Amos 3:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it? ”

• Amos 3:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Is there evil in the city and the Lord hath not done it? - Evil is of two sorts, evil of sin, and evil of punishment. There is no other; for evil of nature, or evil of fortune, are evils, by God’...

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• Amos 3:6 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (f) Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there (g) be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done [it]? (f) Will the Prophet's threaten God's judgments and the pe...

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• Amos 3:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Amos 3:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Shall... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. trumpet. Hebrew. shophar. not be afraid . not run together. evil . calamity; as in Amos 5:13 . Psalms 141:5 . Feb. ra'a'. App-44. = evil: not...

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• Amos 3:6 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  He adds, in the last place, Shall a trumpet sound and the people tremble not? Here he reprehends, as I have said, the torpidity of the people, to whom all threatening were a sport: “When a t...

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• Amos 3:6 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1187 GOD THE SOURCE AND CAUSE OF ALL THINGS Amos 3:6 . Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it? IT is a generally acknowledged truth, that every thing proceeds...

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• Amos 3:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it ? Shall a trumpet be blown - The sign of alarm and invasion. And the...

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• Amos 3:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  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...

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• Amos 3:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it? Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afr...

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• Amos 3:6 - 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 3:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Surely the Lord ... — In this, and the preceding verse, the future tense should be replaced by a present. Render doeth nothing, and in Amos 3:6 is a trumpet sounded ... are not afraid ... is...

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• Amos 3:6 - 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 3:6 - 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 3:6 - 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 3:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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?...

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• Amos 3:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Shall a trumpet be blown in the city ,.... Meaning not any trumpet blown, as the silver trumpet for the gathering of the people to worship, or the jubilee trumpet, which proclaimed liberty to them,...

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• Amos 3:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done [it]? Ver. 6. Shall a trumpet be blown ] sc. out of a watch-tower...

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• Amos 3:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Will a lion roar, &c., when he hath no prey? “Naturalists assert that when the lion sees his prey, he roars before he rushes on it; and that at this roaring many animals show great fear. He lik...

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• Amos 3:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  God's Remonstrance with Israel. B. C. 790.       1 Hear this word that the L ORD hath spoken...

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• Amos 3:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Shall a trumpet be blown, when an alarm is sounded, by which notice is given of danger approaching, of an enemy invading the land, in the city, any city, but particularly in a frontier city, in whi...

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• Amos 3:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Amos 3:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Amos 3:6 - 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 3:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• Amos 3:6 - 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 3:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Lord Ready to Punish

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• Amos 3:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Corinthians 5:11 ; Acts 2:23 ; Acts 4:28 ; Ezekiel 33:3 ; Genesis 50:20 ; Hosea 5:8 ; Isaiah 14:24-27 ; Isaiah 45:7 ; Jeremiah 10:7 ; Jeremiah 4:5 ; Jeremiah 5:22 ; Jeremiah 6:1 ; Zeph...

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• Amos 3:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Afraid — Affected with the danger. Evil — Such as plague or famine. Done it — Either immediately by his own hand, or by the hands of those he employs. Whoever are the instruments, God is the princi...

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