Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Amos 6:14
Hemath — A city of Syria, bordering on Israel, north — east. The wilderness — Which is the south — west parts of Canaan. So all your country shall be destroyed.
Hemath — A city of Syria, bordering on Israel, north — east. The wilderness — Which is the south — west parts of Canaan. So all your country shall be destroyed.
Verse Amos 6:14. _I WILL RAISE UP AGAINST YOU A NATION_] The _Assyrians_ under _Pul, Tiglath-pileser_, and _Shalmaneser_, who subdued the Israelites at various times, and at last carried them away cap...
BUT - (For,) - it was a non-thing, a nonexistent thing, a phantom, whereat they rejoiced; “for behold I raise up a nation.” God is said to “raise up,” when, by His Providence or His grace, He calls fo...
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...
I WILL RAISE UP, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:49). they shall afflict you. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 3:9; Deuteronomy 26:7). FROM... UNTO: i.e. through the length and breadth of t...
_But_ FOR, justifying the low estimate of their power, expressed in Amos 6:13. _raise up_ not absolutely, as Amos 2:11 (for the Assyrians had long existed as a nation), but _against you_, i.e. as your...
_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...
I WILL RAISE UP AGAINST YOU A NATION, &C.— By this _nation,_ is meant the Assyrians. The kingdom of Judah is plainly understood in this verse, because in the time of Amos its extent was as here descri...
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...
But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness. AN...
6:14 Arabah. (a-37) Deuteronomy 1:1 and 2 Kings 14:25 ....
THE ENTERING IN OF HEMATH] the ideal northern boundary of the Holy Land (Numbers 13:21; 2 Kings 14:25): it is the great depression between the N. end of Lebanon and the Nusariyeh mountains. THE RIVER...
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...
FROM... UNTO. — The entire limits of the kingdom of Israel after the victories of Jeroboam II. were, according to 2 Kings 14:25, identical with the region which is here threatened with invasion, _i.e....
כִּ֡י הִנְנִי֩ מֵקִ֨ים עֲלֵיכֶ֜ם בֵּ֣ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל...
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...
But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of (q) Hemath unto the river of the wilderness....
_Naught: in your idols, which are nothing, (1 Corinthians viii. 4.) or in your own strength, fortifications, or allies. --- Horns: glory and power. (Calmet) --- Pa rata tollo cornua. (Horace, epod. 6....
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...
At last follows a denunciation, and this is the close of the chapter. God then after having seriously exposed the vices which prevailed among the people of Israel, again declares that vengeance of whi...
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...
BUT, BEHOLD, I WILL RAISE UP AGAINST YOU A NATION, O HOUSE OF ISRAEL, SAITH THE LORD, THE GOD OF HOSTS,.... The Assyrian nation, under its king, Shalmaneser; who invaded Israel, came up to Samaria, an...
But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness. Ver....
_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...
But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the Lord, the God of hosts, and they shall afflict you, by overthrowing and oppressing them, FROM THE ENTERING IN OF HEMATH,...
THE DESTRUCTION OF THE KINGDOM FORETOLD...
RIVER: Or, valley...
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...
BUT; notwithstanding all your boasts and carnal confidences. BEHOLD; observe and weigh well what is said. ir will raise up; awaken, call together, strengthen, succeed, and prosper in the attempt again...
Amos 6:14 up H6965 (H8688) nation H1471 house H1004 Israel H3478 Says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 God...
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...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 6:14 Amos says the little victories of v. Amos 6:13 will be nothing compared to the destruction that is to come. LEBO-HAMATH was in the far north, in the valley between
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 Kings 8:65; 2 Kings 15:29; 2 Kings 17:6; Ezekiel 47:15; Hosea 10:5