Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Amos 6:9
Remain — Escaping the enemies sword. Ten men — Many men, a certain number for an uncertain. They shall die — Tho' they escape a while, they shall not finally escape.
Remain — Escaping the enemies sword. Ten men — Many men, a certain number for an uncertain. They shall die — Tho' they escape a while, they shall not finally escape.
Verse Amos 6:9. _TEN MEN - THEY SHALL DIE._] ALL shall be cut off by the sword, or by captivity, or by famine....
IF THERE SHALL REMAIN TEN MEN - He probably still denounces the punishment of the rich inhabitants of the palaces, since in these only, of old, would there be found “ten men.” They died, it seems, at...
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...
REMAIN: survive after the seige. MEN. Plural of _'enosh_ App-14. DIE: by pestilence...
A house in which _ten men_were left, surviving the casualties and privations of a siege, must have been a fairly large one: no doubt, Amos has still in view the palaces of the wealthy (cf. Amos 3:15)....
The terrible consequences of the siege....
_THE LORD SWORE BY HIMSELF -- AMOS 6:8-10:_ The Lord God All-powerful promised by His own name that the wicked would be punished. Let us remember that God does exactly the thing He promises and He doe...
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...
And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die. IF THERE REMAIN TEN MEN IN ONE HOUSE ... THEY SHALL DIE - (; ). If as many as ten remain in a house (a rare cas...
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...
TEN... UNCLE. — In some large house it might be that ten are left remaining, but even these are devoured by the pestilence which hovers in the track of war. Nine have fallen victims. Fathers and broth...
וְ הָיָ֗ה אִם ־יִוָּ֨תְר֜וּ עֲשָׂרָ֧ה אֲנָשִׁ֛ים...
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...
_Die. Their numbers will not protect them from the plague._...
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...
The Prophet here amplifies the calamity, which was nigh the people; as though he had said, that God would not now take moderate vengeance on that reprobate people, for he did nothing by dealing modera...
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...
AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS,.... When the city is delivered up and taken: IF THERE REMAIN; who are not carried captive, or destroyed by the sword: TEN MEN IN ONE HOUSE; that is, many, a certain number...
And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die. Ver. 9. _And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men, &c._] That is, many, as Zec 8:23 Leviticus 26:26, be...
_If there remain ten men in one house_, &c. Those that escape the hands of the enemy shall die by the pestilence. _And a man's uncle_ (or kinsman) _shall take him up_ Some friend or relation, whose du...
And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die, that is, no matter how large the number, not one would escape....
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...
IT SHALL COME TO PASS; the thing is decreed, and shall take effect. IF THERE REMAIN, or escape the enemies sword, or the famine of Samaria, besieged three years. TEN MEN IN ONE HOUSE; many men, for it...
Amos 6:9 ten H6235 men H582 remain H3498 (H8735) one H259 house H1004 die H4191 (H8804) if -...
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...
CRITICAL NOTES.] AMOS 6:7. HEAD] Chiefs in transgression must be _first_ in the procession to captivity. BANQUET] Lit. making merry with shouts. AMOS 6:8. SWORN] “Like ch. Amos 4:2, except that it is...
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 2:33; Amos 5:3; Esther 5:11; Esther 9:10; Isaiah 14:21;...