“ Can two walk together, except they be agreed? ”
Sacred parables or enigmas must have many meanings. They are cast on the mind, to quicken it and rouse it by their very mystery. They are taken from objects which in different lights, represent dif...
Can two walk together, except they be (b) agreed? (b) By this the Prophet signifies that he speaks not of himself, but as God guides and moves him, which is called the agreement between God and his...
Israel's Responsibility and the Prophet's Obligation. Amos, after addressing the children of Israel, includes Judah by adding the whole family, unless this is a gloss, as it may be, since the inclu...
Can two... ? Figure of speech Erotesis (in negative affirmation). App-6. This is the first of five parables. The answer to each is self-evident, be agreed . have met together by appointment [of...
The Prophet here accumulates similitudes which may, however, be reduced to five particulars. He first shows that he uttered no empty words, but had God’s authority for what he said; and he appe...
DISCOURSE: 1186 REQUISITES FOR FRIENDSHIP WITH GOD Amos 3:3 . Can two walk together, except they be agreed? IT is not always safe to judge of God, and the things which relate to Him, by the th...
Can two walk together, except they be agreed? Can two walk together - While ye loved and served me, I dwelt in you and walked among you. Now ye are become alienated from me, your nature and mine are...
Can two walk, &c.— The similies in these verses have the same meaning, and they all tend to shew that calamities happen according to the appointing, permissive, or suffering will of God; and th...
Can two walk together, except they be agreed? Here follow several questions of a parable-like kind, to awaken conviction in the people. Can two walk together, except they be agreed? - Can...
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...
Two. — Who are the two here represented? Some commentators say, two prophets; Rosenmüller, “God and the prophet.” But Grotius, Lowth, Henderson, and Pusey refer it, with more reason, to God and Isr...
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...
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...
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, "...
The Lord is going on in his expostulations. He first shews, that by Israel's revolt that sweet communion between the Lord and his people was interrupted. Ca n two walk together except they be agreed?...
A PAIR OF FRIENDS ‘Can two walk together, except they be agreed?’ Amos 3:3 There is instruction in the very way in which this text is introduced. God was remonstrating with His people, and...
Can two walk together except they be agreed ?] Unless they meet together, and appoint time and place, when and where they shall set out, what road they will take, and whither they will go; without s...
Can two walk together, except they be agreed? Ver. 3. Can two walk together, except they be agreed ] God permits his people to walk together with him in a humble familiarity; but then they must ta...
Can two walk together Comfortably as friends; except they be agreed Except they be in peace with each other? So neither can I conduct myself toward you as a friend or benefactor, nor can you have...
God's Remonstrance with Israel. B. C. 790. 1 Hear this word that the L ORD hath spoken...
Here the prophet threatens this people that God would begin his visitations and their punishments in his forsaking them, and doth by this interrogatory endeavour to convince them that they could not...
The Covenant Relationship Between YHWH And His People ( Amos 3:1-8 ). The covenant relationship between YHWH and His people is revealed in this carefully constructed passage in which there is cons...
CRITICAL NOTES .] Amos 3:3 . Two] The prophet and the Spirit of God. Israel did not believe that God threatened such denunciations by the prophets (ch. Amos 6:1-3 ; Amos 1:7-8 ). Amos spo...
Amos 3:3 The words of our text are in themselves so general, that they might very well stand alone as a proverbial truth, capable of a vast variety of applications. They would furnish an ample the...
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....
You only have I known of all the families of the earth. Sin in the highly-favoured This is shameful ingratitude. The honour and blessing conferred on the Israelites gave the stain of ingratitud...
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...
The Lord Ready to Punish
2 Corinthians 6:14-16 ; Genesis 17:1 ; Genesis 5:22 ; Genesis 6:9
Agreed — Can you have God's presence while you walk so contrary to him?