Amos 3:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled. ”

• Amos 3:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Therefore thus saith the Lord God - There was no human redress. The oppressor was mighty, but mightier the Avenger of the poor. Man would not help; therefore God would. “An adversary” there shall...

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• Amos 3:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Guilt and Doom of Samaria. The prophet proceeds to apply the lesson. The peoples are summoned to proclaim the fate that has befallen ( Amos 3:9 *) the castles of Ashdod and those in the land of Eg...

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• Amos 3:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  thus saith the Lord God. The first of three occurrences of this formula in Amos. See note on Amos 1:3 . An adversary . An adversary [shall] come. Figure of speech Ellipsis . App-6. Compare 2 K...

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• Amos 3:11 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  The Prophet here announces the punishment God would inflict on the Israelites. An enemy, he says, and indeed one around you, etc. Some think צר, tsar, to be a verb in the imperativ...

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• Amos 3:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled. An adversary, round about...

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• Amos 3:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  An adversary there shall be, &c.— An adversary shall surround thy land: he shall cast thee down from thy power, and thy forts or strong places shall be spoiled. Houbigant.

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• Amos 3:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled. An adversary there...

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• Amos 3:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The First Address 1-8. A call to attention. 9, 10. The oppressions practised by the powerful. 11-15 . The disasters which should overtake them, their sanctuary and their palaces. 1 . 'Race' w...

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• Amos 3:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  An adversary. — This rendering is to be preferred to “affliction” (Chald., Syr.). It is the subject of the following verb “bring down,” Assyria being referred to, though not in express terms. The r...

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• Amos 3:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CIVILIZATION AND JUDGMENT Amos 3:1-15 - Amos 4:3 WE now enter the Second Section of the Book of Amos: Chapter s 3-6. It is a collection of various oracles of denunciation, grouped partly by t...

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• Amos 3:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Lord's Word Must Come True Amos 3:1-15 The closer our relationship with God, the more searching His scrutiny and chastening. The sins of God's children which may seem of slight consequence...

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• Amos 3:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Having thus uttered the declamations of Jehovah's judgment on all the nations, the prophet delivered his special message to Israel in a series of three discourses. In each the introductory word is, "...

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• Amos 3:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  There is somewhat very striking in the Lord's appeal to the nations of the earth for the justification of his conduct concerning his people. It not only is intended to this purpose, for perhaps this...

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• Amos 3:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Therefore thus saith the Lord God ,.... Because of these tumults and riots, oppression and injustice, violence and robbery: an adversary there [shall be] even round about the land : not Tyre, as T...

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• Amos 3:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary [there shall be] even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled. Ver. 11. Therefore thu...

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• Amos 3:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Publish in the palaces at Ashdod , &c. God here orders the prophet to invite the Philistines and Egyptians, the inveterate enemies of God's Israel, to come and behold what great wickedness was a...

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• Amos 3:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Israel Convicted and Condemned. B. C. 790.       9 Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in...

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• Amos 3:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Therefore; because of all the violence and rapine, with other crying sins, multiplied against God in the midst of them. An adversary, the Assyrian with united forces, shall be even round about th...

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• Amos 3:11 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Amos Puts Israel On Trial Before YHWH In The Presence Of Witnesses ( Amos 3:9-15 ). Amos begins by calling his witnesses together in Amos 3:9-10 , giving his grounds for doing so, and then declar...

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• Amos 3:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES .] Amos 3:9 . Publish] upon (the floor of) the palaces, some; others, over them, to call the princes and inhabitants to hear and see the acts of violence, and testify against...

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• Amos 3:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Amos 3:1 . Against the whole family of the twelve tribes, which I brought up from Egypt. It was a laborious work to make them hear. The prophets did not confine their labours to local districts....

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• Amos 3:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

  They know not to do right. Safety in righteousness 1. The real security of wealth is justice in its acquisition and liberality in its use. Where there is much wealth, unjustly gotten, or unmerc...

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• Amos 3:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Verse 1-ch. 6:14 Part II . THREE ADDRESSES PARTICULARIZING THE SINS OF ISRAEL AND ANNOUNCING IMMINENT JUDGMENT . Amos 3:1-30 § 1. First address: the pr...

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• Amos 3:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Lord Declaring his Purpose

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• Amos 3:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Chronicles 36:19 ; 2 Kings 15:19 ; 2 Kings 15:29 ; 2 Kings 17:3-6 ; 2 Kings 18:9-11 ; Amos 6:14 ; Amos 2:5 ; Amos 3:10 ; Amos 3:15 ; Amos 6:8 ; Hosea 11:5 ; Hosea 11:6 ; Isaiah 10:5 ;...

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• Amos 3:11 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Therefore — Because of all the violence and rapine with other crying sins. An adversary — The Assyrian. Round about — Shall beset the whole land as one besieged city.

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