Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Amos 7:9
The high places — The temples on high mountains built to idols. Of Isaac — The seed of Isaac.
The high places — The temples on high mountains built to idols. Of Isaac — The seed of Isaac.
Verse Amos 7:9. _AND THE HIGH PLACES OF ISAAC SHALL BE DESOLATE_] Their total destruction is at hand. The _high place of Isaac_ was _Beer-sheba_, where Isaac had built an altar to the Lord, Genesis 2...
THE HIGH PLACES OF ISAAC - He probably calls the ten tribes by the name of Isaac, as well as of Israel, in order to contrast their deeds with the blameless, gentle piety of Isaac, as well as the much-...
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...
THE VISION OF THE WALL. The third vision is more difficult. The prophet saw (Amos 7:7) and behold, Yahweh stood by a wall of -'_ anak_, and in His hand -'_ anak._ -'_ Anak_ is usually translated plumm...
HIGH PLACES. Used for idolatrous altars, &c. ISAAC... ISRAEL. Used only by Amos in this sense. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for the nation of Israel. Compare Pe. Psalms 105:...
The third vision. The plumb-line. Here Amos does not see the calamity itself, but only the symbol that it is decreed (cf. the almond-tree, and the seething pot, in Jeremiah 1:11; Jeremiah 1:13)....
_high places_ local sanctuaries, usually situated on eminences (1 Kings 14:23; 2 Kings 17:10 f.), a little outside the towns to which they belonged (cf. 1 Samuel 9:12;...
_THE VISION OF THE PLUMB LINE -- AMOS 7:7-9:_ The third vision was that of the Lord Himself standing on a wall with a plumb line in His hand. The plumb line had been used to measure the straightness o...
THE HIGH-PLACES OF ISAAC— That is, _of Beer-sheba,_ where Isaac dwelt and built an altar to the Lord. See Genesis 26:25....
PROPHECIES PRESENTED, Chapter S 7-9 CAUSES OF JUDGMENT PROPHESIEDNOT ALIGNED WITH GOD'S STANDARD TEXT: Amos 7:1-9 1 Thus the Lord, Jehovah showed me: and, behold, he formed locusts in the beginning...
And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword. AND THE HIGH PLACES - dedicated to...
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 HIGH PLACES OF ISAAC] i.e. Beersheba (Amos 5:5), which was especially associated with Isaac (Genesis 27:23; Genesis 28:10). 10, 11. Amaziah, being a royal official, intervenes as soon as the king'...
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....
HIGH PLACES OF ISAAC. — The name Isaac is here spelt somewhat differently in the Hebrew from the form we have in Genesis. The LXX. misunderstand the word, and render “altars of _laughter_,” in accorda...
וְ נָשַׁ֨מּוּ֙ בָּמֹ֣ות יִשְׂחָ֔ק וּ מִקְדְּשֵׁ֥י...
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...
_Idol. Hebrew, "Isaac." (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "laughter." (Haydock) --- Isaac had resided for some time at Bersabee, which was place frequented by idolaters, chap. v. 5., and viii. 14. Josias overt...
We have here a third sermon of the Prophet in figure, and to the same amount as the former. The similitude of measuring is adopted, and probably it was here meant to shew the time limited thereby for...
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...
It now follows, _And destroyed shall be the high places of Isaac, and overthrown shall be the sanctuaries _(some render _palaces) of Israel; and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the s...
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...
AND THE HIGH PLACES OF ISAAC SHALL BE DESOLATE,.... Such as the ten tribes of Israel, who descended from Isaac, built at Beersheba, in imitation of Isaac, and pleading his example; who worshipped ther...
And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword. Ver. 9. _And the high places of Isaac...
_The Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumb-line_ A wall strongly and beautifully built. God's judgments are sometimes represented in Scripture by a line and a plummet, to denote that they are measure...
and the high places of Isaac, in this case used of the northern kingdom, SHALL BE DESOLATE, AND THE SANCTUARIES OF ISRAEL, the various places devoted to idolatrous purposes, SHALL BE LAID WASTE; AND I...
THE VISIONS OF THE GRASSHOPPERS, OF THE FIRE, AND OF THE PLUMB-LINE....
1-9 God bears long, but he will not bear always with a provoking people. The remembrance of the mercies we formerly received, like the produce of the earth of the former growth, should make us submis...
THE HIGH PLACES; the temples on high mountains built to idols, or for the worship of God, though he forbade them. Of Isaac: the father is here named, but his children are intended, all the seed of Isa...
Amos 7:9 places H1116 Isaac H3446 desolate H8074 (H8738) sanctuaries H4720 Israel H3478 waste H2717 (H8799) rise...
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...
THE FOUR VISIONS (AMOS 7:1 TO AMOS 8:14). In a similar way to the seven judgments in Amos 1:2 to Amos 2:5, followed by the expanded judgment on Israel, which all initially follo
RAISE As prophesied and fulfilled, (2 Kings 15:10)....
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—NOTE ON AMOS 7:1 Visions of Judgment. In the final section of the book, Amos turns from speech to sight. He tells of visions he has received from God that confirm the nation’s situation. The firs...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 7:7 The third picture that God SHOWED Amos was of a PLUMB LINE held against a WALL. A plumb line is a string with a weight fastened to its end. When the string is placed b
CRITICAL NOTES.] SHOWED] three visions in this ch. LOCUSTS (Amos 7:1) the first; “all inward tuitions produced by the Spirit of God, which set forth the primitive judgments of God” [_Keil_]. BEGIN.] T...
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 15:8; Amos 3:14; Amos 5:5; Amos 8:14; Genesis 26:23;...