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Amos 4:6-11

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Israel Has Not Returned to the Lord

6 "I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and 1lack of bread in all your places, 2yet you did not return to me," declares the LORD.
7 "I also 3withheld the rain from you when there were yet three months to the harvest; 4I would send rain on one city, and send no rain on another city; one field would have rain, and the field on which it did not rain would wither;
8 so two or three cities 5would wander to another city to drink water, and would not be satisfied; 6yet you did not return to me," declares the LORD.
9 7"I struck you with blight and mildew; your many gardens and your vineyards, your fig trees and your olive trees 8the locust devoured; 9yet you did not return to me," declares the LORD.
10 "I sent among you a pestilence 10after the manner of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, and 11carried away your horses,[a] and 12I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils; 13yet you did not return to me," declares the LORD.
11 "I overthrew some of you, 14as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were 15as a brand[b] plucked out of the burning; 16yet you did not return to me," declares the LORD.
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Amos 4:6-11 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO AMOS 4

In this chapter, the great ones, or the people of Israel, are threatened with calamities for their oppression of the poor, Am 4:1-3; and in an ironic manner are reproved for their idolatry, Am 4:4,5; then follows an enumeration of several judgments that had been upon them, yet had had no effect on them, to bring them to repentance, nor even mercies, Am 4:6-11; and notwithstanding all this, in a wonderful gracious manner, they are called upon to prepare to meet their God, who is described by his power, greatness, and goodness, Am 4:12,13.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 16

  • 1. [Deuteronomy 28:57; Lamentations 2:12]
  • 2. Jeremiah 15:7; Haggai 2:17
  • 3. Jeremiah 3:3; [Joel 2:23]
  • 4. [Exodus 9:26]
  • 5. [Amos 8:12]
  • 6. [See ver. 6 above]
  • 7. Deuteronomy 28:22; Haggai 2:17
  • 8. Joel 1:4
  • 9. [See ver. 6 above]
  • 10. Deuteronomy 28:27, 60; [Exodus 12:29; Psalms 78:50; Isaiah 10:24, 26]
  • 11. 2 Kings 13:7
  • 12. [Joel 2:20]
  • 13. [See ver. 6 above]
  • 14. [Isaiah 13:19]
  • 15. Zechariah 3:2; [Jude 23]
  • 16. [See ver. 6 above]

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Hebrew along with the captivity of your horses
  • [b]. That is, a burning stick
The English Standard Version is published with the permission of Good News Publishers.