Amos 4:8-13

8 "So two or three cities would stagger to another city to drink ¹water, But would ²not be satisfied; Yet you have ³not returned to Me," declares the LORD.

9 "I ⁴smote you with scorching wind and mildew; And the ⁵caterpillar was devouring Your many gardens and vineyards, fig trees and olive trees; Yet you have ⁶not returned to Me," declares the LORD.

10 "I sent a ⁷plague among you after the manner of Egypt; I ⁸slew your young men by the sword along with your ⁹captured horses, And I made the ¹⁰stench of your camp rise up in your nostrils; Yet you have ¹¹not returned to Me," declares the LORD.

11 "I overthrew you, as ¹²God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, And you were like a ¹³firebrand snatched from a blaze; Yet you have ¹⁴not 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 ¹⁵meet your God, O Israel."

13 For behold, He who ¹⁶forms mountains and ¹⁷creates the wind And ¹⁸declares to man what are His thoughts, He who ¹⁹makes dawn into darkness And ²⁰treads on the high places of the earth, ²¹The LORD God of hosts is His name.

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Amos 4:8-13 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

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

Amos 4:8-13

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Amos 4:8-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO AMOS 4

Cross References 21