Amos 2:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem. ”

Amos 2:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will send a fire upon Judah - All know now, how Jerusalem, its temple, and its palaces perished by fire, first by Nebuchadnezzar, then by the Romans. Yet some two centuries passed, before that...
Amos 2:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 2:4 f. Judah. The genuineness has been questioned by a number of scholars. It is urged that the thought and language are characteristic of the late prophetic school. If the passage is genuin...
Amos 2:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

We now see what sort of crime is that of which the Prophet speaks. At last a threatening follows, “The Lord saith, Fire will I send on Judah, which shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.’ But a...
Amos 2:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem. I will send a fire upon Judah - This fire was the war made upon the Jews by Nebuchadnezzar, which terminated with the...
Amos 2:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

I will send a fire upon Judah— The war commenced in Judah, at the end of the reign of Jotham son of Uzziah, when the Lord sent against him Rezin king of Assyria, and Pekah king of Israel. See, for...
Amos 2:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem. But I will send a fire upon Judah - Nebuchadnezzar.
Amos 2:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Sins of Israel's Neighbours and the Punishments which Should Follow 1. We may paraphrase the main part of the sentence thus: 'The words of Amos, describing what he saw in prophetic vision.'...
Amos 2:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Judah. — Such high privilege does not involve immunity from punishment. Judah shall be chastised with the same penalty as Edom, Philistia, Ammon, and Moab.
Amos 2:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

ATROCITIES AND ATROCITIES Amos 1:3 - Amos 2:1-16 LIKE all the prophets of Israel, Amos receives oracles for foreign nations. Unlike them, however, he arranges these oracles not after, but bef...
Amos 2:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Judah Shall Be Judged also Amos 1:11-15 ; Amos 2:1-5 Edom was Esau; that is, the people were closely akin to Israel; perhaps for that very reason the hatred on either side became more and m...
Amos 2:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Having thus uttered the word of God concerning the surrounding nations, thereby revealing the fact of His government over all, the prophet turned to Judah, and declared that she also was to share the...
Amos 2:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Judah comes now before the Lord's tribunal, and though for a while separated from Israel, yet not from Israel's God. We find the Lord himself speaking of both by the Prophet, under one and the same c...
Amos 2:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But I will send a fire upon Judah ,.... An enemy, Nebuchadnezzar, who should burn, waste, and destroy, all that were in his way: and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem ; the chief city of Ju...
Amos 2:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem. Ver. 5. But I will send a fire upon Judah ] They shall also bear the punishment of their iniquities; yet, is it not...
Amos 2:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For three transgressions of Judah , &c. Having denounced judgments against the heathen nations, he now proceeds to denounce them against God's professing people, who were more guilty and inexcus...
Amos 2:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Judgment of Moab and of Judah; The Judgment of Israel. B. C. 790. 1 Thus saith the L...
Amos 2:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I will send a fire: see Amos 1:4 . Judah; the kingdom of the two tribes; Benjamin is to be included with Judah, as elsewhere hath been already often observed. It shall devour the palaces: see...
Amos 2:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

7). YHWH's Judgment On Judah ( Amos 2:4-5 ). But while ‘YHWH's people' no doubt prided themselves on being superior morally to those round about, they were now to discover to their horror that the...
Amos 2:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES . ] Bones ] An act of cruelty revenged; others, an insult to the remains of a dead king, probably the king joined in alliance with Jehoshaphat and Jehoram ( 2 Kings 3:9 ). Amos 2:...
Amos 2:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Amos 2:2 . Kirioth, a city of Moab, having palaces. Jeremiah 48:24 . Amos 2:6 . For three transgressions of Israel. This phrase, explained in Amos 1:3 , is repeated against five nations, mar...
Amos 2:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

I will not turn away the punishment thereof. God’s dealing with nations I. The opportunity for repentance which all possess. The punishment of the six heathen nations, as of Judah and Israel, o...
Amos 2:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Amos 2:1-30 Judgment on Moab. Amos 2:1 Moab . The prophet now denounces the other nation connected by ties of blood with Israel (see on Amos 1:13 ). Moab's hostility had...
Amos 2:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Against Moab and Judah
Amos 2:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hosea 8:14 ; Jeremiah 17:27 ; Jeremiah 21:10 ; Jeremiah 37:8-10 ; Jeremiah 39:8 ; Jeremiah 52:13

Amos 2:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Amos 2:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 2:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 2:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Amos 2:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Amos 2:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Amos 2:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 2:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Amos 2:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Amos 2:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Amos 2:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Amos 2:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Amos 2:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Amos 2:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Amos 2:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Amos 2:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Amos 2:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Amos 2:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 2:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Amos 2:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Amos 2:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Amos 2:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Amos 2:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Amos 2:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge