Amos 4:5-13

5 "Offer a ¹thank offering also from that which is leavened, And proclaim ²freewill offerings, make them known. For so you ³love to do, you sons of Israel," Declares the Lord GOD.

6 "But I gave you also ⁴cleanness of teeth in all your cities And lack of bread in all your places, Yet you have ⁵not returned to Me," declares the LORD.

7 "Furthermore, I ⁶withheld the rain from you While there were still three months until harvest. Then I would send rain on one city And on ⁷another 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 ⁸water, But would ⁹not be satisfied; Yet you have ¹⁰not returned to Me," declares the LORD.

9 "I ¹¹smote you with scorching wind and mildew; And the ¹²caterpillar was devouring Your many gardens and vineyards, fig trees and olive trees; Yet you have ¹³not returned to Me," declares the LORD.

10 "I sent a ¹⁴plague among you after the manner of Egypt; I ¹⁵slew your young men by the sword along with your ¹⁶captured horses, And I made the ¹⁷stench of your camp rise up in your nostrils; Yet you have ¹⁸not returned to Me," declares the LORD.

11 "I overthrew you, as ¹⁹God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, And you were like a ²⁰firebrand snatched from a blaze; Yet you have ²¹not 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 ²²meet your God, O Israel."

13 For behold, He who ²³forms mountains and ²⁴creates the wind And ²⁵declares to man what are His thoughts, He who ²⁶makes dawn into darkness And ²⁷treads on the high places of the earth, ²⁸The LORD God of hosts is His name.

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Amos 4:5-13 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 28

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

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[a]. Lit "Offer up in smoke"

Amos 4:5-13

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Amos 4:5-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO AMOS 4

Cross References 28

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