Amos 3:1-15

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 a more correct word than family. Judah is included in the appeal, but immediately drops out of sight again.

2. In the Bible to know frequently means to care for, to be deeply interested in (Genesis 18:19; Hosea 13:5; Nahum 1:7; Job 22:13; Psalms 1:6; Psalms 73:11; Proverbs 2:10; Galatians 4:9): at Jeremiah 1:5 and here it has the allied sense 'to choose.' Jehovah chose Israel alone to be His people. And they argued as Dr. Arnold did when he was a child: 'I could not make out how, if my mother loved me more than strange children, she should find fault with me and not with them.'