Amos 3:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy? ”

Amos 3:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Lion hath roared: who will not fear? The Lord God hath spoken: who can but prophesy? - that is, there is cause for you to fear, when the Lord “roareth from Zion;” but if ye fear not, God’s pr...
Amos 3:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but (i) prophesy? (i) Because the people always murmured against the Prophets, he shows that God's Spirit moved them to spe...
Amos 3:8 - 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...
Amos 3:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

The lion bath roared. Figure of speech Hypocatastasis. App-6. the Lord GOD hath spoken. Figure of speech Hermeneia. App-6. Explaining the Figure of speech Hypocatastasis. in the preceding lin...
Amos 3:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

It now follows, The lion roars who would not fear? The Lord Jehovah speaks, who would not prophesy? In this verse the Prophet reproved the Israelites for their usual contentions with the Pro...
Amos 3:8 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1188 GOD’S VOICE TO SINNERS Amos 3:8 . The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy? THERE is not any thing more strange and unreasonable...
Amos 3:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy? The lion hath roared - God hath sent forth a terrible alarm, Who will not fear? Can any hear such denunciation...
Amos 3:8 - 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...
Amos 3:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy? The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy? As when "the...
Amos 3:8 - 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...
Amos 3:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Roared. — Comp. the imagery of Amos 1:2 , and that of Amos 3:4 . The voice of the Lord is so audible, so clearly portending the coming judgment, that universal terror inevitably follows. (Comp. “...
Amos 3:8 - 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...
Amos 3:8 - 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...
Amos 3:8 - 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, "...
Amos 3:8 - 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?...
Amos 3:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The lion hath roared, who will not fear ?.... Amos said this from his own experience, who, having been a herdsman in the wilderness of Tekoa, had often heard a lion roar, which had put him into a pa...
Amos 3:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy? Ver. 8. The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy? ] Who that...
Amos 3:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Lord will do nothing, but he revealeth , &c. As if he had said, You cannot complain of your not being forewarned of these calamities coming upon you, for God hath not done, nor will do any t...
Amos 3:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

God's Remonstrance with Israel. B. C. 790. 1 Hear this word that the L ORD hath spoken...
Amos 3:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The lion hath roared; God hath threatened; and, as a lion roareth when near his prey, so God hath terribly threatened what is near to be done. Amos lived and prophesied in Jeroboam's time, about A....
Amos 3:8 - 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...
Amos 3:8 - 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...
Amos 3:8 - 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....
Amos 3:8 - 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...
Amos 3:8 - 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...
Amos 3:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Lord Ready to Punish
Amos 3:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 9:16 ; Acts 4:20 ; Acts 5:20 ; Acts 5:29 ; Amos 2:12 ; Amos 7:12-17 ; Amos 1:2 ; Amos 3:4 ; Jeremiah 20:9 ; Job 32:18 ; Job 32:19 ; Revelation 5:5
Amos 3:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Hath roared — As a lion roareth when near his prey: so God hath terribly threatened what is near to be done. Prophesy — Amos can not but speak what he had heard.

Amos 3:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Amos 3:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Amos 3:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 3:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Amos 3:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 3:8 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Amos 3:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Amos 3:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Amos 3:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Amos 3:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 3:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Amos 3:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Amos 3:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Amos 3:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Amos 3:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Amos 3:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Amos 3:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Amos 3:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Amos 3:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Amos 3:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Amos 3:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 3:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Amos 3:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Amos 3:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Amos 3:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Amos 3:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Amos 3:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 3:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes