Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Amos 3:10
For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery (l) in their palaces.
(l) The fruit of their cruelty and theft appears by their great riches, which they have in their houses.
For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery (l) in their palaces.
(l) The fruit of their cruelty and theft appears by their great riches, which they have in their houses.
Verse Amos 3:10. _FOR THEY KNOW NOT TO DO RIGHT_] So we may naturally say that they who are doing _wrong_, and to their own prejudice and ruin, must certainly be ignorant of what is _right_, and what...
FOR - (and) they know not to do right They “have not known,” they have least all sense and knowledge, how “to do right” (literally, what is “straight-forward”) because they had so long ceased to do it...
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,...
THEY KNOW NOT. Marking the Structure. RIGHT. straight forward. Hebrew. _nakah_. A rare word. Occurs only in 2 Samuel 15:3.Proverbs 8:9 ("plain"); Amo 24:26. Isaiah 26:10 ("uprightness"); Amo 30:10 ("r...
The heathen themselves are invited to bear witness whether the sins of Samaria do not deserve judgement. _Publish_&c. PROCLAIM IT (lit. _make it to be heard_) OVER _the palaces in Ashdod_, &c., i.e. o...
_know not to do right_ Wrong-doing has become their second nature. _Right_(a rare word) is properly _what is straight in front_, fig. _clear, true, straightforward_(Isaiah 26:10; Isaiah 59:14; 2 Samue...
_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...
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...
For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces. FOR THEY KNOW NOT TO DO RIGHT - their moral corruption blinds their power of discernment, so that...
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...
KNOW NOT TO DO RIGHT. — Not merely have lost the perception of what is and what is not right, _but_ are indifferent to such distinctions. They know not and care not; the awful state of utter moral imp...
וְ לֹֽא ־יָדְע֥וּ עֲשֹׂות ־נְכֹחָ֖ה נְאֻם ־יְ
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...
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...
In this verse he confirms what I have already said of oppressions: he says that they despised every thing right. But not to know this lessens not their guilt, as though they ignorantly offended; but t...
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...
FOR THEY KNOW NOT TO DO RIGHT, SAITH THE LORD,.... What is just and fight between man and man, no, not in one single instance; they did not regard it, or advert to it; they were under no concern about...
For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces. Ver. 10. _For they know not to do right_] They have done wrong so long together, against knowledge a...
_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...
For they know not to do right, saith the Lord, having so thoroughly become accustomed to unrighteousness, WHO STORE UP VIOLENCE AND ROBBERY IN THEIR PALACES, like evil treasures stored up for purposes...
THE LORD DECLARING HIS PURPOSE...
ROBBERY: Or, spoil...
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...
FOR THEY KNOW NOT; those who oppress others do it as unlearned lawyers and judges do, they are shamefully ignorant of the law of God. TO DO RIGHT; what is equal between man and man they will not consi...
Amos 3:10 know H3045 (H8804) do H6213 (H8800) right H5229 Says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 store...
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...
THE INEVITABILITY OF JUDGMENT, BOTH BECAUSE OF WHAT YHWH IS, AND BECAUSE HE WILL ACT (AMOS 3:1). Following up on the idea in Amos 2:9 Amos commences this section of his prophecy (introduced by ‘hear t...
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...
_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 Peter 3:5; Habakkuk 2:8; James 5:3; James 5:4; Jeremiah 4:22;...
Store up — As men lay up wealth in their treasures, perverting judgment, first condemning the innocent, next seizing all his substance....