Verse Amos 1:4. _BEN-HADAD._] He was son and successor of Hazael. See the cruelties which they exercised upon the Israelites, 2 Kings 10:32; 2 Kings 13:7, c., and see especially...
AND I WILL SEND A FIRE ON THE HOUSE OF HAZAEL - The fire is probably at once material fire, whereby cities are burned in war, since he adds, “it shall devour the palaces of Benhadad,” and also stands...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED AGAINST THE NATIONS, JUDAH, AND ISRAEL CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The introduction (Amos 1:1) _ 2. Damascus (Amos 1:3) 3. Philistia (Amos 1:6) 4. Tyre ...
DAMASCUS. It is Yahweh who speaks by the mouth of the prophets. The mention of Damascus, the capital of the Aramaean or Syrian kingdom, would at once arrest attention, for until recently Israel had be...
I WILL SEND. FIRE. Compare Amos 1:7; Amos 1:10; Amos 1:12; Amos 2:2; Amos 2:5. Refer to...
The punishment....
Amos 1:3 TO AMOS 2:5. The sins of Israel's neighbours 3 5. DAMASCUS. The first denunciation lights upon the Syrian kingdom of Damascus, the best-organized and most formidable of Israel's neighbours, w...
_But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael_, AND IT _shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad_ The same refrain (only the names being varied), Amos 1:7_; Amos 1:10; Amos 1:12_,...
_TRANSGRESSIONS OF DEMACUS -- AMOS 1:1-5:_ Amos was not a professional prophet. He said, "I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit.” (Amo...
PUNISHMENT PROMISED, THE HEATHEN NATIONSDAMASCUS TEXT: Amos 1:1-5 1. The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and...
But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Ben-ha'dad. But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad. A black...
THE SINS OF ISRAEL'S NEIGHBOURS AND THE PUNISHMENTS WHICH SHOULD FOLLOW 1. We may paraphrase the main part of the sentence thus: 'The words of Amos, describing what he saw in prophetic vision.' HERDM...
THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ ABOUT THIS BOOK WHEN AMOS LIVED Amos came from Tekoa, about 12 miles south of Jerusalem. He was a *shepherd and he looked after...
I WILL SEND A FIRE... — Compare Jeremiah 49:27, where this language is repeated at a time when punishment had fallen for a while on Damascus, and she had become, as Isaiah predicted, “a ruinous heap”...
וְ שִׁלַּ֥חְתִּי אֵ֖שׁ בְּ בֵ֣ית חֲזָאֵ֑ל וְ
ATROCITIES AND ATROCITIES Amos 1:3 - Amos 2:1 LIKE all the prophets of Israel, Amos receives oracles for foreign nations. Unlike them, however, he arranges these oracles not after, but before, his in...
OUTSIDE NATIONS SHALL SUFFER JUDGMENT Amos 1:1-10 Amos opens his prophecies with predictions against neighboring peoples, that Israel may be led to appreciate her guilt and to bear the approach of Go...
The second verse of this first chapter gives the key to the book. Jehovah declared Himself in judgment. Beginning at the point farthest from Israel, the prophet delivered his messages to the nations a...
But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the (g) palaces of Benhadad. (g) The antiquity of their buildings will not avoid my judgments. See Jeremiah 49:27...
The Lord begins with Damascus, one of the most ancient enemies of Israel when in Canaan. The three or four transgressions means many and for every one of which the Lord will account with them, and a d...
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 the Prophet subjoins, _I will send fire unto the house of Hazael, which will devour the palaces of Ben-hadad. _The Prophet speaks still of the kingdom of Syria; for we know that both Ben-hadad and...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 AND 2. In the outset Jehovah, proclaiming His own rights from the place of His own throne, roars from Zion and utters His voice from Jerusalem. Afterwards,...
BUT I WILL SEND A FIRE INTO THE HOUSE OF HAZAEL,.... For so doing; into his family, his sons' sons, one of whom perhaps was Rezin, that Tiglathpileser king of Assyria slew, as Aben Ezra observes. This...
But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad. Ver. 4. _But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael_] Sin doth as naturally draw judgments to it as t...
_But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael_ God's judgments are often compared to fire. But perhaps the expression may here signify, that the fine palaces of Hazael, and his son and successor Be...
but I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, the cruel king of Syria, WHICH SHALL DEVOUR THE PALACES OF BENHADAD, the son of Hazael, 2 Kings 13:8, so that both would suffer the Lord's punishment....
AGAINST DAMASCUS AND GAZA...
I the Lord, avenger of mine oppressed Israel, Jehovah, as AMOS 1:3. A FIRE; either literally understood, or figuratively, famine, pestilence, wars foreign or intestine, effects of God's great but just...
Amos 1:4 send H7971 (H8765) fire H784 house H1004 Hazael H2371 devour H398 (H8804) palaces H759 Ben-Hadad...
SEVEN JUDGMENTS AGAINST THE NEIGHBOURING NATIONS, INCLUDING JUDAH (AMOS 1:3 TO AMOS 2:5). The announcing of YHWH's judgments on seven nations (including Judah) can be looked at in two ways. First it w...
1). YHWH'S JUDGMENT ON DAMASCUS (AMOS 1:3). YHWH's judgment on Damascus, a city (representing Aram) which had proved through the years to be Israel's most dangerous enemy, would be because of their co...
CONTENTS: Judgments pronounced upon surrounding peoples Syria, Tyre, Edom, Ammon. CHARACTERS: God, Amos, Uzziah, Jeroboam, Hazael, Benhadad. CONCLUSION: The God of Israel is the God of all the earth...
Amos 1:1. _The words of Amos,_ written with his own hand. He does not name his parents, because they were plain country people. He was himself _among the herdmen of Tekoa,_ a small city twelve miles s...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 1:3. Three] The numbers serve to denote the multiplicity of sins, “ungodliness in its worst form” [_Luther_]. TURN] Reverse, to make a thing go back, to withdraw it (Numbers 23:...
EXPOSITION VERSE 1-CH. 2:16 PART I. APPROACHING JUDGMENT. VERSE 1-CH. 2:3 _§ 1. The nations bordering on the Holy Land are solemnly summoned to judgment._ AMOS 1:1, AMOS 1:2 Heading o
Let's turn now to the book of Amos. In the first verse of Amos he introduces himself. These are the words of Amos, who was among the herdmen [or a shepherd] at Tekoa (Amos 1:1), Now Tekoa is a little...
1 Kings 19:15; 1 Kings 20:1; 2 Chronicles 16:2; 2 Kings 13:25;...
Ben — hadad — Ben — hadad was to the Syrian kings a common name, as Pharaoh to the Egyptian kings, and Caesar to the Roman emperors....