Verse Amos 3:14. _IN THE DAY THAT I SHALL VISIT_] When Josiah made a reformation in the land he destroyed _idolatry_, pulled down the temples and altars that had been consecrated to idol worship, and...
IN THE DAY THAT I SHALL VISIT THE TRANSGRESSION OF ISRAEL UPON, HIM, I WILL ALSO VISIT (UPON) THE ALTARS OF BETHEL - Israel then hoped that its false worship of “nature” would avail it. God says, cont...
II. THE PROPHETIC MESSAGES UNCOVERING THE CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE CHAPTER 3 The First Discourse _ 1. There is cause for judgment (Amos 3:1) _ 2. The coming judgment visitation (Amos 3:9) Amos 3:1...
GUILT AND DOOM OF SAMARIA. The prophet proceeds to apply the lesson. The peoples are summoned to proclaim the fate that has befallen (Amos 3:9 *) the castles of Ashdod and those in the land of Egypt,...
IN THE DAY THAT, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 32:34). App-92. GROUND. earth. Hebrew. _erez_....
The sentence. _An adversary_ or _Distress_, a rendering which most moderns prefer. there shall be _even round about_ The Hebrew is harsh: a very slight change, supported by Pesh. (יְסֹבֵב for וּסְבִ...
The thought of Amos 3:11 is further developed. The ruin will be complete: the idolatrous altars, and the sumptuous palaces, will alike be involved in it....
_visit_ Cf. on Amos 3:2. _I will also visit_ I WILL VISIT: there is no -also"; the וְ, by a common Hebrew idiom, merely introduces the verbal predicate. _the altars of Beth-el_ Beth-el, now _Beitin_,...
_PUNISHMENT FOR ISRAEL'S TRANSGRESSIONS -- AMOS 3:12-15:_ Under the Law of Moses if a person was keeping animals and one of the animals was torn he could bring some parts of the animal and not be resp...
REASON CALLS FOR REPENTANCE ISRAEL'S SINS ASTONISH EVENTHE HEATHEN TEXT: Amos 3:9-15 9 Publish ye in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upo...
That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground. THAT - rather,...
THE FIRST ADDRESS 1-8. A call to attention. 9, 10. The oppressions practised by the powerful. 11-15. The disasters which should overtake them, their sanctuary and their palaces. 1. 'Race' would be...
BETH-EL had been a sanctuary prior to the Israelite occupation of the land. In the days of Amos it was the undisputed religious capital of the northern kingdom (Amos 7:13), whose subjects gathered the...
THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 3 GOD WARNS ISRAEL’S PEOPLE V1 People in Israel, listen to this message. The *Lord has spoken against you. This message...
כִּ֗י בְּ יֹ֛ום פָּקְדִ֥י פִשְׁעֵֽי ־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל...
CIVILIZATION AND JUDGMENT Amos 3:1 - Amos 4:3 WE now enter the Second Section of the Book of Amos: Chapter s 3-6. It is a collection of various oracles of denunciation, grouped partly by the recurren...
THE LORD'S WORD MUST COME TRUE Amos 3:1-15 The closer our relationship with God, the more searching His scrutiny and chastening. The sins of God's children which may seem of slight consequence are ri...
Having thus uttered the declamations of Jehovah's judgment on all the nations, the prophet delivered his special message to Israel in a series of three discourses. In each the introductory word is, "H...
CHAPTER III. _ Bethel. Manahem seems to have sent one of the calves to engage Phul to come to his assistance, Osee x. 5., and 4 Kings xv. 19. Salmanasar had both, Osee viii. 5. Josias afterwards defi...
There is somewhat very striking in the Lord's appeal to the nations of the earth for the justification of his conduct concerning his people. It not only is intended to this purpose, for perhaps this i...
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...
Amos, I have no doubt, added this passage, to show that the superstitions, in which he knew the Israelites falsely trusted, would be so far from being of any help to them, that they would, on the cont...
After having specified each one of the nations that were found on the territory promised to Abraham, God addresses Judah and Israel together-the whole family whom He had brought up from Egypt. These o...
THAT IN THE DAY THAT I SHALL VISIT THE TRANSGRESSIONS OF ISRAEL UPON HIM,.... The three or four mentioned in the preceding chapter, the great multitude of them, their profaneness, uncleanness, and lux...
That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground. Ver. 14. _That in...
_Hear ye, and testify_, &c. These words are directed to the prophets whom God sends to declare his will. _In the day that I shall visit,_ &c. In the general destruction of the ten tribes, my judgments...
that in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him, with an adequate punishment, I WILL ALSO VISIT THE ALTARS OF BETHEL, the center of idolatrous worship in Israel; AND THE HORNS...
THE LORD DECLARING HIS PURPOSE...
VISIT THE TRANSGRESSIONS OF ISRAEL: Or, punish Israel for...
9-15 That power which is an instrument of unrighteousness, will justly be brought down and broken. What is got and kept wrongfully, will not be kept long. Some are at ease, but there will come a day...
IN THE DAY; in the appointed time, and within compass of a little time too; God will in his set time make quick work with them. VISIT THE TRANSGRESSIONS OF ISRAEL UPON HIM; the many and great transgre...
Amos 3:14 day H3117 punish H6485 (H8800) Israel H3478 transgressions H6588 visit H6485 (H8804) altars H4196 Bethel...
AMOS PUTS ISRAEL ON TRIAL BEFORE YHWH IN THE PRESENCE OF WITNESSES (AMOS 3:9). Amos begins by calling his witnesses together in Amos 3:9, giving his grounds for doing so, and then declaring YHWH's own...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's controversy with Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Amos. CONCLUSION: Judgment begins at the house of God. The nearer men are to God in profession, and the kinder notice God has taken of t...
Amos 3:1. _Against the whole family_ of the twelve tribes, _which I brought up from Egypt._ It was a laborious work to make them hear. The prophets did not confine their labours to local districts. Am...
_Therefore thus saith the Lord God; An adversary there shall be even round about the land._ THE SPOILER SPOILED In the previous verse Amos has pronounced God’s verdict on the proud citizens of Samar...
_They know not to do right._ SAFETY IN RIGHTEOUSNESS 1. The real security of wealth is justice in its acquisition and liberality in its use. Where there is much wealth, unjustly gotten, or unmercifu...
CRITICAL NOTES.] AMOS 3:13. HEAR] Addressed to heathen who have now to witness the punishment upon Israel. AMOS 3:14. ALTARS] Vengeance upon the centre from which spread the evils (1 Kings 12:32). Ho
EXPOSITION VERSE 1-CH. 6:14 Part II. THREE ADDRESSES PARTICULARIZING THE SINS OF ISRAEL AND ANNOUNCING IMMINENT JUDGMENT. AMOS 3:1 § 1.
Hear this word [Amos said] that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, and against the whole family (Amos 3:1) So that would include Judah also. which I brought up from the land of...
1 Kings 13:2; 2 Chronicles 31:1; 2 Chronicles 34:6; 2 Chronicles 34:7;...
Of Israel — The many and great transgressions of the ten tribes....