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AMOS CHAPTER 3
The necessity of God’s judgment against Israel, Amo_3:1-8. The publication of it, with the causes thereof, Amo_3:9-15.
Hear, with ear and mind, consider it well, for this is to hear indeed.
This word, which is spoken, and the thing decreed too, of God.
The Lord hath spoken; the Lord, who did show you greatest kindness, and whom you have repaid with greatest ingratitude, the everlasting God, who changeth not, hath determined and declared his determinate purpose; against you; or to, or concerning; for if menaces are words against them, yet advice, exhortations, and promises are to, and concerning, those to whom they are spoken.
O children of Israel; subjects of Jeroboam the Second, now king of the ten tribes.
Against the whole family: and let the two tribes consider too how far they are concerned in the prophet’s reproving for sin, calling to repent of sin, and threatening it they do not repent.
Brought up from the land of Egypt: see Amo_2:10.