They are today before the Lord of God. With threshing instruments of iron; rakes, or flails, or harrows, or saws, or heavy wheels of iron; whichsoever of these were the instruments intended, it is most certain it was a very barbarous and cruel manner of using them. 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. 6 m Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? He's spoken about the Edomites. Thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of Edom, yea, for four, I will not reverse it: because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever. " It's no wonder that Amos' prophecies have been preserved for us. I can imagine an interview with Hazael. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. "Zion will be redeemed through justice"- refers to rectification of Yehuda's sin of abandoning the Torah. I will not pardon them. On garments w taken in pledge, and in the house of their God they drink.
With sharp threshing-boards of iron (or of basalt)] boards some 7 ft. long by 3 ft. broad, armed underneath with jagged stones, and sometimes with knives as well, which, being weighted and drawn over the corn by oxen, chop up the ears, and separate the grain from the chaff. And verse 13, "For three transgressions of the sons of Ammon and for four. " See more fully Wetzstein's very instructive essay on "Die Syrische Dreschtafel", in Bastian's Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 1873, p. 271 ff. For the prophet had no mission to "them;" he only declares to Israel the ground of the visitation which was to come upon them. So we read, Job 5:19, He shall deliver thee in six troubles; yea, in seven no evil shall touch thee: see the like phrase, Proverbs 6:16; Ecclesiastes 11:2; Micah 5:5.
The area has been calculated at 236 square geographical miles. There are several venues to which Amos' indictment of the nations apply in today's international society, but one need look no further than the holocaust of unborn babies in our own nation to find the same hideous evil doing described by Amos. For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four] Similarly Amos 1:6; Amos 1:9; Amos 1:11; Amos 1:13, Amos 2:1; Amos 2:4; Amos 2:6. In other words, there've been numerous cases of crimes against the people committed by Damascus but this one is the one that has exhausted his patience. Tomorrow's Reading: John 16-18. A representation of it is given by Smith, 'Dict. Strong's 1568: Gilead -- a region in Palestine, also the name of several Israelites. In the statement that the Lord makes in John chapter 5 in verse 27 when he says that all judgment has been committed to him. 7 Like warriors they charge; like soldiers they scale the wall.
When the Jews killed the Son, there, "came on" them "all the righteous bloodshed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias" Matthew 23:35-36; Luke 11:50-51. Literally, I will not reverse it. However, in the end, the Lord would save a remnant of the people. It is here by a synecdoche put for the whole kingdom of Syria. Gilead] the rough and rugged, but picturesque, hill-country, extending from the deep glen of the Jarmuk on the North, to the valley of Heshbon—or perhaps even to the Arnon—on the South. One finds it in the Psalms. We Southerners, we don't know whether we like him or not, but anyway General Sherman had some good sense. Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine plural construct. Verse 4, "For three transgressions of Judah and for four. "
The expression, "For should I not exact retribution for the fourth, " according to most commentaries, reflects the benevolent virtue of G-d passing over sins one by one, refraining from exacting punish immediately. Get alone with the Lord for as long as it takes, and truly cleanse your heart of all known sin. We don't have to get into numerology to understand this repeated statement in Amos. I will not revoke my decree of judgment. As he puts it in the seventh chapter of the fourteenth verse, "I am not a prophet, nor am I the son of a prophet; for I am a herdsman and a grower of sycamore figs.
So right worship and mercy go together, and if you separate one from the other, you kill them both. This took place at the conquest of the Israelitish land to the east of the Jordan by Hazael during the reign of Jehu (2 Kings 10:32-33, cf. Even the Chaldee and Syriac have taken בּקעת און as a proper name, and Ephraem Syrus speaks of it as "a place in the neighbourhood of Damascus, distinguished for idol-chapels. " We are studying Amos. So what Amos was saying is we're not talking about any one particular thing.
30, the fourth is, in each, something greater than the three preceding. But it supported a population far beyond what that space would maintain in Europe. So we mean simply that sin has touched all of our faculties. The more varied fortunes of his son Ben-hadad II., in his conflicts with Ahab (876–854), and Jehoram (853–842) are recounted in 1 Kings 20, 22; 2 Kings 5:1-2; 2 Kings 6:8 to 2 Kings 7:20 Verses 3-5. James 1:27 calls it pure religion to visit orphans and widows in their trouble. That's the message Ben-hadad wanted. All have sinned and are constantly coming short of the glory of God. I will make them into one nation in the land, upon the mountains of Israel and one king will be a king for them all (Yechezkel 37:19, 22). …2He said: "The LORD roars from Zion and raises His voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the summit of Carmel withers. "
Brenton Septuagint Translation. They all carried out their religious cultist, just as Israel did. Each time we are exposed to the Word of God, including the reading of this pamphlet, if the Holy Spirit brings to our minds those sins for which we should repent, we had better act immediately, or else we continue to add to our sins. Amos is delivering an indictment from God against the (now divided) nation of Israel. In the parallel clause תּומך שׁבם, the sceptre-holder, i. e., the ruler (either the king or his deputy), corresponds to yōshēbh (the inhabitant); and the thought expressed is, that both prince and people, both high and low, shall perish.
The fourth sin of Yehuda is for despising the Torah, by desecrating their destiny of "from Zion will the Torah come forth. " That's what total depravity means. How thankful we are for bold and faithful men of God. 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. 9 Thus says the L ord: because they delivered up a whole people to Edom, and did not remember the covenant of brotherhood. Please ensure your answer MEETS all our guidelines. Contemporary English Version. Of the three on the south side, one is led to the populous village Daraya, five miles distant; the other two supply the city, its suburbs, and gardens. God's people exceeded His patience in the wilderness, and He forbid that whole generation from entering into the Promised Land, save Joshua and Caleb. YouVersion uses cookies to personalize your experience.
And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child. The things that we do yesterday, the things that we did twenty years ago, they are today with the Lord God. Away [the punishment] thereof; Damascus was an ancient city; it was in the times of Abraham, ( Genesis 15:2). And as Elisha looked at him fixed his gaze on him this man Hazael, Hazael saw the eyes of the prophet, saw into him, and so he became ashamed. 13 " Behold, I will press you down in your place, as a cart full of sheaves presses down. 15 c The sun and the moon are darkened, 16 d The L ord roars from Zion, and d utters his voice from Jerusalem, e and the heavens and the earth quake. 11 u Hasten and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves there.
Its whole plain was intersected with canals, and tunneled below. 5 So q I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem. While I'm not recommending such actions, it was probably a lesson the child never forgot. The Ryf's text differs, and, based on it, the Rambam rules that there is a difference between an individual who is punished beginning with the third sin, whereas the entire congregation is not punished until the fourth sin. One may turn to a passage like 1 Timothy chapter 4 in verse 2 and read words like this, "By means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron". The Lord would bring a nation against them that would carry them away with hooks and bring them into captivity. New American Standard Bible. If we do not regularly remember and thank Him for His great redemption, we are likely to fall into the sins of the pagans around us, just like ancient Israel did.
השׁיב signifies to turn, i. e., to make a thing go back, to withdraw it, as in Numbers 23:20; Isaiah 43:13. I will not turn it back, —the object denoted by the pronoun being, as is sometimes the case in Hebrew poetry, understood from the context: comp. "And those who return to her through righteousness" refers to the sin of stealing and oppressing committed by the Kingdom of Israel. Both instruments are alluded to in the O. T. : the drag (or board), under the same name ḥârûtz (properly something sharpened) which it has in Amos 1:3, in Isaiah 28:27, "For not with a sharp threshing-board is Nigella-seed [Tristram, N. H. B.