZION" Amos 6:1 The evil of the national worship was the false political confidence which it engendered. Leaving the ritual alone, Amos now proceeds to assault this confidence. We are t...
“WOE TO THEM THAT ARE AT EASE IN ZION!” Amos 6:1-14 Zion is included with Samaria in this prophecy and the nobles are especially condemned for their drunkenness, gluttony, and insolence. The prophet...
From the formalists the prophet turned toward those who had lost all sense of the spiritual and the moral, and were indifferent, those were ''at ease in Zion," and "secure upon the mountains of Samari...
Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us (p) horns by our own strength? (p) That is, power and glory....
_Buffles, which cannot be tamed. Hebrew, "with oxen." We must understand, on rocks. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "Shall they be silent when they are with females?" (Haydock) --- To turn the works of justi...
Probably the captivity here spoken of, in the first sense, had a reference to the Babylonish captivity. But I humbly conceive it had respect to another of an higher nature in a spiritual sense. But, R...
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...
This verse will seem better connected with the last, if we bear in mind the view to which I have referred: for the Prophet inveighs again against the careless contempt with which the Israelites were f...
Chapter 6 dwells upon the false confidence that deceived the heads of Israel. A similar judgment to that of Calneh and Hamath might fall upon Israel. Their chief men gave themselves up to luxury, as t...
YE WHICH REJOICE IN A THING OF NOUGHT,.... In their wealth and riches, which are things that are not, because of the uncertainty of them; and, in comparison of true riches, have no solidity and substa...
Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength? Ver. 13. _Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought_] In the creature, saith a Lapide, which is a mere...
_Ye which rejoice in a thing of naught_ Ye who place confidence in your strength, which will avail you nothing when God withdraws his blessing from you; _which say, Have we not taken to us horns by ou...
ye which rejoice in a thing of naught, depending upon something which does not exist, except in their own imagination, WHICH SAY, HAVE WE NOT TAKEN TO US HORNS BY OUR OWN STRENGTH? trusting in the str...
THE DESTRUCTION OF THE KINGDOM FORETOLD...
8-14 How dreadful, how miserable, is the case of those whose eternal ruin the Lord himself has sworn; for he can execute his purpose, and none can alter it! Those hearts are wretchedly hardened that...
YE WHICH REJOICE, glorying with a joy and satisfaction, with hope and confidence, IN A THING OF NOUGHT; in your victories, alliances, fortifications, and idols, all which draw you away from God, and f...
Amos 6:13 rejoice H8056 Debar H1697 H3808 say H559 (H8802) taken H3947 (H8804) Karnaim H7161 strength...
THE SECOND WOE ON THOSE WHO COMPLACENTLY RELAXED, DEPENDING ON YHWH'S PROTECTION, WHILE THEY ALSO TOTALLY IGNORED HIS REQUIREMENTS (AMOS 6:1). While Amos's mission was to Israel he never overlooked th...
CONTENTS: Woe pronounced upon those at ease in sin abandoned by God. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Many are puffed up and rocked to sleep in carnal security by the position they occupy in the...
Amos 6:1. _The mountain of Samaria._ This city was built on a hill, like Zion, to make it impregnable. See note on Isaiah 28:1. Amos 6:2. _Calneh,_ or Ctesiphon. It was situate almost opposite Seleuci...
_Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?_ HUMAN JOY IN THE UNSUBSTANTIAL “Horns” are signs and symbols of power; here they stand for the m...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 6:13 LO-DEBAR and KARNAIM were two cities on the east side of the Jordan. Both cities were in areas that were in constant dispute with Syria. It is likely that Israel had succeeded i...
CRITICAL NOTES.] AMOS 6:12.] As horses and oxen are useless on a rock, so ye are incapable of fulfilling justice [_Grotius_]. The comparison indicates the folly of expecting prosperity while committi...
EXPOSITION AMOS 6:1 With a second woe the prophet denounces the chiefs of the whole nation, who were quite satisfied with the present state of things, and, revelling in luxury, feared no coming judg...
Shall we turn in our Bibles to Amos chapter 6. The Northern Kingdom of Israel has become apostate. They are living in luxury, carelessness, indifference towards God, when suddenly their peace is distu...
1 Samuel 4:5; 2 Chronicles 28:6; 2 Kings 13:25; 2 Kings 14:12;...