The lion bath roared. Figure of speech Hypocatastasis. App-6. the Lord GOD hath spoken. Figure of speech Hermeneia. App-6. Explaining the Figure of speech Hypocatastasis. in the preceding line.
who can but prophesy. Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. Some modern critics alter the Feb. to "be frightened", not seeing that it is through the prophets that God speaks (Hebrews 1:1).
Verse Amos 3:8. _THE LION HATH ROARED,_] God hath sent forth a terrible alarm, _Who will not fear_? Can any hear such denunciations of Divine wrath and not tremble? _THE LORD GOD HATH SPOKEN_] And th...
THE LION HATH ROARED: WHO WILL NOT FEAR? THE LORD GOD HATH SPOKEN: WHO CAN BUT PROPHESY? - that is, there is cause for you to fear, when the Lord “roareth from Zion;” but if ye fear not, God’s prophet...
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...
ISRAEL'S RESPONSIBILITY AND THE PROPHET'S OBLIGATION. Amos, after addressing the children of Israel, includes Judah by adding the whole family, unless this is a gloss, as it may be, since the inclusio...
Such a severe rebuke might provoke contradiction among the prophet's hearers: he therefore proceeds to indicate the authority upon which it rests, arguing by means of a series of illustrations drawn f...
Similarly the horn is a signal of danger; calamity is a sign that Jehovah has willed it; and the appearance of a prophet is an indication that Jehovah has sent him....
_THE LORD HAS SPOKEN -- AMOS 3:7-11:_ Whatever God intended to do He revealed through His prophet. It was not just talk. It would happen just as He revealed through His messenger. When God's prophets...
DISCOURSE: 1188 GOD’S VOICE TO SINNERS Amos 3:8. _The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy?_ THERE is not any thing more strange and unreasonable than t...
CAN TWO WALK, &C.— The similies in these verses have the same meaning, and they all tend to shew that calamities happen according to the appointing, permissive, or suffering will of God; and that prop...
PENITENCE PROMOTEDREASON CALLS FOR REPENTANCE THE LORD DOES NOT ROAR WITHOUT CAUSE TEXT: Amos 3:1-8 1 Hear this word that Jehovah hath spoken against you, O children of Israel against the whole fam...
The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy? THE LION HATH ROARED, WHO WILL NOT FEAR? THE LORD GOD HATH SPOKEN, WHO CAN BUT PROPHESY? As when "the lion r...
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...
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...
ROARED. — Comp. the imagery of Amos 1:2, and that of Amos 3:4. The voice of the Lord is so audible, so clearly portending the coming judgment, that universal terror inevitably follows. (Comp. “If thes...
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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...
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...
The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but (i) prophesy? (i) Because the people always murmured against the Prophets, he shows that God's Spirit moved them to spea...
The Lord is going on in his expostulations. He first shews, that by Israel's revolt that sweet communion between the Lord and his people was interrupted. Ca n two walk together except they be agreed?...
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...
It now follows, _The lion roars who would not fear? The Lord Jehovah speaks, who would not prophesy? _In this verse the Prophet reproved the Israelites for their usual contentions with the Prophets wh...
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...
THE LION HATH ROARED, WHO WILL NOT FEAR?.... Amos said this from his own experience, who, having been a herdsman in the wilderness of Tekoa, had often heard a lion roar, which had put him into a panic...
The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy? Ver. 8. _The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy?_] Who that k...
_The Lord will do nothing, but he revealeth_, &c. As if he had said, You cannot complain of your not being forewarned of these calamities coming upon you, for God hath not done, nor will do any thing,...
THE LORD READY TO PUNISH...
The lion hath roared, in sounding the warning of his approach, WHO WILL NOT FEAR? THE LORD GOD HATH SPOKEN, WHO CAN BUT PROPHESY? Amos was simply carrying out the work of his calling in announcing to...
1-8 The distinguishing favours of God to us, if they do not restrain from sin, shall not exempt from punishment. They could not expect communion with God, unless they first sought peace with him. Whe...
THE LION HATH ROARED; God hath threatened; and, as a lion roareth when near his prey, so God hath terribly threatened what is near to be done. Amos lived and prophesied in Jeroboam's time, about A.M....
Amos 3:8 lion H738 roared H7580 (H8804) not H3808 fear H3372 (H8799) Lord H136 GOD H3069 spoken...
THE INEVITABILITY OF JUDGMENT, BOTH BECAUSE OF WHAT YHWH IS, AND BECAUSE HE WILL ACT (AMOS 3:1). Following up on the idea in Amos 2:9 Amos commences this section of his prophecy (introduced by ‘hear t...
THE COVENANT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN YHWH AND HIS PEOPLE (AMOS 3:1). The covenant relationship between YHWH and His people is revealed in this carefully constructed passage in which there is constant re...
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...
_You only have I known of all the families of the earth._ SIN IN THE HIGHLY-FAVOURED This is shameful ingratitude. The honour and blessing conferred on the Israelites gave the stain of ingratitude to...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 3:3 With a series of questions, Amos shows that disaster is coming for Israel. In nature, certain sequences of events lead to predictable outcomes. If a LION roars (vv....
CRITICAL NOTES.] AMOS 3:3. TWO] The prophet and the Spirit of God. Israel did not believe that _God_ threatened such denunciations by the prophets (ch. Amos 6:1; Amos 1:7). Amos spoke because God com...
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 Corinthians 9:16; Acts 4:20; Acts 5:20; Acts 5:29; Amos 2:12;...
Hath roared — As a lion roareth when near his prey: so God hath terribly threatened what is near to be done. Prophesy — Amos can not but speak what he had heard....