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Verse Amos 7:2. _BY WHOM SHALL JACOB ARISE?_] The _locusts_, the
symbols of the many enemies that had impoverished Jerusalem, having
devoured much of the produce of the land, were proceeding, till, a...
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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...
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THE VISION OF THE LOCUSTS. On one occasion the prophet saw (Amos 7:1)
and behold, Yahweh formed locusts at the beginning of the coming up of
the late spring grass (_lekesh_, RV latter growth), the gra...
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BY WHOM SHALL JACOB ARISE? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. Some
codices, with Septuagint, Syriac and Vulgate, read "who shall raise up
Jacob'? "
JACOB. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of the Su...
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The locusts had eaten up all the HERB _of the land_(Exodus 10:12;
Exodus 10:15), when Amos intercedes on behalf of his people, urging
its inability to recover itself, if the work of destruction should...
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The first vision. The devouring locusts....
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_THE VISION OF LOCUST -- AMOS 7:1-3:_ The Lord showed Amos that he was
going to send locusts to attack the crops of Israel. This would happen
after the king has already been given his share of the gra...
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DISCOURSE: 1193
GOD’S CONDESCENSION TO PRAYER
Amos 7:2. _Then I said, O Lord God, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom
shall Jacob arise? for he is small. The Lord repented for this: It
shall not be, sai...
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BY WHOM SHALL JACOB ARISE?— After the death of Jeroboam the second,
the kingdom of Israel, formerly so flourishing and powerful, fell into
a state of weakness, which induced it to have recourse to str...
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PROPHECIES PRESENTED, Chapter S 7-9
CAUSES OF JUDGMENT PROPHESIEDNOT ALIGNED WITH GOD'S STANDARD
TEXT: Amos 7:1-9
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Thus the Lord, Jehovah showed me: and, behold, he formed locusts in
the beginning...
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And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the
grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee:
by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
THEN I SAID, O LOR...
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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...
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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....
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THE GRASS OF THE LAND. — The same word is used in the original in
Genesis 1:11, signifying herbs and vegetables. Amos saw the first wave
of disaster in the destruction of the food of the people, and h...
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וְ הָיָ֗ה אִם ־כִּלָּה֙ לֶֽ אֱכֹול֙
אֶת
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_When. Septuagint, "If it shall eat up," &c. (Haydock) --- Little.
After Jeroboam II, the kingdom fell to decay, when Manahem called in
the Assyrians. (Calmet)_...
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The Prophet is here preaching by figure, in vision perhaps it might
be; and by a multitude of grasshoppers, he points out the certain ruin
of the country by famine. If we compare this scripture with t...
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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...
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But we must supply this prophecy or vision to its proper time. I doubt
not, and I think that I can gather this from certain considerations,
that the Prophet here compares the time which had preceded t...
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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...
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AND IT CAME TO PASS, [THAT] WHEN THEY HAD MADE AN END OF EATING THE
GRASS OF THE LAND,.... That is, the grasshoppers or locusts; when in
the vision it seemed to the prophet that almost all the grass o...
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And it came to pass, [that] when they had made an end of eating the
grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee:
by whom shall Jacob arise? for he [is] small.
Ver. 2. _When th...
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_When they had made an end of eating the grass_ With us grasshoppers
are not hurtful, but those in our text were _locusts_, as the word
גבי, here used, is rendered, Isaiah 33:4: in which sense the wor...
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And it came to pass that, "when they had made an end of eating the
grass of the land, all the plants which came up at that time, in the
rest of the season, THEN I SAID, O LORD GOD, FORGIVE, I BESEECH...
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THE VISIONS OF THE GRASSHOPPERS, OF THE FIRE, AND OF THE PLUMB-LINE....
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BY WHOM SHALL JACOB ARISE?:
Or, who of (or for) Jacob shall stand?...
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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...
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Either visionally, the whole scheme represented both locusts, grass,
herbs, and corn, and it represented the grass as almost all eaten up,
and the locusts ready to fall upon the corn, and all that rem...
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Amos 7:2 finished H3615 (H8765) eating H398 (H8800) grass H6212 land
H776 said H559 (H8799) Lord...
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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
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THE FIRST VISION - THE LOCUST SWARM (AMOS 7:1).
In this vision ‘the Lord YHWH' showed Amos the forming of a huge
swarm of locusts which devoured the vegetation of the whole land.
Amos, a farmer himsel...
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Amos 7:1. Thus hath the Lord God showed unto me; and, behold, he
formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter
growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowing...
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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...
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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...
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_By whom shall Jacob arise?_
THE DUTY OF CHRISTIANS TOWARDS THE JEWS
These words were used as a plea for Israel before God, and proved
successful.
1. Jacob is fallen. And great was his fall. He stoo...
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_O Lord, forgive, I beseech Thee. .. The Lord repented for this: It
shall not be, saith the Lord._
INTERCESSION FOR PARDON PREVAILING
I. Concerning intercession.
1. This intercession was made by Am...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Amos 7:5; Daniel 9:19; Exodus 10:15; Exodus 32:11; Exodus 32:12;...
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It came to pass — In the vision. By whom — How shall any of Jacob
escape, if thou dost cast him down?...