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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Amos 4:11 - 4:11
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some of you - some parts of your territory.
as God overthrew Sodom - (Deu 29:23; Isa 13:19; Jer 49:18; Jer 50:40; 2Pe 2:6; Jud 1:7). “God” is often repeated in Hebrew instead of “I.” The earthquake here apparently alluded to is not that in the reign of Uzziah, which occurred “two years” later (Amo 1:1). Traces of earthquakes and volcanic agency abound in Palestine. The allusion here is to some of the effects of these in previous times. Compare the prophecy, Deu 28:15-68, with Amo 4:6-11 here.
as a firebrand plucked out of ... burning - (Compare Isa 7:4; Zec 3:2). The phrase is proverbial for a narrow escape from utter extinction. Though Israel revived as a nation under Jeroboam II, it was but for a time, and that after an almost utter destruction previously (2Ki 14:26).