Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Amos 3:11
Verse Amos 3:11. An adversary, round about the land] Ye shall not be able to escape, wherever ye turn, ye shall meet a foe.
Verse Amos 3:11. An adversary, round about the land] Ye shall not be able to escape, wherever ye turn, ye shall meet a foe.
THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD - There was no human redress. The oppressor was mighty, but mightier the Avenger of the poor. Man would not help; therefore God would. “An adversary” there shall be,...
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,...
THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD. The first of three occurrences of this formula in Amos. See note on Amos 1:3. AN ADVERSARY. An adversary [shall] come. Figure of speech _Ellipsis_. App-6. Compare 2 Kings 17:3...
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...
_THE LORD HAS SPOKEN -- AMOS 3:7-11:_ Whatever God intended to do He revealed through His prophet. It was not just talk. It would happen just as He revealed through His messenger. When God's prophets...
AN ADVERSARY THERE SHALL BE, &C.— _An adversary shall surround thy land: he shall cast thee down from thy power, and thy forts or strong places shall be spoiled._ Houbigant....
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...
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled. AN ADVERSARY THERE SHALL...
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...
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...
AN ADVERSARY. — This rendering is to be preferred to “affliction” (Chald., Syr.). It is the subject of the following verb “bring down,” Assyria being referred to, though not in express terms. The read...
לָכֵ֗ן כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה צַ֖ר וּ
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...
_About, As oxen tread out corn, going round a tree. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "Tyre even all round, thy land shall be a desert." Tsar means "Tyre and tribulation," according to St. Jerome's master. (Ha...
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...
The Prophet here announces the punishment God would inflict on the Israelites. _An enemy, _he says, _and indeed one around you, etc. _Some think צר, _tsar, _to be a verb in the imperative mood; but th...
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...
THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD,.... Because of these tumults and riots, oppression and injustice, violence and robbery: AN ADVERSARY THERE [SHALL BE] EVEN ROUND ABOUT THE LAND: not Tyre, as Theodo...
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary [there shall be] even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled. Ver. 11. _Therefore thus...
_Publish in the palaces at Ashdod_, &c. God here orders the prophet to invite the Philistines and Egyptians, the inveterate enemies of God's Israel, to come and behold what great wickedness was among...
Therefore, thus saith the Lord God, An adversary there shall be even round about the land, literally, "and that, too, from every side of the land," attacking Israel, and particularly Samaria, from all...
THE LORD DECLARING HIS PURPOSE...
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...
THEREFORE; because of all the violence and rapine, with other crying sins, multiplied against God in the midst of them. AN ADVERSARY, the Assyrian with united forces, shall be even round about the lan...
Amos 3:11 says H559 (H8804) Lord H136 GOD H3069 adversary H6862 around H5439 land H776 sap H3381 ...
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...
_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 3:9 Israel’s capital city SAMARIA was a powerful stronghold. It was on a high hill (MOUNTAINS), in a place that was easy to defend. But it was also just off the great highway that co...
CRITICAL NOTES.] AMOS 3:9. PUBLISH] upon (the floor of) the palaces, some; others, _over_ them, to call the princes and inhabitants to hear and see the acts of violence, and testify against Israel. “A...
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...
2 Chronicles 36:19; 2 Kings 15:19; 2 Kings 15:29; 2 Kings 17:3;...
Therefore — Because of all the violence and rapine with other crying sins. An adversary — The Assyrian. Round about — Shall beset the whole land as one besieged city....