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i. Amos expressed the same idea Jesus did in Matthew 5:23-24: Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
1. (Amos 5:1-3) Coming exile and captivity. Hear this word which I take up against you, a lamentation, O house of Israel: The virgin of Israel has fallen; She will rise no more. She lies forsaken on her land; There is no one to raise her up. For thus says the Lord GOD: “The city that goes out by a thousand.
Amos Chapter 5 is a poignant chapter from the Old Testament prophetic book of Amos. This chapter presents the divine lament over the impending destruction of Israel due to their persistent sinfulness and societal injustices. It stands as a powerful call for repentance, warning against false worship, and urging a genuine return to righteousness. 1.
Chapter 5. The scope of this chapter is to prosecute the exhortation given to Israel in the close of the foregoing chapter to prepare to meet their God; the prophet here tells them, I. What preparation they must make; they must "seek the Lord," and not seek any more to idols (v. 4-8); they must seek good, and love it (v. 14, 15).
Pulpit Commentary. Amos 5:1. Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel. Verse 1-ch. 6:14. - § 8. Third address: the prophet utters a lamentation over the fall of Israel. (Vers. 1-3.) He calls her to repentance, while he shows wherein she has declined from the right way.
What Amos condemned in the words of these verses (Amos 5:18-20) was not the public confidence in the coming of the day of the Lord, but Israel's perversion of the doctrine, lowering the conception of it to that of a military victory for the Israelites. Israel's view of that day has been described thus:
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1 People in Israel, listen to this song. 'This funeral song is about you. 2 'The virgin Israel has fallen. She will not get up any more. People have left her alone, lying on the ground. There is nobody to lift her up.'. 3 This is what the Lord the Ruler says: 'A city in Israel will send out a thousand men.
