Houses. — It is uncertain whether by “winter and summer houses” are meant two classes of royal abodes, or different chambers of the same house (Judges 3:20; Jeremiah 36:22, are compatible with either). “Ivory houses” mean mansions adorned with ivory. For “great houses” should be read many houses.
Verse Amos 3:15. _I WILL SMITE THE WINTER HOUSE WITH THE SUMMER HOUSE_] I will not only destroy the _poor habitations_ and _villages_ in the country, but I will destroy those of the _nobility_ and _g...
AND I WILL SMITE THE WINTER HOUSE WITH THE SUMMER HOUSE - Upon idolatry, there follow luxury and pride. “So wealthy were they,” says Jerome, “as to possess two sorts of houses, “the winter house” bein...
II. THE PROPHETIC MESSAGES UNCOVERING THE CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE CHAPTER 3 The First Discourse _ 1. There is cause for judgment (Amos 3:1) _ 2. The coming judgment visitation (Amos 3:9) Amos 3:1...
GUILT AND DOOM OF SAMARIA. The prophet proceeds to apply the lesson. The peoples are summoned to proclaim the fate that has befallen (Amos 3:9 *) the castles of Ashdod and those in the land of Egypt,...
WINTER HOUSE. Compare Jeremiah 36:22. SUMMER HOUSE. Compare Judges 3:20. HOUSES OF IVORY. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Whole), App-6, for the parts inlaid, paneled, or overlaid with i...
The thought of Amos 3:11 is further developed. The ruin will be complete: the idolatrous altars, and the sumptuous palaces, will alike be involved in it....
_the winter house_ See Jeremiah 36:22. _with the summer house_ Eglon (Judges 3:20) had a "cool upper story," i.e. an additional apartment, built on the flat roof of the house, with latticed windows, a...
The sentence. _An adversary_ or _Distress_, a rendering which most moderns prefer. there shall be _even round about_ The Hebrew is harsh: a very slight change, supported by Pesh. (יְסֹבֵב for וּסְבִ...
_PUNISHMENT FOR ISRAEL'S TRANSGRESSIONS -- AMOS 3:12-15:_ Under the Law of Moses if a person was keeping animals and one of the animals was torn he could bring some parts of the animal and not be resp...
I WILL SMITE THE WINTER-HOUSE, &C.— See Jeremiah 36:22. The Russian princes used to have their winter and summer palaces, that nation having had many of the eastern usages, and even much of their dres...
REASON CALLS FOR REPENTANCE ISRAEL'S SINS ASTONISH EVENTHE HEATHEN TEXT: Amos 3:9-15 9 Publish ye in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upo...
And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD. AND I WILL SMITE THE WINTER ... WITH THE SUMME...
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...
WINTER and SUMMER HOUSE were in some cases distinct buildings, but in others were parts of the same structure differently situated (Judges 3:20; Jeremiah 3:22). The HOUSES OF IVORY remind us of Nero's...
THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 3 GOD WARNS ISRAEL’S PEOPLE V1 People in Israel, listen to this message. The *Lord has spoken against you. This message...
וְ הִכֵּיתִ֥י בֵית ־הַ חֹ֖רֶף עַל ־בֵּ֣ית
CIVILIZATION AND JUDGMENT Amos 3:1 - Amos 4:3 WE now enter the Second Section of the Book of Amos: Chapter s 3-6. It is a collection of various oracles of denunciation, grouped partly by the recurren...
THE LORD'S WORD MUST COME TRUE Amos 3:1-15 The closer our relationship with God, the more searching His scrutiny and chastening. The sins of God's children which may seem of slight consequence are ri...
Having thus uttered the declamations of Jehovah's judgment on all the nations, the prophet delivered his special message to Israel in a series of three discourses. In each the introductory word is, "H...
_Winter. Septuagint, "winged house," to keep off cold, (St. Jerome) or to give air. (Calmet) --- Summer-house. The noblemen had such is cooler regions. (Menochius) --- The kings of Persia passed the s...
There is somewhat very striking in the Lord's appeal to the nations of the earth for the justification of his conduct concerning his people. It not only is intended to this purpose, for perhaps this 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...
Amos shows again that in vain the great people trusted in their wealth and fortified places; for these could not hinder God from drawing them forth to punishment. As then abundance blinds men, and as...
After having specified each one of the nations that were found on the territory promised to Abraham, God addresses Judah and Israel together-the whole family whom He had brought up from Egypt. These o...
AND I WILL SMITE THE WINTER HOUSE WITH THE SUMMER HOUSE,.... Both the one and, the other shall fall to the ground, being beat down by the enemy, or shook and made to fall by the earthquake predicted,...
And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD. Ver. 15. _And I will smite the winter house with...
_Hear ye, and testify_, &c. These words are directed to the prophets whom God sends to declare his will. _In the day that I shall visit,_ &c. In the general destruction of the ten tribes, my judgments...
THE LORD DECLARING HIS PURPOSE...
And I will smite their winter-house with the summer-house, for not only the kings, but the noble and the rich as well had at least two establishments; AND THE HOUSES OF IVORY, whose walls were decorat...
9-15 That power which is an instrument of unrighteousness, will justly be brought down and broken. What is got and kept wrongfully, will not be kept long. Some are at ease, but there will come a day...
I WILL SMITE; by the greatness of the desolation it shall appear that God did smite, though by the Assyrian; or perhaps it may refer to the earthquake foretold two years before it came, AMOS 1:1. THE...
Amos 3:15 destroy H5221 (H8689) winter H2779 house H1004 summer H7019 house H1004 houses H1004 ivory H8127 perish...
AMOS PUTS ISRAEL ON TRIAL BEFORE YHWH IN THE PRESENCE OF WITNESSES (AMOS 3:9). Amos begins by calling his witnesses together in Amos 3:9, giving his grounds for doing so, and then declaring YHWH's own...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's controversy with Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Amos. CONCLUSION: Judgment begins at the house of God. The nearer men are to God in profession, and the kinder notice God has taken of t...
Amos 3:1. _Against the whole family_ of the twelve tribes, _which I brought up from Egypt._ It was a laborious work to make them hear. The prophets did not confine their labours to local districts. Am...
_And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the Lord._ THE HOUSES OF IVORY A devout attention to the...
_Therefore thus saith the Lord God; An adversary there shall be even round about the land._ THE SPOILER SPOILED In the previous verse Amos has pronounced God’s verdict on the proud citizens of Samar...
_They know not to do right._ SAFETY IN RIGHTEOUSNESS 1. The real security of wealth is justice in its acquisition and liberality in its use. Where there is much wealth, unjustly gotten, or unmercifu...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 3:15 All of Israel’s social injustice is represented by the sin of accumulating large amounts of property (see also Isaiah 5:8). This violated the covenant, which said a family’s lan...
CRITICAL NOTES.] AMOS 3:13. HEAR] Addressed to heathen who have now to witness the punishment upon Israel. AMOS 3:14. ALTARS] Vengeance upon the centre from which spread the evils (1 Kings 12:32). Ho
EXPOSITION VERSE 1-CH. 6:14 Part II. THREE ADDRESSES PARTICULARIZING THE SINS OF ISRAEL AND ANNOUNCING IMMINENT JUDGMENT. AMOS 3:1 § 1.
Hear this word [Amos said] that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, and against the whole family (Amos 3:1) So that would include Judah also. which I brought up from the land of...
1 Kings 22:39; Amos 3:11; Amos 6:11; Isaiah 5:9; Jeremiah 36:22;...
The winter — house — Which probably was in the chief city, whither the great men retired in the winter. The summer — house — The houses of pleasure, where the nobles and rich men spent the summer time...