Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Amos 5:19
Your escape will be impossible. You will avoid one calamity, only to fall into a worse.
Your escape will be impossible. You will avoid one calamity, only to fall into a worse.
Verse 19. _AS IF A MAN DID FLEE FROM A LION, AND A BEAR MET HIM_] They shall go from one evil to another. He who escapes from the _lion's_ mouth shall fall into the _bear's_ paws: - Incidit in Scylla...
AS IF A MAN, DID FLEE FROM A LION - The Day of the Lord is a day of terror on every side. Before and behind, without and within, abroad under the roof of heaven, or under the shelter of his own, every...
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 ...
ISRAEL'S DELUSIONS. The prophet resumes the subject of Israel's delusions, how she disregards the essential conditions of real welfare. In Amos 5:18 he deals with a peculiar example of this, the conce...
MAN. Hebrew. _'ish_. App-14. A LION. Hebrew the face of. lion.. special various reading called _Sevir_ (App-34) reads "the mouth of. lion". A BEAR. The Syrian bear is fiercer than. lion (Daniel 7:5....
Examples of a condition beset by perils, in which men escape from one danger, only to fall into another, perhaps worse. _a bear_ Bears are now found only in the far north of Palestine, about Mount Her...
Those who desire the "Day of Jehovah," as though it could be anything but an interposition in their favour, will find to their surprise that it is a day fraught with peril and disaster....
_JUDGMENT IS COMING -- AMOS 5:16-20 _ Many of the people of Israel were wanting God's judgment to come. But they were in for trouble! It would not be a time of sunshine; all would be darkness. God had...
RIGHTEOUSNESS DEMANDS REPENTANCEHATE EVIL AND LOVE GOD TEXT: Amos 5:14-20 14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live; and so Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be with you, as ye say. 15 Hate the...
As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. AS IF A MAN DID FLEE FROM A LION, AND A BEAR MET HIM - trying t...
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...
DAY OF THE LORD] see Intro., and cp. Isaiah 5:30; Isaiah 8:22; Joel 2:2; Obadiah 1:15. 21. Festivals such as Tabernacles ...
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...
כַּ אֲשֶׁ֨ר יָנ֥וּס אִישׁ֙ מִ פְּנֵ֣י הָ
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...
A DARK DAY FOR HYPOCRITES Amos 5:16-27 Mighty sins had been committed, and mighty judgments were at hand. The oppression of the poor, Amos 5:11; the erection of elegant dwellings from unrighteous ex...
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...
_Serpent. All his attempts would thus proved abortive. The Israelites were not ruined by Phul, or by Theglathphalassar. But the serpent, (Haydock) Salmanasar, came and took them in their own houses, 4...
It should seem from what is here said, that there were characters in those days not unlike the scoffers the Apostle describes, that should come in the last days, who derided the day of the Lord's comi...
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...
Here is expressed more clearly what the Prophet had said before, — that hypocrites can have no hope, that the various changes, which may take place, will bring them any alleviation. Hypocrites, while...
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...
AS IF A MAN DID FLEE FROM A LION, AND A BEAR MET HIM,.... That is, should the day of the Lord come as they desired, they would not be the better for it; it would be only going from one trouble to anot...
As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. Ver. 19. _As if a man did fly from a lion_] And so by running fro...
_Wo unto you that desire the day of the Lord_ Scoffingly, not believing any such day will come: for this seems to be spoken of some among them, who, in mockery, expressed a desire of seeing those thin...
WOE UPON FOOLS AND HYPOCRITES...
As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him, so it would be with those who desired the day of the Lord's judgment, OR WENT INTO THE HOUSE AND LEANED HIS HAND ON THE WALL, AND A SERPENT BIT HI...
18-27 Woe unto those that desire the day of the Lord's judgments, that wish for times of war and confusion; as some who long for changes, hoping to rise upon the ruins of their country! but this shou...
AS IF A MAN DID FLEE FROM A LION, AND A BEAR MET HIM: here proverbially is expressed the continuance and succession of evils one after another; it will be a long calamity, when your civil dissensions...
Amos 5:19 man H376 fled H5127 (H8799) from H6440 lion H738 bear H1677 met H6293 (H8804) went...
THE DAY OF YHWH THAT IS COMING COME ON ISRAEL WILL BE A DAY OF DARKNESS, NOT LIGHT (AMOS 5:18). Amos 5:18 ‘Woe to you who desire the day of YHWH! Why would you have the day of YHWH? It is darkness,...
THE FIRST WOE, CONCERNING THE DAY OF YHWH (AMOS 5:18). A ‘woe' was the opposite of a ‘blessed be you of YHWH'. It was the announcing of troubles and disaster that would come on His people directly fro...
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...
_Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! _ THE DAY OF THE LORD I. AN AWAKENING COMMINATION. 1. What is meant by the “day of the Lord”? The day of death, or personal dissolution. The day of ca...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 5:16. Therefore] if ye seek not God, there will be lamentation not only by professional mourners, but in the streets of the city, in all towns of the kingdom, and in places whe...
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 Kings 20:29; 1 Kings 20:30; Acts 28:4; Amos 9:1; Amos 9:2;...
And a bear — You may escape one, but shall fall in another calamity. Into the house — At home you may hope for safety, but there other kind of mischief shall meet you....