The judgment of the Lord: Continuing where we left off form the last chapter, Moab is judged for burning the king of Edom and the wrath of the Lord is prophesied to be poured out on them. Four, אַרְבָּעָ֖ה ('ar·bā·'āh). They treated the people of Gilead with savage cruelty. There is a messenger formula each begins, "Thus says the Lord. " We read in verse 3 of chapter 1, "Thus says the LORD, "For three transgressions of Damascus and for four I will not revoke its punishment, " [that is the punishment which I have determined. ] 2 Kings 10:32, 33 In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel; …. So the Targum, "I will not pardon them. Sadly, much of what we see as worship today is nothing more than prideful entertainment designed to attract a crowd, rather than humbling ourselves before a holy God and giving Him the glory due His holy name, and therefore, it is adding to our limit of sin. In the book of Amos, the fourth sin among God's people was their false worship. He got one of those nice wonderful fluffy towels that you buy at Neiman Marcus and he's thought well the easiest way to suffocate him is to wet it. There is danger anytime Scripture is used for "private interpretation" as Peter clearly explained was not supposed to happen (2 Peter 1:20), so we must look at these passages in Amos and ask, where else in Scripture can we look to gain more understanding. Benhadad is generally regarded as his son; but the plural "palaces" leads us rather to think of both the first and second Benhadad, and this is favoured by the circumstance that it was only during his father's reign that Benhadad II oppressed Israel, whereas after his death, and when he himself ascended the throne, the conquered provinces were wrested from him by Joash king of Israel (2 Kings 13:22-25). Let all the men of war draw near; let them come up.
The Syrians (if the present passage is to be understood literally) had during these wars dragged instruments of torture, such as are here alluded to, over their Israelitish prisoners. Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Damascus, and for four I will not convert it: because they have thrashed Galaad with iron wains. They are carried along the precipitous banks of the ravine, being in some places tunnelled in the solid rock. He's spoken about the Edomites. שְׁלֹשָׁה֙ (šə·lō·šāh). Amos 1:3 Bible Apps. Now, our audience changes from time to time and especially when we talk about things like this, the audience changes. 1 6 You have sold q the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border. On the surface, it appeared they were worshipping the One True God, but in reality, they were worshipping a concept of God they had fashioned and designed for themselves. It was at that time probably a subordinate power, whether on the ground of the personal eminence of Hadadezer king of Zobah, or any other. In A. D. 33, Jesus said to Jerusalem, " Your house is left to you desolate. " The fourth sin of Israel was a moral sin of corruption and stealing from the poor which is a desecration of the purpose of Yosef (as the representative of the Israel kingdom), to spread kindness and to treat one's fellow properly.
P. 150 f. ; Smith, D. 2 I. Right worship is the tree. This historical account is followed by a description of God's pronouncement of judgment on five pagan nations—Syria, Philistia, Phoenicia, Edom, and Ammon. Their hearts may have been sincere as they went through the rituals and the ceremonies, but they had no intentions of allowing those events to change their hearts, and consequently, they added to their sins with their false worship.
11 And I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for c Nazirites. They beat down my people in Gilead as grain is threshed with iron sledges. Three transgressions represented God's legal limit for their sins. Depravity is the corruption of the total human nature not the total corruption of human nature. Read the Bible, discover plans, and seek God every day. You can imagine how people might have said, but we didn't have what Israel had Moses. It's part of the image of God. Now, let us remember the reason he speaks of Damascus here is Damascus was the capital of Syria, the capital of Aram, a city-state to the northeast of Israel. This is the burden against Damascus: "Behold, Damascus is no longer a city; it has become a heap of ruins. What the mother knew, but the child didn't, a heavy snowfall had occurred during the night, and he simply descended into a massive mound of snow just outside the window. Declares the Lord G od, a the God of hosts, 14 " that on the day I punish Israel for his transgressions, b I will punish the altars of Bethel, and c the horns of the altar shall be cut off. They are religious people. Chârūts ( equals chârı̄ts, 2 Samuel 12:31), lit., sharpened, is a poetical term applied to the threshing-roller, or threshing-cart (mōrag chârūts, Isaiah 41:15).
The bones of the king of Edom. It lay in the midst of its plain, a high table-land of rich cultivation, whose breadth, from Anti-libanus eastward, was about half a degree. The things that we do yesterday, the things that we did twenty years ago, they are today with the Lord God. Amos does not expressly say what; but he means the sentence or judgment (comp. Gods create people in their own image and false gods create people in their image. Ben-hadad I., king of Damascus, was in alliance first with Baasha, king of Israel, then with Asa, king of Judah (1 Kings 15:18-20): his successes against Israel, under Omri (b. Man's greatest sin, and yet perhaps the most subtle of all sins, is his refusal to honor God as God, which is the sin of pride. These things - Job says, "worketh God twice and thrice with man, to bring back his soul from the pit" Job 33:29. Because they, the Syrians, comprised in the word Damascus, by a synecdoche, have threshed; first gathered, (as husbandmen gather sheafs into a floor, ) next trod them under foot, beat them small, i. with utmost cruelty destroyed the persons, towns, and cities. Background: Though the book of Amos is third among the 12 minor prophets, his ministry was likely one of the first of the minor prophets.
F) If the Syrians will not be spared for committing this cruelty against one city, it is not possible that Israel would escape punishment, which has committed so many and such grievous sins against God and man. As a matter of fact, he had appeared to many of them, and he had performed mighty miracles on their behalf. Gilead is here put for all the country east of Jordan (Joshua 22:9). Every sin we have ever committed was an affront to our Holy God and another slap in the face to the One who gave His life that we might be forgiven of our sins. The Old Testament prophets wrote some of the most rhetorically powerful literature in Scripture.
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