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John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Amos
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 55,208 words · 117 reading sections
Amos 5:8
Amos 5:8 Ver. 8. [Seek him] that maketh the seven stars,.... Which some connect with the preceding words, without a supplement, "they leave righteousness on the ground, who maketh the seven stars"; understanding it of Christ, the Lord our righteousness, who is made unto us righteousness, whom the Jews rejected and des…
555 wordsSECTION 62Amos 5:9
Amos 5:9 Ver. 9. That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong,.... Such as have been taken by an enemy, who have been stripped of their armour, and spoiled of all their goods and substance, and have no friends nor allies, nor anything to help themselves with; the Lord can supply them with strength, furnish them w…
292 wordsSECTION 63Amos 5:10
Amos 5:10 Ver. 10. They hate him that rebuketh in the gate,.... Openly and publicly in the courts of judicature: wicked judges hated the prophets of the Lord, such as Amos, who faithfully reproved them for the perversion of justice, even when they were upon the bench: or the people were so corrupt and degenerate, that…
140 wordsSECTION 64Amos 5:11
Amos 5:11 Ver. 11. Forasmuch therefore as your treading [is] upon the poor,.... This seems to be spoken to the princes, judges, and civil magistrates, as Kimchi observes; who oppressed the poor and needy, and crushed them to the ground, trampled upon them, stripped them of the little substance they had, and left them …
291 wordsSECTION 65Amos 5:12
Amos 5:12 Ver. 12. For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins,.... Their sins were numerous, and of the first magnitude, attended with very heavy aggravations; and these with all their circumstances were well known to the omniscient God, and therefore he determined to punish them as he had threatened…
203 wordsSECTION 66Amos 5:13
Amos 5:13 Ver. 13. Therefore the prudent shall keep silence at that time,.... Not the prophets of the Lord, whose business it was at all times to reprove, and not hold their peace, let the consequence be what it would; though the Targum calls them teachers; but private persons, whose wisdom it would be to say nothing;…
163 wordsSECTION 67Amos 5:14
Amos 5:14 Ver. 14. Seek good, and not evil,.... Seek not unto, or after, evil persons and evil things; not the company and conversation of evil men, which is infectious and dangerous; nor anything that is evil, or has the appearance of it, especially the evil of evils, sin; which is hateful to God, contrary to his nat…
461 wordsSECTION 68Amos 5:15
Amos 5:15 Ver. 15. Hate the evil, and love the good,.... Evil is not only not to be sought, but to be hated, especially the evil of sin, because of its evil nature, and pernicious effects and consequences; and, if it was for no other reason but because it is hateful and abominable unto God, therefore they that love hi…
425 wordsSECTION 69Amos 5:16
Amos 5:16 Ver. 16. Therefore the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus,.... The connection of these words is not with those that immediately precede, but with the whole context; seeing neither promises nor threats, exhortations, good advice, and intimations of grace and mercy, had no effect, at least upon the g…
3,489 wordsSECTION 70Amos 6:1
Amos 6:1 INTRODUCTION TO AMOS 6 This chapter seems to be directed both to the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, and the ten tribes of Israel, under the names of Zion and Samaria, and to the principal men in both; who are reproved and threatened for their carnal security and self-confidence, being in no fear of the ev…
1,210 wordsSECTION 71Amos 6:2
Amos 6:2 Ver. 2. Pass ye unto Calneh, and see,.... What is become of that city, which was in the land of Shinar, an ancient city, as early as the days of Nimrod, and built by him, and was with others the beginning of his kingdom, Ge 10:10; it belonged to Babylon, and is by Jarchi here interpreted by it, being put for …
786 wordsSECTION 72Amos 6:3
Amos 6:3 Ver. 3. Ye that put far away the evil day,.... The day of Israel's captivity, threatened by, the Lord, and prophesied of by the prophets; by this prophet, and by Hoshea and others: this they endeavoured to put out of their minds and thoughts, and supposed it to be at a great distance, yea, hoped it never woul…
308 wordsSECTION 73Amos 6:4
Amos 6:4 Ver. 4. That lie upon beds of ivory,.... That were made of it, or inlaid with it, or covered with it, as the Targum; nor was it improbable that these were made wholly of ivory, for such beds we read of: Timaeus says {r}, the Agrigentines had beds entirely made of ivory; and Horace {s} also speaks of such beds…
461 wordsSECTION 74Amos 6:5
Amos 6:5 Ver. 5. That chant to the sound of the viol,.... Or psaltery; an instrument of twelve cords, and that gave twelve sounds, as Josephus {x} says, being stricken with the fingers; and to these sounds these men chanted or quivered, made like sounds with their voice, which they raised higher or lower, according to…
200 wordsSECTION 75Amos 6:6
Amos 6:6 Ver. 6. That drink wine in bowls,.... Not in small cups or glasses, but in large bowls, that they might drink freely, even to drunkenness; hence we read of the drunkards of Ephraim, or the ten tribes, Isa 28:1; or "drink in bowls of wine"; which is much to the: same sense. The Targum is, "that drink wine in …
376 wordsSECTION 76Amos 6:7
Amos 6:7 Ver. 7. Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive,.... That is, these men, who were the first and chief in the nation, who would not believe the day of Israel's captivity would ever come; or, however, had very distant apprehensions of it; but indulged and gratified their several sense…
333 wordsSECTION 77Amos 6:8
Amos 6:8 Ver. 8. The Lord God hath sworn by himself,.... Because he could swear by no greater, Heb 6:13; which shows the importance and certainty of the thing sworn to, and is as follows: saith the Lord, the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob; or, "the pride of Jacob" {c}; of Israel, of the ten tribes, rem…
274 wordsSECTION 78Amos 6:9
Amos 6:9 Ver. 9. And it shall come to pass,.... When the city is delivered up and taken:if there remain; who are not carried captive, or destroyed by the sword:ten men in one house; that is, many, a certain number for an uncertain:that they shall die; either with famine, or by the pestilence, though they have escaped …
2,586 wordsSECTION 79Amos 7:1
Amos 7:1 INTRODUCTION TO AMOS 7 In this and the two following chapters are the visions of Amos, in number five; three of which are contained in this chapter, and with which it begins. The first is of the grasshoppers or locusts eating up the later grass of the land, which are stopped at the intercession of the prophe…
1,057 wordsSECTION 80Amos 7:2
Amos 7:2 Ver. 2. And it came to pass, [that] when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land,.... That is, the grasshoppers or locusts; when in the vision it seemed to the prophet that almost all the grass of the land was eaten up, and they were going to seize upon the corn, and other fruits of the earth: th…
684 wordsSECTION 81Amos 7:3
Amos 7:3 Ver. 3. The Lord repented for this,.... He heard the prayer of the prophet, and at his intercession averted, the threatened judgment; thus the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much, Jas 5:16; this is spoken after the manner of men; as men, when they repent of a thing, desist from it, so the …
138 wordsSECTION 82Amos 7:4
Amos 7:4 Ver. 4. Thus hath the Lord showed unto me,.... Another vision after this manner: and, behold, the Lord God called to contend by fire; gave out that he would have a controversy with his people Israel, and proclaimed the time when he would try the cause with them, and that by fire: or he called his family, as …
281 wordsSECTION 83Amos 7:5
Amos 7:5 Ver. 5. Then said I, O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee,.... From destroying the land; suffer not this calamity to proceed any further; using the same argument as before: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he [is] small; See Gill on "Am 7:2".…
48 wordsSECTION 84Amos 7:6
Amos 7:6 Ver. 6. The Lord repented for this,.... He heard the prophet's prayer, and desisted from going on with the threatened destruction: this also shall not be, saith the Lord God; the whole land shall not be destroyed, only a part of it carried captive.…
47 wordsSECTION 85Amos 7:7
Amos 7:7 Ver. 7. Thus he showed me,.... A third vision, which was in the following manner: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall [made] by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand: this "wall" was the people of Israel, who were built up as a wall, firm and strong; and so stood against their enemies, while supporte…
181 wordsSECTION 86Amos 7:8
Amos 7:8 Ver. 8. And the Lord said unto me, Amos, what seest thou?.... This question was put to him, the rather, since he was silent, and did not upon this vision, as the former, make any supplication to the Lord; as also, because this vision portended something of moment and importance, which he would have the prophe…
373 wordsSECTION 87Amos 7:9
Amos 7:9 Ver. 9. And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate,.... Such as the ten tribes of Israel, who descended from Isaac, built at Beersheba, in imitation of Isaac, and pleading his example; who worshipped there, though not idols, as they, but the true God; and in commemoration of his being bound upon an altar …
176 wordsSECTION 88Amos 7:10
Amos 7:10 Ver. 10. Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel,.... The Targum calls him the prince or president of Bethel; and the word used signifies both a prince and a priest; and very probably this man had the care of the civil as well as religious matters in Bethel. Aben Ezra styles him the priest of Baal; he was one that…
497 wordsSECTION 89Amos 7:11
Amos 7:11 Ver. 11. For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword,.... Which was not saying truth; for Amos said not that Jeroboam should die by the sword, but that God would raise up the sword against his house or family; nor did Jeroboam die by the sword, but his son Zachariah did: and Israel shall surely be …
122 wordsSECTION 90Amos 7:12
Amos 7:12 Ver. 12. Also Amaziah said unto Amos,.... Either at the same time; or, it may be, after he had waited for the king's answer, and received none; or what did not come up to his expectations and wishes. We have no account of any answer the king returned; who either gave no heed to the representations of the pri…
293 wordsSECTION 91Amos 7:13
Amos 7:13 Ver. 13. But prophesy not again any more at Bethel,.... He might prophesy any where, if he did not there, for what the priest cared, that so his honour and interest were not hurt. The reasons he gave were, for it [is] the king's chapel; or "sanctuary" {i}; where a temple was built for the idol calf, and whe…
209 wordsSECTION 92Amos 7:14
Amos 7:14 Ver. 14. Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah,.... With much freedom, boldness, and intrepidity, and yet with modesty and humility; not at all moved by his frowns or his flattery: I [was] no prophet, neither [was] I a prophet's son: he was not a prophet originally, or from his youth, as Kimchi; he was no…
1,812 wordsSECTION 93Amos 8:1
Amos 8:1 INTRODUCTION TO AMOS 8 In this chapter a fourth vision is delivered, the vision of a "basket of summer fruit"; signifying the destruction of the ten tribes, for which they were ripe, and which would quickly come upon them, Am 8:1; the rich are reproved for their oppression of the poor, their covetousness and…
250 wordsSECTION 94Amos 8:2
Amos 8:2 Ver. 2. And he said, Amos, what seest thou?.... To quicken his attention, who might disregard it as a common thing; and in order to lead him into the design of it, and show him what it was an emblem of: and I said, a basket of summer fruit; some render it "a hook" {w}, such as they pull down branches with to…
262 wordsSECTION 95Amos 8:3
Amos 8:3 Ver. 3. And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God,.... Not the songs sung by the Levites in the temple of Jerusalem, this prophecy respects the ten tribes only; but those in imitation of them, sung in the temple at Bethel, and other idol temples; or profane songs in the pal…
277 wordsSECTION 96Amos 8:4
Amos 8:4 Ver. 4. Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy,.... Like a man that pants after a draught of water when thirsty; and, when he has got it, greedily swallows it down at one gulp; so these rich men swallowed up the poor, their labours, gains, and profits, and persons too; got all into their own hands, and mad…
177 wordsSECTION 97Amos 8:5
Amos 8:5 Ver. 5. Saying, when will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn?.... The first day of every month, on which it was forbid to sell any thing, or do any worldly business, being appointed and used for religious service; see 2Ki 4:23; and which these carnal earthly minded men were weary of, and wanted to ha…
559 wordsSECTION 98Amos 8:6
Amos 8:6 Ver. 6. That we may buy the poor for silver,.... Thus making them pay dear for their provisions, and using them in this fraudulent manner, by which they would not be able to support themselves and their families; they might purchase them and theirs for slaves, at so small a price as a piece of silver, or a si…
211 wordsSECTION 99Amos 8:7
Amos 8:7 Ver. 7. The Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob,.... Not by the ark, as R. Japhet; nor by the temple, as Kimchi; but by himself; which sense Kimchi also mentions, and Aben Ezra; the God of Jacob and his glory, the most excellent of all Jacob's enjoyments, and of whom he had reason to boast and glory; s…
123 wordsSECTION 100Amos 8:8
Amos 8:8 Ver. 8. Shall not the land tremble for this,.... For this wickedness committed, in using the poor with so much inhumanity? may not an earthquake be expected? and which happened two years after Amos began to prophesy, Am 1:1; or that the earth should gape and swallow up these men alive, guilty of such enormiti…
1,123 wordsSECTION 101Amos 8:9
Amos 8:9 Ver. 9. And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God,.... When this deluge and desolation of the land shall be, now spoken of: that I will cause the sun to go down at noon: or to he so dark as if it was set; as at the time of our Lord's crucifixion, to which many of the ancient fathers refer thi…
222 wordsSECTION 102Amos 8:10
Amos 8:10 Ver. 10. And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation,.... Either their religious feasts, the feasts of pentecost, tabernacles, and passover; at which three feasts there were eclipses of the sun, a few years after this prophecy of Amos, as Bishop Usher {q} observes: the firs…
416 wordsSECTION 103Amos 8:11
Amos 8:11 Ver. 11. Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God,.... Which Kimchi interprets of all the days of the second house or temple after Malachi, when prophecy ceased; but it rather has respect to the time of Shalmaneser's carrying captive the ten tribes, when they had no more prophets nor prophecy among them, or…
624 wordsSECTION 104Amos 8:12
Amos 8:12 Ver. 12. And they shall wander from sea to sea,.... From the sea of Tiberias, or Galilee; or from the Dead sea, the lake Asphaltites; or from the Red sea, which was to the south of the land of Israel, to the great sea, which is to the west, as Aben Ezra: so the Targum, "from the sea to the west;'' that is,…
264 wordsSECTION 105Amos 8:13
Amos 8:13 Ver. 13. In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. After the word, for want of that grain and wine, which make young men and maids cheerful, Zec 9:17; but, being destitute of them, should be covered with sorrow, overwhelmed with grief, and ready to sink and die away. These, according…
125 wordsSECTION 106Amos 8:14
Amos 8:14 Ver. 14. They that swear by the sin of Samaria,.... The calf at Bethel, which was near Samaria, and which the Samaritans worshipped; and was set up by their kings, and the worship of it encouraged by their example, and which is called the calf of Samaria, Ho 8:5; the making of it was the effect of sin, and t…
426 wordsSECTION 107Amos 9:1
Amos 9:1 INTRODUCTION TO AMOS 9 This chapter contains the fifth and last vision the prophet saw; which represents the certain desolation of the land, city, and temple, and the slaughter of all sorts of persons, high and low, none should escape it, Am 9:1; be they where they would, they should be found out, whether in…
724 wordsSECTION 108Amos 9:2
Amos 9:2 Ver. 2. Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them,.... That is, they that endeavour to make their escape from their enemies, though they seek for places of the greatest secrecy and privacy; not hell, the place of the damned; nor the grave, the repository of the dead; neither of which they ch…
197 wordsSECTION 109Amos 9:3
Amos 9:3 Ver. 3. And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel,.... One of the highest mountains in the land of Israel; in the woods upon it, and caves in it: I will search and take them out from thence: by directing their enemies where to find them: so the Targum, "if they think to be hid in the tops of the …
378 wordsSECTION 110Amos 9:4
Amos 9:4 Ver. 4. And though they go into captivity before their enemies,.... Alluding to the manner in which captives are led, being put before their enemies, and so carried in triumph; see La 1:5; though some think this refers to their going voluntarily into a foreign country, in order to escape danger, as Johanan th…
214 wordsSECTION 111Amos 9:5
Amos 9:5 Ver. 5. And the Lord God of hosts [is] he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt,.... Which is another reason why it is impossible to escape the hands of a sin revenging God, because he is omnipotent as well as omniscient; he is the Lord of all the armies above and below; and if he but touch the land, any …
155 wordsSECTION 112Amos 9:6
Amos 9:6 Ver. 6. [It is] he that buildeth his stories in the heaven,.... The three elements, according to Aben Ezra, fire, air, and water; the orbs, as Kimchi, one above another; a word near akin to this is rendered "his chambers", which are the clouds, Ps 104:3; perhaps the heaven, and the heaven of heavens, which ar…
501 wordsSECTION 113Amos 9:7
Amos 9:7 Ver. 7. [Are] ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the Lord,.... And therefore had no reason to think they should be delivered because they were the children of Israel, of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; since they were no more to God than the children of the Ethiopians, having…
1,361 wordsSECTION 114Amos 9:8
Amos 9:8 Ver. 8. Behold, the eyes of the Lord God [are] upon the sinful kingdom,.... God is omniscient, and his eyes are everywhere, and upon all persons, good and bad, and upon all kingdoms, especially upon a sinful nation: "the sinning kingdom" {n}, or "the kingdom of sin" {o}, as it may be rendered; that is addicte…
287 wordsSECTION 115Amos 9:9
Amos 9:9 Ver. 9. For, lo, I will command,.... What follows; which is expressive of afflictive and trying dispensations of Providence, which are according to the will of God, by his appointment and order, and overruled for his glory, and the good of his people: and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, as…
618 wordsSECTION 116Amos 9:10
Amos 9:10 Ver. 10. All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword,.... By the sword of the Assyrians, and of others, into whose countries they shall flee for shelter, Am 9:1; even all such who are notorious sinners, abandoned to their lusts, obstinate and incorrigible; live in sin, and continue therein; repent no…
201 wordsSECTION 117Amos 9:11
Amos 9:11 Ver. 11. In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen,.... Not in the day of Israel's ruin, but in the famous Gospel day, so often spoken of by the prophets; and this prophecy is referred to the times of the Messiah by the ancient {q} Jews; and one of the names they give him is taken fr…
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