THE SECOND ADDRESS 1-3. The heartless luxury of the rich women. 4, 5. The elaborate sacrifices and pilgrimages. 6-12. The failure of God's chastisements to produce amendment. 1. These pampered women are compared to cows grown fat through feeding in the rich pastures of Bashan (Numbers 32:1; Deut... [ Continue Reading ]
HE] RV 'they,' i.e. the conquerors. YOUR POSTERITY] RV 'your residue.' Those farthest removed from danger will be dragged out of their retreats like fish from the water. 3. Like excited cattle each woman would make for the nearest breach in the city wall and endeavour to escape through it. The sec... [ Continue Reading ]
CITIES] i.e. the inhabitants.... [ Continue Reading ]
BLASTING] the effect produced on grain by the burning wind from the desert (Genesis 41:6). PALMERWORM] or locust.... [ Continue Reading ]
AFTER THE MANNER OF EGYPT] 'Life and death march in “double companies” through Egypt. All epidemics revel here.' 2 Kings 13:7 is an illustration of the loss of horses. We are to think of the people as shut up in a fetid camp, with decaying bodies of men and horses, and all the other foul odours of t... [ Continue Reading ]
THUS] but we are not told how. Imagination is to fill up the blank, and the partial overthrow already inflicted is enough to indicate what the final and total ruin will be. They must MEET God as a foe (Joshua 5:13). 13. This verse, Amos 5:8, and Amos 9:6, were probably written on the margin by an ad... [ Continue Reading ]