Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
Amos 6:2
Be they better than these kingdoms?— Are these kingdoms better than yours? Houbigant.
Be they better than these kingdoms?— Are these kingdoms better than yours? Houbigant.
Verse Amos 6:2. _PASS YE UNTO CALNEH_] This is, says _Calmet_, the Ctesiphon on the river Tigris. _HAMATH_] The same as _Emesa_. _Hamath_ was a city on the Orontes, in Syria. _GATH_] A well-known to...
PASS OVER TO CALNEH - He bids them behold, east, north, and west, survey three neighboring kingdoms, and see whether God had not, even in the gifts of this world, dealt better with Israel. Why then so...
CHAPTER 6 The Fourth Discourse _ 1. Woe to them that are at ease in Zion (Amos 6:1) _ 2. The punishment announced (Amos 6:7) Amos 6:1. This woe concerns the great men, the chiefs of the nation, who...
THE LUXURY OF ISRAEL'S RULERS. Extravagance in ritual often indicates a perverted sense of what constitutes a true philosophy of life. The price of luxury is far greater than men realise. The prophet...
PASS. Pass over: i. e, the Euphrates. Compare Jeremiah 2:10. unto Calneh. The sequence of these cities is logical rather than geographical. CALNEH. On the Tigris. Built by Nimrod (Genesis 10:10). Call...
Two diametrically opposed explanations of this verse have been given. (1) It has been regarded as continuing the argument of Amos 6:1, the cities named in it being referred to as examples of _prosperi...
_AT EASE IN ZION -- AMOS 6:1-4:_ The national leaders in Israel felt safe and at ease in Zion or Jerusalem and on the mountain of Samaria. However, these notable men of Israel were in trouble. Very gr...
RIGHTEOUSNESS DEMANDS REPENTANCELUXURY LEADS TO INDOLENCE TEXT: Amos 6:1-8 1 Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and to them that are secure in the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chi...
Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border? PASS...
THE FOURTH ADDRESS 1-3. False security of Judah and Israel. 4-6. Carelessness and luxury. 7-11. Captivity, siege, death, ruin. 12, 13. Preposterous errors. 14. The coming of the avenger. 1, 2. Re...
THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 6 GOD WILL CAUSE THE GOOD TIMES IN ISRAEL TO END V1 Oh, it will be very bad for you people in *Zion. You do not think t...
The meaning is obscure. Kalneh, the Kalno of Isaiah 10:9, the Assyrian _Kulunu_ (comp. Genesis 10:10), is here probably mentioned first because it is most easterly. It is identified by Kiepert with _H...
עִבְר֤וּ כַֽלְנֵה֙ וּ רְא֔וּ וּ לְכ֥וּ מִ
3. "AT EASE IN ZION" Amos 6:1 The evil of the national worship was the false political confidence which it engendered. Leaving the ritual alone, Amos now proceeds to assault this confidence. We are t...
“WOE TO THEM THAT ARE AT EASE IN ZION!” Amos 6:1-14 Zion is included with Samaria in this prophecy and the nobles are especially condemned for their drunkenness, gluttony, and insolence. The prophet...
From the formalists the prophet turned toward those who had lost all sense of the spiritual and the moral, and were indifferent, those were ''at ease in Zion," and "secure upon the mountains of Samari...
Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: [be (c) they] better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border? ...
_Chalane. Ctesiphon (Calmet) was built on its ruins, Genesis x. 10. (Haydock) --- Why do you imitate these cities? or, has their greatness protected them? Phul probably took Chanane, and Jeroboam II t...
What is here said of Zion, in the days of the Prophet Amos, is equally applicable to the Church in all days. There is nothing more foreign to a state of grace, than a state of ease in the world. For w...
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...
By this representation Amos shows that there was no excuse for the Jews or the Israelites for sleeping in their sins, inasmuch as they could see, as it were in a mirror, the judgments which God brough...
Chapter 6 dwells upon the false confidence that deceived the heads of Israel. A similar judgment to that of Calneh and Hamath might fall upon Israel. Their chief men gave themselves up to luxury, as t...
PASS YE UNTO CALNEH, AND SEE,.... What is become of that city, which was in the land of Shinar, an ancient city, as early as the days of Nimrod, and built by him, and was with others the beginning of...
Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: [be they] better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border? Ver....
_Pass ye unto Calneh_ To check their pride and carnal security, the prophet bids them consider the state of those cities in the neighbourhood of Canaan that had been as illustrious in their time as ev...
Pass ye unto Calneh, a city in Babylonia, on the river Tigris, AND SEE, AND FROM THENCE GO YE TO HAMATH, THE GREAT, a district and city of Syria beyond the extreme northern boundary of Canaan; THEN GO...
THE PEOPLE GUILTY OF SECURITY AND LUXURY...
1-7 Those are looked upon as doing well for themselves, who do well for their bodies; but we are here told what their ease is, and what their woe is. Here is a description of the pride, security, and...
PASS YE UNTO CALNEH; run over the history of that great and ancient city; as, Go to Shiloh, JEREMIAH 7:12. It was built by Nimrod, GENESIS 10:10, and after a long growth to power, wealth, and security...
Amos 6:2 over H5674 (H8798) Calneh H3641 see H7200 (H8798) go H3212 (H8798) Hamath H2574 great...
THE SECOND WOE ON THOSE WHO COMPLACENTLY RELAXED, DEPENDING ON YHWH'S PROTECTION, WHILE THEY ALSO TOTALLY IGNORED HIS REQUIREMENTS (AMOS 6:1). While Amos's mission was to Israel he never overlooked th...
Amos was a herdsman, and a gatherer of sycamore fruit. His words are rugged, but sometimes he rises to sublimity. His expressions are somewhat dark, and not readily to be understood; but when we learn...
CONTENTS: Woe pronounced upon those at ease in sin abandoned by God. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Many are puffed up and rocked to sleep in carnal security by the position they occupy in the...
Amos 6:1. _The mountain of Samaria._ This city was built on a hill, like Zion, to make it impregnable. See note on Isaiah 28:1. Amos 6:2. _Calneh,_ or Ctesiphon. It was situate almost opposite Seleuci...
_Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath._ COMPARING NOTES This was a Divine challenge to Israel. Israel in those days thought that religion was often a great hardship; that it...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 6:2 Stronger cities than either Jerusalem or Samaria had already fallen. Among these were CALNEH, in south-central Mesopotamia (see Genesis 10:10);...
CRITICAL NOTES.] AMOS 6:2. PASS] Survey three neighbouring kingdoms. “If these kingdoms are not _better_ and _greater_ than yours, why do ye worship _their_ gods and forsake the _true_ God?” [_Elzas_...
EXPOSITION AMOS 6:1 With a second woe the prophet denounces the chiefs of the whole nation, who were quite satisfied with the present state of things, and, revelling in luxury, feared no coming judg...
Shall we turn in our Bibles to Amos chapter 6. The Northern Kingdom of Israel has become apostate. They are living in luxury, carelessness, indifference towards God, when suddenly their peace is distu...
1 Samuel 17:23; 1 Samuel 17:4; 2 Chronicles 26:6; 2 Kings 17:24;...
Pass ye — Run over the history of that great and ancient city. Hemath — Head of the Syrian kingdom, lately overthrown by Tiglath — Pilneser, and a fresh instance of God's just indignation against secu...