Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
Amos 5:12
They afflict the just, &c.— Who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside, &c. Houbigant.
They afflict the just, &c.— Who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside, &c. Houbigant.
Verse 12. _I KNOW YOUR MANIFOLD TRANSGRESSIONS_] I have marked the _multitude_ of your _smaller crimes_, as well as your _mighty offenses._ Among their _greater offenses_ were, 1. Their afflicting th...
FOR I KNOW - Literally, “I have known.” They thought that God did not know, because He did not avenge; as the Psalmist says, “Thy judgments are far above out of his sight” Psalms 10:5. People who do n...
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...
TRANSGRESSIONS. HEBREW PASHA. App-44. SINS. Hebrew. _chata_ App-44. THEY AFFLICT. oppressors [as ye are] of. THE JUST. a righteous one. TAKE. BRIBE. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 35:31; Numbers...
Israel's desperate moral condition, a justification of the sentence just pronounced upon it....
_For I know_ HOW MANIFOLD ARE _your transgressions, and_ HOW MIGHTY ARE _your sins_ Jehovah's _knowledge_of what they imagine He is ignorant of (Psalms 73:11; Job 22:13), is the ground of the sentence...
_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...
DISCOURSE: 1191 GOD KNOWS OUR SINS Amos 5:12. _I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins_. MANY passages of Holy Writ appear to refer to a particular people only; whilst in reality, th...
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...
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right. THEY AFFLICT THE JUST, THEY TAKE A...
5:12 bribe, (d-20) 1 Samuel 12:3 ....
RV 'For I know how manifold are your transgressions and how mighty are your sins; ye that afflict the just, that take a bribe, and that turn aside the needy,' etc. BRIBE] The word means 'ransom' (see...
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...
I KNOW. — Most of the commentators imply that the “I” is Jehovah, but it is more likely to be the prophet himself. The adjectives “manifold,” “mighty,” should be rendered as predicates, _That manifold...
כִּ֤י יָדַ֨עְתִּי֙ רַבִּ֣ים פִּשְׁעֵיכֶ֔ם וַ עֲצֻמִ֖ים...
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...
_Grievous. Hebrew also, "numerous."_...
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...
The Prophet introduces God here as the speaker, that the threatening might be more authoritative: for we know, at it has been before stated, that the Prophets were despised by haughty men; but when Go...
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...
FOR I KNOW YOUR MANIFOLD TRANSGRESSIONS AND YOUR MIGHTY SINS,.... Their sins were numerous, and of the first magnitude, attended with very heavy aggravations; and these with all their circumstances we...
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate [from their right]. Ver. 12. _For I know your manifold...
_Forasmuch, therefore, as your treading is upon the poor_ It appears by this, that their acts of oppression were more than ordinarily proud and tyrannical. They were the effect of fraud executed with...
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins, outstanding even in the midst of a nation steeped in wickedness; THEY AFFLICT THE JUST, making life a burden for him, THEY TAKE A BRIBE, c...
ISRAEL'S ONLY SAFETY IN SEEKING THE LORD...
A BRIBE: Or, a ransom...
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...
FOR; wonder not at the threatened severity, as if it were too rigorous; it is but proportioned to your sins. I, the Lord, whom you provoke, who have threatened you, know, clearly, fully, and in all th...
Amos 5:12 know H3045 (H8804) manifold H7227 transgressions H6588 mighty H6099 sins H2403 Afflicting H6887 (H8802) just...
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...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 5:1 Although they face imminent destruction, God still pleads with his people to return to him. ⇐ ⇔
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 Samuel 8:3; 2 Kings 17:7; Acts 3:13; Acts 3:14; Acts 7:52;...
In the gate — In their courts of justice....