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1. (Amos 4:1) Amos describes the indulgent women of Israel. “Bring wine, let us drink!”. a. You cows of Bashan: Amos wasn’t trained as a prophet, he was a simple herdsman and farmer. When he wanted to get the point across to the indulgent women of Israel, he called them fat cows. The area of Bashan — in the northern part of Israel, the ...
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Sep 26, 2024 · The people of Amos’s day claimed to follow God with their words (see Amos 5:14), but their actions and devotions revealed a different truth. Wholehearted pursuit is the key to life with God: “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart” (Jeremiah 29:13; see also Deuteronomy 4:27–29).
Feb 24, 2003 · In chapter 5, God lists a seventh calamity through Amos: captivity (Amos 5:3), a punishment mentioned in Amos 4:2-3 and made clearer in Amos 6:7. In Amos 5:3, we are told that of those who go into captivity, only a tenth will survive (compare Isaiah 6:11-13, Living Bible). God explains that He is the ultimate power to whom Israel should look ...
Amos 5:4 - Amos 5:15. The reign of Jeroboam II, in which Amos prophesied, was a period of great prosperity and of great corruption. Amos, born in the Southern Kingdom, and accustomed to the simple life of a shepherd, blazed up in indignation at the signs of misused wealth and selfish luxury that he saw everywhere, in what was to him almost a ...
Verse 6. Amos, as well as the Lord (Amos 5:4), invited the Israelites to seek the Lord by doing good and refraining from evil so they might live (cf. Amos 5:14-15). The alternative would be God’s judgment breaking forth and unquenchably consuming the whole house of Joseph (i.e., the Northern Kingdom, whose main tribe was Ephraim, a son of ...
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.
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The Imminent Judgment (Amos 4:12-13) The chapter concludes with God's stern declaration of imminent judgment. Amos reminds the Israelites of God's mighty power, urging them to prepare to meet their God who controls the forces of nature and has power over life and death. Amos 4 is a stern chapter that underscores the prophetic warnings delivered ...