Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Amos 5:10
They hate, &c. The connection is not "difficult". The Structure is the commentary. Compare Isaiah 29:21.
him that rebuketh, &c.. the reprover.
in the gate: i.e. before the judge.
uprightly. truthfully.
They hate, &c. The connection is not "difficult". The Structure is the commentary. Compare Isaiah 29:21.
him that rebuketh, &c.. the reprover.
in the gate: i.e. before the judge.
uprightly. truthfully.
Verse 10. _THEY HATE HIM THAT REBUKETH IN THE GATE_] They cannot bear an upright _magistrate_, and will not have _righteous laws_ executed....
THEY HATE HIM THAT REBUKETH - “The gate” is the well-known place of concourse, where just or, in Israel now, unjust judgment was given Deuteronomy 25:7; Job 5:4; Job 31:21;...
CHAPTER 5 The Third Discourse _ 1. The lamentation (Amos 5:1) _ 2. Seek the Lord and ye shall live (Amos 5:4) 3. The wailing (Amos 5:16) 4. The captivity announced ...
THE IMPENDING PUNISHMENT. The prophet gives his next few words the form of a dirge (_kî nah_,_ Amos 5:1_). This (Amos 5:2) is characterised by the peculiar _kî nah-metre_, consisting of three beats or...
The prophet reverts to the subject of Amos 5:7, which was interrupted by Amos 5:8. _They hate him that_ REPROVETH _in the gate_, &c. They are heedless (Amos 5:7) of the claims of justice: they will no...
Proof that Israel merits the fate which has just been pronounced against it: it has sought Jehovah by a ritual which He does not value, and it has spurned the virtues which He really prizes. _Seek ye...
_CHOOSE GOOD INSTEAD OF EVIL -- AMOS 5:9-15 _ Life is a matter of the choices that we make. Israel chose to have fair judges and honest witnesses. Israel did not want to be reminded of her sins so she...
REVELATION CALLS FOR REPENTANCEGOD'S OMNIPOTENCE AND OMNISCIENCE TEXT: Amos 5:6-13 6 Seek Jehovah, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour and there be...
They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly. THEY HATE HIM THAT REBUKETH IN THE GATE - the judge who condemns their iniquity in the place of judgment (). A...
THE THIRD ADDRESS 1-6. A lament, a warning, and an invitation. 7, 10-20. Denunciation of injustice and oppression, with threats of pestilence and judgment. 21-27. A repudiation of their attempt to...
THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 5 GOD ENCOURAGES ISRAEL’S PEOPLE TO COME BACK TO HIM V1 People in Israel, listen to this song. ‘This funeral song is ab...
REBUKER IN THE GATE. — The person so described might be the prophet himself. So also _he that speaketh uprightly. _...
שָׂנְא֥וּ בַ † שַּׁ֖עַר מֹוכִ֑יחַ וְ דֹבֵ֥ר...
2. FOR WORSHIP, JUSTICE Amos 5:1 In the next of these groups of oracles Amos continues his attack on the national ritual, and now contrasts it with the service of God in public life-the relief of the...
“PREPARE TO MEET THY GOD” Amos 4:12-13; Amos 5:1-15 Worse judgments than those mentioned in the previous verses were in store but before they are inflicted, the entire nation is summoned to the divin...
The third discourse was a description of Jehovah's judgment. This opened with a lamentation for the virgin of Israel, "The virgin of Israel is fallen, she shall no more rise, she is cast down upon her...
They hate him (f) that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly. (f) They hate the Prophets, who reprove them in the open assemblies....
_They, the wicked, could not endure Amos, (chap. vii. 12.) nor those who rebuked them._...
The first verse in this paragraph is a confirmation, if it were needed, of what I advanced in my observations on the former. Seeking the Lord, implies the hope of finding him, and indeed the promise 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...
It is probable that in this verse also, the judges are reproved by the Prophet, though what is here said may be extended to the whole people: but as nearly the whole discourse is leveled against the j...
After having deplored the ruin of Israel, He contrasts the places of their false worship with Jehovah, the Creator, and exhorts them to come unto Him and live. But Israel put off the thought of the ev...
THEY HATE HIM THAT REBUKETH IN THE GATE,.... Openly and publicly in the courts of judicature: wicked judges hated the prophets of the Lord, such as Amos, who faithfully reproved them for the perversio...
They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly. Ver. 10. _They hate him that rebuketh in the gate_] _In dome iudicii,_ saith the Chaldee: for the gate was the pla...
_They hate him that rebuketh in the gate_ The usual place of administering justice, and of reproving and passing judgment on iniquity. The prophet now, after having descanted upon God's wondrous power...
ISRAEL'S ONLY SAFETY IN SEEKING THE LORD...
They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, him who raises his voice against the universal unrighteousness, AND THEY ABHOR HIM THAT SPEAKETH UPRIGHTLY, for the very fact that some one is honest and true...
7-17 The same almighty power can, for repenting sinners, easily turn affliction and sorrow into prosperity and joy, and as easily turn the prosperity of daring sinners into utter darkness. Evil times...
Either this is the prophet's complaint of them without further expecting their compliance with his advice, or he foretells what they will do, judges and people. THEY HATE HIM THAT REBUKETH; they both...
Amos 5:10 hate H8130 (H8804) rebukes H3198 (H8688) gate H8179 abhor H8581 (H8762) speaks H1696 ...
THE SECOND INDICTMENT ON ISRAEL AMOS 5:10). This second indictment is fuller than the first (Amos 5:7), and is written in chiastic form. Thus: a It opens with reference to those who reprove or speak...
A LAMENTATION OVER ISRAEL (AMOS 5:1). While speaking powerfully Amos had no joy in what was to happen to Israel, and having pronounced judgment on them, he now laments what must necessarily be their e...
Amos 5:4. _For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:_ And that it just the message of God to professing Christians now: «Seek ye me.» Get away from your mere ce...
CONTENTS: God's lamentation over Israel and captivity foretold. The day of the Lord. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: If men will not take a right course to obtain the favor of God, God will take an eff...
Amos 5:2. _The virgin of Israel is fallen._ Babylon, which had never been stormed by a besieging army, is called a virgin. Isaiah 47:1. Thus Israel, whose kingdom had never yet been wholly subdued, is...
_They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly._ THE HATES OF SIN Amos has here preserved a characteristic of the society of his time which throws much light on...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 5:1 Although they face imminent destruction, God still pleads with his people to return to him. ⇐ ⇔
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 5:10 REPROVES IN THE GATE. The walled cities of the ancient Near East had covered gatehouses with multiple sets of gates. If the enemy broke through one gate, they were immediately c...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 5:7.] God in his omnipotence in contrast with the ungodly people, indicating that he who can destroy should be feared. WORMWOOD] Justice embittered, corrupted, and made hateful...
EXPOSITION VERSE 1-CH. 6:14 § 8. _Third address_:_ the prophet utters a lamentation over the fall of Israel_. (Amos 6:1.) He calls her to repentance, while he shows wherein she has declined from the...
Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation (Amos 5:1), Weeping over the house of Israel now. The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her l...
1 Kings 18:17; 1 Kings 21:20; 1 Kings 22:8; 2 Chronicles 24:20;...
They — The judges and people. In the gate — Where judges sat, and where the prophets many times delivered their message....