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Amos 5:1

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Thompson Chain Reference - Joy-Sorrow;   Lamentations;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Funeral;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ahab;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Amos;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Amos (1);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Captivity;   Memra;  

Parallel Translations

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Contextual Overview

1 Heare ye this worde whiche I lift vp vpon you, [euen] a lamentation of the house of Israel. 2 The virgin Israel is fallen, & shall no more rise: she is left vpon her lande, and there is none to rayse her vp. 3 For thus sayth the Lorde God, The citie which went out by a thousand, shall leaue an hundreth, & that whiche went foorth by an hundreth, shall leaue ten, to the house of Israel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Hear: Amos 3:1, Amos 4:1

I take: Amos 5:16, Jeremiah 7:29, Jeremiah 9:10, Jeremiah 9:17, Jeremiah 9:20, Ezekiel 19:1, Ezekiel 19:14, Ezekiel 26:17, Ezekiel 27:2, Ezekiel 27:27-32, Ezekiel 28:12, Ezekiel 32:2, Ezekiel 32:16, Micah 2:4

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 18:11 - the king Joel 1:2 - Hear Zephaniah 2:5 - the word

Cross-References

Genesis 2:4
These are the generations of the heauens and of the earth when they were created, in the day when the Lord God made the earth and the heauens.
Genesis 5:26
And agayne Methusalah lyued after he begat Lamech seue hundreth eightie and two yeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
Genesis 5:27
And all the dayes of Methuselah were nine hundreth sixtie & nine yeres, and he dyed.
Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah: Noah [was] a iust man, and perfect in his generations: And Noah walked with God.
Genesis 10:1
These are the generations of the sonnes of Noah, Sem, Ham, and Iapheth: and vnto them were chyldren borne after the fludde.
1 Chronicles 1:1
Adam, Seth, Enos.
Ecclesiastes 7:29
Lo this onlye haue I founde, that God made man iust and right: but they sought many inuentions.
Ecclesiastes 12:1
Remember thy maker the sooner in thy youth, or euer the dayes of aduersitie come, and or the yeres drawe nye when thou shalt say, I haue not pleasure in them:
Matthew 1:1
This is the booke of the generation of Iesus Christ, the sonne of Dauid, the sonne of Abraham.
1 Corinthians 11:7
A man ought not to couer his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glorie of God: But the woman is the glorie of the man:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Hear ye the word which I take up against you,.... And which was not his own word, but the word of the Lord; and which he took up, by his direction as a heavy burden as some prophecies are called, and this was; and which, though against them, a reproof for their sins, and denunciation of punishment for them, yet was to be heard; for every word of God is pure, and to be hearkened to, whether for us or against us; since the whole is profitable, either for doctrine and instruction in righteousness, or for reproof and correction. It may be rendered, "which I take up concerning you", or "over you" z:

[even] a lamentation, O house of Israel; a mournful ditty, an elegiac song over the house of Israel, now expiring, and as it were dead. This word was like Ezekiel's roll, in which were written "lamentation, and mourning, and woe", Ezekiel 2:10; full of mournful matter, misery, and distress, as follows:

z עליכם "de vobis", Tigurine version, Mercerus, Piscator, Cocceius; "super vos", Pagninus, Montanus; "pro vobis", Vatablus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In order to impress Israel the more, Amos begins this his third appeal by a “dirge” over its destruction, mourning over those who were full of joy, and thought themselves safe and enviable. As if a living man, in the midst of his pride and luxury and buoyant recklessness of heart, could see his own funeral procession, and hear, as it were, over himself the “earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.” It would give solemn thoughts, even though he should impatiently put them from him. So must it to Israel, when after the tide of victories of Jeroboam II, Amos said, “Hear this word which I am lifting up,” as a heavy weight, to cast it down “against” or “upon you,” a funeral “dirge,” O house of Israel. Human greatness is so unstable, human strength so fleeting, that the prophet of decay finds a response in man’s own conscience, however he may silence or resent it. He would not resent it, unless he felt its force.

Dionysius: “Amos, an Israelite, mourneth over Israel, as Samuel did over Saul 1 Samuel 15:35, or as Isaiah says, “I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people” Isaiah 22:4; images of Him who wept over Jerusalem.” “So are they bewailed, who know not why they are bewailed, the more miserable, because they know not their own misery.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER V

This chapter opens with a tender and pathetic lamentation, in

the style of a funeral song, over the house of Israel, 1, 2.

The prophet then glances at the awful threatening denounced

against them, 3;

earnestly exhorting them to renounce their idols, and seek

Jehovah, of whom he gives a very magnificent description, 4-9.

He then reproves their injustice and oppression with great

warmth and indignation; exhorts them again to repentance; and

enforces his exhortation with the most awful threatenings,

delivered with great majesty and authority, and in images full

of beauty and grandeur, 10-24.

The chapter concludes with observing that their idolatry was

of long standing, that they increased the national guilt, by

adding to the sins of their fathers; and that their punishment,

therefore, should be great in proportion, 25-27.

Formerly numbers of them were brought captive to Damascus, 2 Kings 10:32-33;

but now they must go beyond it to Assyria, 2 Kings 15:29; 2 Kings 17:6.

NOTES ON CHAP. V

Verse Amos 5:1. Hear ye this word — Attend to this doleful song which I make for the house of Israel.


 
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