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96561 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 887.5 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Amos 7:2 ); cease, I beseech thee, Amos 7:5. He that foretold the judgment in his preaching to the people, yet deprecated it in his intercessions for them. He is a prophet …
96562 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 887.6 (Matthew Henry)
… , Amos 7:2. He sees sin at the bottom of the trouble, and therefore concludes that the pardon of sin must be at the bottom of deliverance, and prays for that in the …
96563 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 887.7 (Matthew Henry)
… ? Amos 7:2. And it is repeated ( Amos 7:5 ) and yet no vain repetition. Christ, in his agony, prayed earnestly, saying the same words, again and again. [1.] It is Jacob that he …
96564 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 887.8 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Amos 7:3 ): The Lord repented for this. He did not change his mind, for he is one mind and who can turn him? But he changed is way, took another course, and determined …
96565 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 887.9 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Amos 7:7, 7:8 ) and an express prediction of utter ruin, Amos 7:9 .
96566 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 887.11 (Matthew Henry)
… , Amos 7:9. (1.) The body of the people shall be destroyed, with all those things that were their ornament and defence. They are here called Isaac as well as Israel …
96567 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 887.13 (Matthew Henry)
… , Amos 7:10, 7:11. The informer was Amaziah the priest of Bethel, the chief of the priests that ministered to the golden calf there, the president of Bethel (so some …
96568 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 887.14 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Amos 7:12, 7:13 ); when he could not gain his point with the king to have Amos imprisoned, banished, or put to death, or at least to have him frightened into silence …
96569 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 887.18 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Amos 7:14, 7:15 ); and that which he was sure would not only bear him out, but bind him to it, was that he had a divine warrant and commission for it: “ I was no prophet, nor …
96570 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 887.19 (Matthew Henry)
… , Amos 7:16, 7:17. Amaziah would not suffer Amos to preach at all, and therefore he is particularly ordered to preach against him: Now therefore hear thou the word …
96571 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 887.21 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Amos 7:11 ), but he stands to it, and repeats it; for the unbelief of man shall not make the word of God of no effect. The burden of the word of the Lord may be striven …
96572 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 888.4 (Matthew Henry)
… Amos 7:8 is here repeated as God’s determined resolution, I will not again pass by them any more; they shall not be connived at as they have been, nor the judgment …
96573 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 888.7 (Matthew Henry)
I. The heinousness of the sin they were guilty of; in short, they had the character of the unjust judge ( Luke 18:2 ) that neither feared God nor regarded man .
96574 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 888.8 (Matthew Henry)
… 21:7 ); they would rather have been any where else than about God’s altars. Note, Sabbath days and sabbath work are a burden to carnal hearts, that are always afraid …
96575 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 888.11 (Matthew Henry)
… 8:7 ), by himself, for he can swear by no greater; and who but he is the glory and magnificence of Jacob? He has sworn by those tokens of his presence with them, and his …
96576 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 889.1 (Matthew Henry)
… 9:7, 9:8 ); and yet it shall not be the utter ruin of their nation ( Amos 9:8 ), for a remnant of good people shall escape, Amos 9:9. But the wicked ones shall perish, Amos 9:10 …
96577 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 889.4 (Matthew Henry)
… 139:7-139:10 ) is here said of the extent of God’s power and justice. (1.) Hell itself, though it has its name in English from its being hilled, or covered over, or hidden …
96578 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 889.5 (Matthew Henry)
… , Psalms 7:13. They are all one army, one body, so closely are they connected, and so harmoniously and so much in concert do they act for the accomplishing of their …
96580 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 889.7 (Matthew Henry)
… Psalms 7:1-7:17 that was Cush (an Ethiopian, as some understand it) and yet a Benjamite. Those that by birth and profession are children of Israel, if they degenerate …