Amos 4:4-13

4 "Enter Bethel and transgress; In Gilgal multiply transgression! ¹Bring your sacrifices every morning, Your tithes every three days.

5 "Offer a ²thank offering also from that which is leavened, And proclaim ³freewill offerings, make them known. For so you ⁴love to do, you sons of Israel," Declares the Lord GOD.

6 "But I gave you also ⁵cleanness of teeth in all your cities And lack of bread in all your places, Yet you have ⁶not returned to Me," declares the LORD.

7 "Furthermore, I ⁷withheld the rain from you While there were still three months until harvest. Then I would send rain on one city And on ⁸another city I would not send rain; One part would be rained on, While the part not rained on would dry up.

8 "So two or three cities would stagger to another city to drink ⁹water, But would ¹⁰not be satisfied; Yet you have ¹¹not returned to Me," declares the LORD.

9 "I ¹²smote you with scorching wind and mildew; And the ¹³caterpillar was devouring Your many gardens and vineyards, fig trees and olive trees; Yet you have ¹⁴not returned to Me," declares the LORD.

10 "I sent a ¹⁵plague among you after the manner of Egypt; I ¹⁶slew your young men by the sword along with your ¹⁷captured horses, And I made the ¹⁸stench of your camp rise up in your nostrils; Yet you have ¹⁹not returned to Me," declares the LORD.

11 "I overthrew you, as ²⁰God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, And you were like a ²¹firebrand snatched from a blaze; Yet you have ²²not returned to Me," declares the LORD.

12 "Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel; Because * I will do this to you, Prepare to ²³meet your God, O Israel."

13 For behold, He who ²⁴forms mountains and ²⁵creates the wind And ²⁶declares to man what are His thoughts, He who ²⁷makes dawn into darkness And ²⁸treads on the high places of the earth, ²⁹The LORD God of hosts is His name.

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Amos 4:4-13 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 29

1. Numbers 28:3; Amos 5:21, 22
2. Leviticus 7:13
3. Leviticus 22:18-21
4. Jeremiah 7:9, 10; Hosea 9:1, 10
5. Isaiah 3:1; Jeremiah 14:18
6. Isaiah 9:13; Jeremiah 5:3; Haggai 2:17
7. Deuteronomy 11:17; 2 Chronicles 7:13; Isaiah 5:6
8. Exodus 9:4, 26; Exodus 10:22, 23
9. 1 Kings 18:5; Jeremiah 14:4
10. Ezekiel 4:16, 17; Haggai 1:6
11. Jeremiah 3:7
12. Deuteronomy 28:22; Haggai 2:17
13. Joel 1:4, 7; Amos 7:1, 2
14. Jeremiah 3:10
15. Exodus 9:3; Leviticus 26:25; Deuteronomy 28:27, 60; Psalms 78:50
16. Jeremiah 11:22; Jeremiah 18:21; Jeremiah 48:15
17. 2 Kings 13:3, 7
18. Joel 2:20
19. Isaiah 9:13
20. Genesis 19:24, 25; Deuteronomy 29:23; Isaiah 13:19
21. Zechariah 3:2
22. Jeremiah 23:14
23. Isaiah 32:11; Isaiah 64:2; Jeremiah 5:22
24. Job 38:4-7; Psalms 65:6; Isaiah 40:12
25. Psalms 135:7; Jeremiah 10:13
26. Daniel 2:28, 30
27. Jeremiah 13:16; Joel 2:2; Amos 5:8
28. Micah 1:3
29. Isaiah 47:4; Jeremiah 10:16; Amos 5:8, 27; Amos 9:6

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[a]. Lit "Offer up in smoke"

Amos 4:4-13

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Amos 4:4-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO AMOS 4

Cross References 29

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