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96541 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 883.8 (Matthew Henry)
… 3:7 ): Surely the Lord Jehovah will do nothing, none of that evil in the city spoken of ( Amos 3:6 ), but he reveals it to his servants the prophets, though to others it …
96542 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 884.7 (Matthew Henry)
II. That obstinate idolaters shall be hardened in their idolatries ( Amos 4:4, 4:5 ): Come to Bethel, and transgress. It is spoken ironically: “Do so; take your course …
96543 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 884.12 (Matthew Henry)
… 4:7. The rain was withheld when there were yet three months to the harvest, at the time when they used to have it, and therefore the withholding of it was an extraordinary …
96544 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 885.1 (Matthew Henry)
… 5:7, 5:10-5:12. 3. Because it would be their happiness to seek God, and he was ready to be found of them, Amos 5:8, 5:9, 5:14. 4. Because he would proceed, in his wrath, to their …
96545 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 885.6 (Matthew Henry)
… 5:7 ): “ You turn judgment to wormwood, that is, you make your administrations of justice bitter and nauseous, and highly displeasing both to God and man.” That fruit …
96546 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 885.7 (Matthew Henry)
II. They are told of their danger and what judgments they lay exposed to for their sins. 1. The places of their idolatry are in danger of being ruined in the first …
96547 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 885.9 (Matthew Henry)
… 4:7 ); and therefore to whom should they apply but to him who had power to give it? For all the vanities of the heathen could not give rain, nor could the heavens themselves …
96548 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 885.10 (Matthew Henry)
… 5:7. Note, Things are not so bad but that they may be amended if the right course be taken; we must not despair but that grievances may be redressed and abuses rectified …
96549 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 885.15 (Matthew Henry)
… 5:7 ); in that matter therefore they must reform, Zechariah 7:9. This was what God desired more than sacrifices, Hosea 6:6, 15:22 .
96550 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 885.16 (Matthew Henry)
… Jeremiah 7:22, 7:23 .
96551 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 885.17 (Matthew Henry)
… , Acts 7:43; after the LXX.), which it is supposed, represented Saturn, the highest of the seven planets. The worship of the sun, moon, and stars, was the most ancient …
96552 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 885.18 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Acts 7:43 ), further than Judah shall be carried, so far further as not to return. And, to make this sentence appear both the more certain and the more dreadful, he …
96553 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 886.1 (Matthew Henry)
… 6:7 ), God’s abhorring them, and abandoning them and theirs to death ( Amos 6:8-6:11 ), and bringing utter desolation upon them, since they would not be wrought upon …
96554 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 886.4 (Matthew Henry)
… , Jeremiah 7:4. They are haughty because of the holy mountain, Zephaniah 3:11. Note, Many are puffed up with pride, and rocked asleep in carnal security, by their …
96555 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 886.7 (Matthew Henry)
4. They had no concern at all for the interests of the church of God, and of the nation, that were sinking and going to decay: They are not grieved for the affliction …
96556 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 886.8 (Matthew Henry)
… 6:7 ): Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and shall fall into all the miseries that attend captives; and the banquet of those that …
96557 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 886.12 (Matthew Henry)
… 6:7, 6:8. 2. They had abused their power to the wrong and oppression of many, whose injured cause the sovereign Judge would not only right, but revenge: You have turned …
96558 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 887.1 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Amos 7:10, 7:11 ) and does what he can to rid the country of him as a public nuisance, Amos 7:12, 7:13. 2. Amos justifies himself in what he did as a prophet ( Amos 7:14, 7:15 ) and …
96559 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 887.2 (Matthew Henry)
… , Amos 7:1, 7:4, 7:7. He showed him what was present, foreshowed him what was to come, gave him the knowledge both of what he did and of what he designed; for the Lord God …
96560 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 887.4 (Matthew Henry)
… , Amos 7:1. God formed these grasshoppers, not only as they were his creatures (and much of the wisdom and power of God appears in the formation of minute animals …