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Hawker's Poor man's commentary

Amos 1:3-5

The Lord begins with Damascus, one of the most ancient enemies of Israel when in Canaan. The three or four transgressions means many and for every one of which the Lord will account with them, and a dreadful account it will be when it comes. All the palaces of their kings shall be destroyed, and the inhabitants of their cities shall be punished. And these things were literally accomplished, as we read 2 Kings 16:9. If the Reader compares dates, he will find the distance between the prophecy and the accomplishment near fifty years.

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See also Amos 1:3-5 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Amos 1:3. _FOR THREE TRANSGRESSIONS OF DAMASCUS, AND FOR FOUR_] These expressions of _three_ and _four_, so often repeated in this chapter, mean _repetition, abundance_, and any thing that goes...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The order of God’s threatenings seems to have been addressed to gain the hearing of the people. The punishment is first denounced upon their enemies, and that, for their sins, directly or indirectly,...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED AGAINST THE NATIONS, JUDAH, AND ISRAEL CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The introduction (Amos 1:1) _ 2. Damascus (Amos 1:3) 3. Philistia (Amos 1:6) 4. Tyre ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    DAMASCUS. It is Yahweh who speaks by the mouth of the prophets. The mention of Damascus, the capital of the Aramaean or Syrian kingdom, would at once arrest attention, for until recently Israel had be...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THUS SAITH THE LORD. Jehovah's words: not the words of Amos.. The prophetic formula. See App-82. See the twelve with Jehovah, in verses: Amos 3:6; Amos 3:9; Amos 3:11; Amos 3:13;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four_ Similarly Amos 1:6_; Amos 1:9; Amos 1:11; Amos 1:13_,...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Amos 1:3 TO AMOS 2:5. The sins of Israel's neighbours 3 5. DAMASCUS. The first denunciation lights upon the Syrian kingdom of Damascus, the best-organized and most formidable of Israel's neighbours, w...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _TRANSGRESSIONS OF DEMACUS -- AMOS 1:1-5:_ Amos was not a professional prophet. He said, "I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit.” (Amo...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    I WILL NOT TURN AWAY THE PUNISHMENT THEREOF— _I will not revoke it;_ that is, the voice which denounced their destruction. Houbigant renders the verse, _After three transgressions of Damascus, I will...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PUNISHMENT PROMISED, THE HEATHEN NATIONSDAMASCUS TEXT: Amos 1:1-5 1. The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron: THUS SAIT...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JUDGE, SCEPTRE-HOLDER (Amos 1:5), KING (Amos 1:15), are all practically identical in meaning. 4, 5. The surrounding nations are charged with violations of the law written in the heart, Judah with offe...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SINS OF ISRAEL'S NEIGHBOURS AND THE PUNISHMENTS WHICH SHOULD FOLLOW 1. We may paraphrase the main part of the sentence thus: 'The words of Amos, describing what he saw in prophetic vision.' HERDM...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ ABOUT THIS BOOK WHEN AMOS LIVED Amos came from Tekoa, about 12 miles south of Jerusalem. He was a *shepherd and he looked after...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    CURSE ON DAMASCUS. (3) THREE TRANSGRESSIONS... — This form of transgression, which occurs eight times in the prologue, is not an arithmetical, but a strongly idiomatic phrase, signifying “multiplied...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה עַל ־שְׁלֹשָׁה֙ פִּשְׁעֵ֣י...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    ATROCITIES AND ATROCITIES Amos 1:3 - Amos 2:1 LIKE all the prophets of Israel, Amos receives oracles for foreign nations. Unlike them, however, he arranges these oracles not after, but before, his in...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    OUTSIDE NATIONS SHALL SUFFER JUDGMENT Amos 1:1-10 Amos opens his prophecies with predictions against neighboring peoples, that Israel may be led to appreciate her guilt and to bear the approach of Go...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The second verse of this first chapter gives the key to the book. Jehovah declared Himself in judgment. Beginning at the point farthest from Israel, the prophet delivered his messages to the nations a...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Thus saith the LORD; For (e) three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they have (f) threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron: ...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Three---four. That is, for their many unrepented of crimes. (Challoner) --- three is the first number of which we can say "many or all." Four denotes excess. Thus God forgives many sins, yet punishes...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    It is singular that Amos said that his words were concerning Israel, and that he should now turn to speak of Damascus and the country of Syria. This seems inconsistent; for why does he not perform the...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 AND 2. In the outset Jehovah, proclaiming His own rights from the place of His own throne, roars from Zion and utters His voice from Jerusalem. Afterwards,...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THUS SAITH THE LORD,.... Lest it should be thought that the words that Amos spoke were his own, and he spake them of himself, this and the following prophecies are prefaced in this manner; and he begi...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron: Ver. 3. _...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _For three transgressions_, &c. The prophet first denounces judgments against foreign countries, and afterward comes to Judah and Israel. He begins with Syria, the head or capital city of which was Da...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AGAINST DAMASCUS AND GAZA...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Thus saith the Lord, For three transgressions of Damascus, the capital of Syria, with its country, AND FOR FOUR, the number being by no means restricted, I WILL NOT TURN THE PUNISHMENT THEREOF, litera...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    FOR FOUR: Or, he for four TURN AWAY THE PUNISHMENT: Or, convert it, or let it be quiet. And so ver. 6...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THUS SAITH THE LORD; Amos speaks not by conjecture, or of his own head, but as he comes in the name of the Lord, so he assures us of it by this most solemn attestation. THREE TRANSGRESSIONS: this cert...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Amos 1:3 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 three H7969 transgressions H6588 Damascus H1834 four H702 away H7725 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    1). YHWH'S JUDGMENT ON DAMASCUS (AMOS 1:3). YHWH's judgment on Damascus, a city (representing Aram) which had proved through the years to be Israel's most dangerous enemy, would be because of their co...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    SEVEN JUDGMENTS AGAINST THE NEIGHBOURING NATIONS, INCLUDING JUDAH (AMOS 1:3 TO AMOS 2:5). The announcing of YHWH's judgments on seven nations (including Judah) can be looked at in two ways. First it w...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Judgments pronounced upon surrounding peoples Syria, Tyre, Edom, Ammon. CHARACTERS: God, Amos, Uzziah, Jeroboam, Hazael, Benhadad. CONCLUSION: The God of Israel is the God of all the earth...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Amos 1:1. _The words of Amos,_ written with his own hand. He does not name his parents, because they were plain country people. He was himself _among the herdmen of Tekoa,_ a small city twelve miles s...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I will not turn away the punishment thereof._ THE PURPOSE OF DIVINE THREATENINGS The order of God’s threatenings seems to have been addressed to gain the hearing of the people. The punishment is fir...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    AMOS 1:2 Oracles of Judgment. Amos delivers a series of messages from God showing that neither Israel’s neighbors (Amos 1:2) nor Israel herself (Amos 2:6) can es

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 1:3 THREE TRANSGRESSIONS... FOUR. This poetic device expresses totality (compare Proverbs 30:15,...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 1:3. Three] The numbers serve to denote the multiplicity of sins, “ungodliness in its worst form” [_Luther_]. TURN] Reverse, to make a thing go back, to withdraw it (Numbers 23:...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION VERSE 1-CH. 2:16 PART I. APPROACHING JUDGMENT. VERSE 1-CH. 2:3 _§ 1. The nations bordering on the Holy Land are solemnly summoned to judgment._ AMOS 1:1, AMOS 1:2 Heading o

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Let's turn now to the book of Amos. In the first verse of Amos he introduces himself. These are the words of Amos, who was among the herdmen [or a shepherd] at Tekoa (Amos 1:1), Now Tekoa is a little...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 19:17; 2 Kings 10:32; 2 Kings 10:33; 2 Kings 13:3; 2 Kings

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    For three — This certain number is put for an uncertain: three, that is, many. Of Damascus — Here Damascus is put for the whole kingdom of Syria. Threshed — Treated it with the utmost cruelty. Gilead...

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