Lectionary Calendar
Thursday, November 21st, 2024
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Bible Commentaries
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments Sutcliffe's Commentary
Chapter 1
Judgment on Surrounding Nations; Prophecy Against Israel.Chapter 2
Judgment on Judah and Israel; Social Injustices.Chapter 3
Israel's Sin and the Certainty of Judgment.Chapter 4
Call to Repentance; Warnings Ignored.Chapter 5
Call to Seek God; Impending Judgment and Hope.Chapter 6
Woe to the Complacent; Israel's Downfall.Chapter 7
Visions of Judgment; Amos's Confrontation with Amaziah.Chapter 8
Vision of the Basket of Summer Fruit; Israel's Fate.Chapter 9
Restoration of Israel; Judgment on Nations.
Judgment on Surrounding Nations; Prophecy Against Israel.Chapter 2
Judgment on Judah and Israel; Social Injustices.Chapter 3
Israel's Sin and the Certainty of Judgment.Chapter 4
Call to Repentance; Warnings Ignored.Chapter 5
Call to Seek God; Impending Judgment and Hope.Chapter 6
Woe to the Complacent; Israel's Downfall.Chapter 7
Visions of Judgment; Amos's Confrontation with Amaziah.Chapter 8
Vision of the Basket of Summer Fruit; Israel's Fate.Chapter 9
Restoration of Israel; Judgment on Nations.
- Amos
by Joseph Sutcliffe
THE BOOK OF AMOS.
This prophet was divinely inspired, and forced away from his rustic duties at once to prophesy in Bethel, and attack the Lord’s enemies in the grand fort. Full of the divine impetus, he joins the catholic cry of all the prophets, against the surrounding nations, and against Samaria, the death of whose king, Zachariah, he announced, and the Assyrian invasion by Pul. From the rustic habits of his early years we might expect a plain and humble style. The contrary however is the case; he yields to none in the force of argument, and the luxury of figurative language. His powers as a rhetor are great, and his bold and impressive metaphors shed a kind of glory and rekindling brilliancy over his whole book.
