Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Amos 7:17
In a polluted land — Among the Heathen. Israel — The ten tribes.
In a polluted land — Among the Heathen. Israel — The ten tribes.
Verse Amos 7:17. _THY WIFE SHALL BE A HARLOT_] As this was _the word of_ _the Lord_, so it was fulfilled; but as we have no farther account of this idolatrous priest, so we cannot tell in what circums...
THY WIFE SHALL BE A HARLOT - These were, and still are, among the horrors of war. His own sentence comes last, when he had seen the rest, unable to hinder it. Against his and her own will, she should...
III. THE FIVE VISIONS OF THE PROPHET CHAPTER 7 Three Visions and the Opposition Against Amos _ 1. The vision of locusts (Amos 7:1) _ 2. The vision concerning the fire (Amos 7:4) 3. The vision of...
EFFECT OF AMOS-' PUBLIC UTTERANCES. A historical episode is here interposed. Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, interrupts the work of Amos, charging him, by twisting his words, with conspiracy (Amos 7:10...
THUS SAITH THE LORD. See note on Amos 1:3, BE AN HARLOT: i.e. become. victim to the lust of the invader. LAND. soil. Hebrew adamah. DIVIDED, &c.:. e. partitioned. IN. POLLUTED LAND. on polluted (i...
A historical episode, intimately connected with the preceding visions, and arising out of them. In particular, Amos, in explaining the last of these visions, had spoken so unambiguously, even, in appe...
_Thy wife shall be a harlot_&c. As before (Amos 6:8), the vision of a captured city rises before him: Amaziah's wife will be treated as a harlot by the victorious conquerors (cf. Isaiah 13:16; Zechari...
Amos" retort....
Amaziah had sought to silence Amos: Amos, speaking in the name of the God who had thus called him to be His prophet, so far from modifying or withdrawing his previous utterances, reaffirms them even m...
_AMAZIAH REBUKES AMOS -- AMOS 7:10-17:_ Amaziah the priest at Bethel sent a message to King Jeroboam of Israel saying, "Amos is plotting against you in the very heart of Israel. Our nation cannot put...
IN A POLLUTED LAND— By a _polluted land_ is meant a heathen country far from the land of Israel; for the Hebrews considered every other country as polluted in comparison with theirs. History has not p...
CAUSES OF JUDGMENT PROPHESIEDCORRUPT RELIGIOUS LEADERS TEXT: Amos 7:10-17 10 Then Amaziah the priest of Beth-el sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the mids...
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted...
AN HARLOT] violated by the victorious soldiers. The greatest disaster that can befall an Eastern is to leave no son to continue his name. The ample domain of the wealthy priest would be divided into s...
THREE VISIONS AND AN INTERRUPTION 1-9. The visions. 10-17. The interruption. There are two senses in which the word 'Vision' may be used of one of the forms of Hebrew prophecy. In the first sense a...
THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 7 V1 This is what the *Lord the Ruler showed me. He was preparing a large number of *locusts....
HARLOT. — This doom on Amaziah’s wife is to be regarded as the hideous consequence of war. She shall be ravished. By the polluted land we are to understand Assyria, or the land of exile; for food eate...
לָכֵ֞ן כֹּה ־אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה אִשְׁתְּךָ֞ בָּ †...
5. THE PROPHET AND HIS MINISTRY Amos 7:1 - Amos 8:1 We have seen the preparation of the Man for the Word; we have sought to trace to its source the Word which came to the Man. It now remains for us...
THE HERDSMAN'S MESSAGE Amos 7:1-17 The _king's mowings_ were the earliest yield of the grasslands, which were exacted by him. Our King also has His mowings, when He takes to Himself our dearest and...
In this division the prophet gave a fivefold vision of judgment, introduced in the first four cases by the words, "The Lord God showed me." The last vision was of Jehovah Himself. The vision of the lo...
Therefore thus saith the LORD; (i) Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a pollu...
Play. Symmachus has better, "shall be treated as a harlot." A "husband would rather hear that his wife had been slain than defiled." (St. Jerome) --- Line, and divided among strangers. --- Land, out o...
Blessed be the Lord for making his servants faithful. Who but must admire the humbleness and modesty of Amos, in his account of his call to the ministry! And who but must be delighted with the firmnes...
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...
Now follows a denunciation, _Therefore thus saith Jehovah _This לכן, _lacen_, therefore, shows that Amaziah suffered punishment, not only because he had corrupted God’s worship, because he had deceive...
God had long waited patiently. More than once He had been on the point of giving Israel up to judgment. The intercession of the prophet, that is to say, of the Spirit of Christ which wrought in the pr...
THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD,.... For withstanding the prophet of the Lord, and forbidding him to speak in his name against the idolatry of Israel, as well as for his own idolatry: THY WIFE SHALL BE...
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted...
_Now, hear thou the word of the Lord_ Who hath sent me, and whom thou contradictest; from him I have a message to thee also, which much concerns thee. _Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel_ Thou u...
Therefore, thus saith the Lord, Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, dishonored by the enemies at the storming of the city, AND THY SONS AND THY DAUGHTERS SHALL FALL BY THE SWORD, in the slaughter...
THE PROPHET AT BETHEL...
10-17 It is no new thing for the accusers of the brethren, to misrepresent them as enemies to the king and kingdom, as traitors to their prince, and troublers of the land, when they are the best frie...
THEREFORE; because thou hast so directly and strenuously opposed the Lord. THY WIFE SHALL BE A HARLOT, which to a man of sense is a great affliction. A HARLOT; a common whore. In the city; a notorious...
Amos 7:17 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 wife H802 harlot H2181 (H8799) city H5892 sons H1121 daughters...
THE THIRD VISION. THE VISION OF THE PLUMB-LINE AND THE RESULTING RESPONSE (AMOS 7:7). In this third vision YHWH carried some kind of measuring device as He stood beside a wall, presumably with the pur...
CONTENTS: Threatening judgments. The prophet's intercession no longer to prevail. Amos charged before the king and his answer. CHARACTERS: God, Amos, Amaziah, Jeroboam. CONCLUSION: God's patience, wh...
Amos 7:1. _He formed grasshoppers,_ which are the same as the locusts. _After the king's mowings._ It is supposed that the first grass, or the proud corn cut with the scythe, was a tribute to the king...
_Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel._ THE CONVENTIONAL AND THE GENUINE PRIESTS OF A PEOPLE I. The conventional priest. Amaziah was chief priest of the royal sanctua...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 7:10 If the plumb line according to which Israel was constructed was the Law, then the priesthood should have held Israel accountable to it (Deuteronomy 33:10;...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 7:17 All the honor that Amaziah prized so highly would be taken from him. These terrible punishments would happen because he rejected God’s word through Amos. ⇐...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 7:10.] The prophet opposed at Bethel on account of these predictions. CONSPIRED] Heb. _banded_, implying that others joined. There is a charge of conspiracy and sedition; insinu...
EXPOSITION VERSE 1-CH. 9:10 Part III. FIVE VISIONS, WITH EXPLANATIONS, CONTINUING AND CONFIRMING THE PREVIOUS PROPHECY. The afflictions are climactic, increasing in intensity. The first two symbolize...
Now the Lord showed unto Amos certain judgments whereby He could bring His judgment against Israel. These were shown to Amos, no doubt, in the form of a vision. And thus hath the Lord GOD showed unto...
2 Kings 17:6; Amos 7:11; Ezekiel 4:13; Hosea 4:13; Hosea 4:14;...