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Amos 1
Amos 1 — Overview
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Amos 1 — OverviewAmos 1 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleIn this chapter we have, I. The general title of this prophecy (ver.
1), with the general scope of it, ver. 2. II. God's particular
controversy with Syria (ver. 3-5), with Palestine (ver. 6-8), with Tyre
(ver.…Amos 1 — OverviewAmos 1 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThis book in the Hebrew Bibles is called "Sepher Amos", the Book of Amos; and, in the Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions, the Prophecy of Amos. This is not the same person with the father of Isaiah, as some have…Amos 1:1-2Amos 1:1-2 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleHere is, I. The general character of this prophecy. It consists of the
words which the prophet saw. Are words to be seen? Yes, God's words
are; the apostles speak of the word of life, which they had not only…Amos 1:1Amos 1:1 · The Pulpit CommentaryHeading. The words. So Jeremiah begins his prophecy (Jeremiah 1:1), and the writer of Ecclesiastes (Ecclesiastes 1:1). That the words am not those of Amos, but of Jehovah, is shown by the succeeding clause, "which he…Amos 1:1Amos 1:1 · The Pulpit CommentaryA voice from the sheepcotes.
The Jewish nation is almost seven centuries old. A wayward nonage had passed into a maturity incorrigibly perverse. Alarmed by prophetic thunders, and riven by the lightning bolts of…Amos 1:1Amos 1:1 · The Pulpit CommentaryAmos the herdsman.
There must be some special reason why this prophet putts upon record the employments in which he spent his earlier years, and from which he was called to assume the office of the Lord's messenger to…