Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Amos 4:2

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Amos 4:2 - 4:2

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Amos 4:2 - 4:2

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This Chapter Verse Commentaries:

4:1 - 4:1
4:2 - 4:2
4:3 - 4:3
4:4 - 4:4
4:5 - 4:5
4:6 - 4:6
4:7 - 4:7
4:8 - 4:8
4:9 - 4:9
4:10 - 4:10
4:11 - 4:11
4:12 - 4:12
4:13 - 4:13

The Lord - the same Hebrew as “masters” (Amo 4:1). Israel’s nobles say to their master or lord, Bring us drink: but “the Lord” of him and them “hath sworn,” etc.

by his holiness - which binds Him to punish the guilty (Psa 89:35).

he will take yon away - that is God by the instrumentality of the enemy.

with hooks - literally, “thorns” (compare 2Ch 33:11). As fish are taken out of the water by hooks, so the Israelites are to be taken out of their cities by the enemy (Eze 29:4; compare Job 41:1, Job 41:2; Jer 16:16; Hab 1:15). The image is the more appropriate, as anciently captives were led by their conquerors by a hook made to pass through the nose (2Ki 19:28), as is to be seen in the Assyrian remains.