THE LORD GOD. Hebrew Adonai Jehovah. App-4. BEHOLD... LO. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6. FORMED. was forming. GRASSHOPPERS. LOCUSTS. Compare Nahum 3:17. THE KING'S MOWINGS. Exacted by the king from the People (1 Kings 4:7; 1 Kings 18:1). These are the symbols of the _army_ of Amos 6:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 Subject), App-6, for the whole nation... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. REPENTED. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6 Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:36). App-92. Compare Jonah 3:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
CALLED, &c.. was calling for fire, to contend [with Israel]. DID EAT UP. PART. would have eaten up the land. A PART. Hebrew. _hahelek,_ with 'eth. the very portion [of the earth given to Israel). Compare Micah 2:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. One of the 134 passages in which the _Sopherim_ say they altered Jehovah of the primitive text to Adonai (App-32). MADE, &c.: i.. [made perpendicular] by. plummet. PLUMBLINE. plummet. Occurs only here.... [ Continue Reading ]
AMOS. Note this personal touch. SET, &c. i.e. measure [the doings of Israel] with the plummet of righteousness AND JUDGMENT. Compare 2 Kings 21:12.Isaiah 28:17; Isaiah 34:11.Lamentations 2:8, &c. PASS BY THEM. forgive them.... [ Continue Reading ]
HIGH PLACES. Used for idolatrous altars, &c. ISAAC... ISRAEL. Used only by Amos in this sense. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for the nation of Israel. Compare Pe. Psalms 105:9; Psalms 105:10; Jeremiah 33:26, &c. I WILL RISE AGAINST, &c. Fulfilled in 2 Kings 15:10. Jeroboa... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PRIEST. The idolatrous priest. BETH-EL. Compare Amos 3:14; Amos 4:4; Amos 5:5; Amos 5:6. CONSPIRED. formed. conspiracy; the calves being connected with Israel's state policy (1 Kings 12:26). IN THE MIDST, &C.: i.e. openly. Compare Amos 7:8. BEAR. endure.... [ Continue Reading ]
JEROBOAM SHALL DIE, &c. This charge was not true. Compare Acts 17:6; Acts 24:5. Note what Amaziah omitted to repeat.... [ Continue Reading ]
INTO. JUDAH. Though belonging to Judah (Amos 1:1) Amos was. prophet to Israel.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPEL. sanctuary, court: or, palace.... [ Continue Reading ]
A PROPHET'S SON. Prophets were not hereditary as priests were. Compare Hebrews 1:1. HERDMAN. See notes on Amos 1:1, GATHERER. preparer.... [ Continue Reading ]
TOOK ME: I.E., CALLED ME Prophets were called by Jehovah; not born prophets, or made prophets by man. See notes on 1 Samuel 10:5.Hebrews 1:1. AS. FOLLOWED, &c. Compare Psalms 78:70; Psalms 78:71.... [ Continue Reading ]
DROP NOT, the. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:2). App-92. Compare Ezekiel 20:46; Ezekiel 20:21; Ezekiel 20:2.Micah 2:6, margin... [ Continue Reading ]
THUS SAITH THE LORD. See note on Amos 1:3, BE AN HARLOT: i.e. become. victim to the lust of the invader. LAND. soil. Hebrew adamah. DIVIDED, &c.:. e. partitioned. IN. POLLUTED LAND. on polluted (i e. heathen) soil, FORTH OF. from upon.... [ Continue Reading ]