Amos 8:2
The end — Of God's patience towards Israel, the end of their ripening, they are now fully ripe, fit to be gathered. Pass by them — God had with admirable patience spared, but now he will no more pardon or spare.... [ Continue Reading ]
The end — Of God's patience towards Israel, the end of their ripening, they are now fully ripe, fit to be gathered. Pass by them — God had with admirable patience spared, but now he will no more pardon or spare.... [ Continue Reading ]
With silence — So great will be the cruelty of the enemy, that they dare not bury them, or if they do, it must be undiscerned.... [ Continue Reading ]
To fail — Either to root them out, or to enslave them.... [ Continue Reading ]
When — Ye that could wish there were nothing to interrupt your marketing, that look on solemn times of worship as burdensome, such was the first day of every month, and the weekly sabbath. Small — So the ephah being too little, the poor buyer had not his due. The shekel great — They weighed the mone... [ Continue Reading ]
That we may buy — They would have new moons and sabbaths over, that they might go to market to buy the poor. And when these poor owed but for a very little commodity, as suppose a pair of shoes, these merciless men would take the advantage against them, and make them sell themselves to pay the debt.... [ Continue Reading ]
Hath sworn — By himself. Forget — Suffer to pass unpunished.... [ Continue Reading ]
The land — The people of it. For this — This that you have done, and this that God will do. And it — The judgment, the displeasure of God, shall rise and grow like a mighty wasting flood. It — The land. Drowned — As Egypt by the overflowing of the Nile.... [ Continue Reading ]
At noon — So Israel's sun did as at noon set under the dark cloud of conspiracies and civil wars by Shallum, Menahem, Pekah, and Hosea, 'till the midnight darkness drew on by Pul, Tiglath — Pilneser, and Salmaneser. Darken — Bring a thick cloud of troubles and afflictions. In the clear day — When th... [ Continue Reading ]
Upon all loins — All sorts of persons shall put on mourning. Baldness — Shaving the head and beard was a sign of the greatest sadness. A bitter day — A bitter day, which you shall wish you had never seen, shall succeed your dark night.... [ Continue Reading ]
Shall wander — Search all places for a prophet or preacher, from the Mid — land sea to the dead sea, they shall search all corners for a prophet.... [ Continue Reading ]
They — Who sacrifice to and swear by the calves at Dan and Beth — el. By the sin — Who say the idol at Dan is the true and living God. The manner — The idol which is worshipped at Beersheba.... [ Continue Reading ]