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Verse Amos 1:2. _THE LORD WILL ROAR FROM ZION_] It is a pity that our
translators had not followed the hemistich form of the Hebrew: -
Jehovah from Zion shall roar,
And from Jerusalem shall give for...
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THE LORD WILL ROAR - Amos joins on his prophecy to the end of
Joel’s, in order at once in its very opening to attest the oneness
of their mission, and to prepare people’s minds to see, that his own
pr...
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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 ...
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AMOS 1:1 F. SUPERSCRIPTION AND MOTTO. In the present form of the book
we find prefixed to the oracles, probably by a post-exilic editor,
some brief particulars as to the person of the prophet, the dat...
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Amos 1:2. The Exordium
2. _The Lord_ JEHOVAH, or, strictly, YAHWÈH, the personal name by
which the supreme God was known to the Hebrews. The name whatever its
primitive signification may have been was...
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_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...
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THE LORD WILL ROAR— Some commentators have observed that the prophet
Amos makes use of comparisons taken from lions and other animals,
because he himself had been conversant in forests and among diffe...
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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...
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And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from
Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the
top of Carmel shall wither.
THE LORD WILL ROAR FROM ZION - a...
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1:2 pastures (a-16) or 'habitations.' see Jeremiah 9:10 ; Jeremiah
23:10 ; Jeremiah 25:37 , &c....
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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...
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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...
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ROAR. — The prolonged thunder-peal, or lion’s roar, of the Divine
voice, reverberates from the theocratic metropolis of Zion, to the
luxuriant slopes of the noble Carmel, which forms the southern
prom...
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וַ יֹּאמַ֓ר ׀ יְהוָה֙ מִ צִּיֹּ֣ון
יִשְׁאָ֔ג...
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Amos 3:3, Amos 7:14
THE MAN AND THE PROPHET
THE Book of Amos opens one of the greatest stages in the religious
development of mankind. Its originality is due to a few simple ideas,
which it propels...
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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...
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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...
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And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from
Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the
top (d) of Carmel shall wither.
(d) Whatever is fruitful and p...
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_Carmel. "God's vineyard," may dente any fruitful mountain. Amos
refers to pastoral affairs. (Calmet)_...
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The Prophet in a very modest preface, here introduceth himself and his
commission, He was but a poor herd man, and that was among the
humblest stations. And yet he was called by grace to the work. Rea...
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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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He employs here the same words which we explained yesterday in the
Lecture on Joel; but for another purpose. By saying, ‘Jehovah from
Zion shall roar,’ Joel intended to set forth the power of God, who...
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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,...
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AND HE SAID,.... That is, the Prophet Amos, before described; he,
being under divine inspiration, said as follows:
THE LORD WILL ROAR FROM ZION, AND UTTER HIS VOICE FROM JERUSALEM; not
from Samaria,...
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And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from
Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the
top of Carmel shall wither.
Ver. 2. _And he said, The Lord wil...
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_The Lord will roar from Zion_ This and the next clause occur, Joel
3:16, and a similar one, Jeremiah 25:30, where see the notes. The
meaning is, that God would soon spread terror, like beasts of prey...
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And He said, speaking to Amos in a vision, by a special revelation of
the Lord, THE LORD WILL ROAR FROM ZION AND UTTER HIS VOICE FROM
JERUSALEM, Cf Joel 3:16; AND THE HABITATIONS OF THE SHEPHERDS, the...
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AGAINST DAMASCUS AND GAZA...
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HE; Amos. THE LORD; the Almighty and Eternal, whom you of the ten
tribes have forsaken, and thereby have provoked to displeasure. WILL
ROAR: the prophet, alluding to what was dreadful, dangerous, and...
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Amos 1:2 said H559 (H8799) LORD H3068 roars H7580 (H8799) Zion H6726
utters H5414 (H8799) voice...
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INTRODUCTION (AMOS 1:1).
Amos 1:1
‘The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen (cattle-breeders) of
Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of
Judah, and in the days of Je...
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ROAR
"Roar," etc.
Compare (Isaiah 42:13); (Jeremiah 25:30); (Hosea 11:10); (Hosea
11:11); ...
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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...
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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...
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_The Lord will roar from Zion._
THE STERN VOICE OF GOD
The prophet not only shows here, that God was the Author of his
doctrine, but at the same time he distinguishes between the true God,
and the id...
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AMOS 1:2 Oracles of Judgment. Amos delivers a series of messages from
God showing that neither Israel’s neighbors (Amos 1:2) nor Israel
herself (Amos 2:6) can es
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CRITICAL NOTES.] AMOS] Different from the father of Isaiah, _Amots_.
TEK.] 2 Chronicles 20:20 EARTH.] 2 Chronicles 26:16. A premonitory
sign in nature of revolutions in guilty kingdoms ...
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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
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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...
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1 Samuel 25:2; Amos 3:7; Amos 3:8; Amos 4:7; Amos 4:8;...
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Will roar — Alluding to the roaring of an hungry lion for prey.
Jerusalem — The city God had chosen where he dwelt, the seat of
God's instituted worship, and the royal seat of the kingdom as God had
s...