Amos 4:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. ”

Amos 4:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Therefore thus will I do unto thee - God says more by His silence. He had enumerated successive scourges. Now, with His hand uplifted to strike, He mentions none, but says, “thus.” Rib.: “So men...
Amos 4:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: [and] because I will do this unto thee, prepare to (n) meet thy God, O Israel. (n) Turn to him by repentance.
Amos 4:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Israel's Denseness. What is the real cause of conduct that merits such punishment? At the root of all the evil is a sham religion, a religion which in its mere formality and gross corruption has de...
Amos 4:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

prepare to meet, &c. i.e. in judgment. Compare Ezekiel 13:5 ; Ezekiel 22:30 ; Amos 4:11 and Amos 4:12 are not "out of place" or an "interpolation", but are required by the Structure, "M",...
Amos 4:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Amos here declares, in the person of God, that the people in vain hoped for pardon, or for a modification, or an abatement, or an end to their punishment; for God had in vain made the attempt,...
Amos 4:12 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1189 INCORRIGIBLENESS REPROVED Amos 4:11-12 . Yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord. Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, pre...
Amos 4:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. Therefore thus will I do unto thee - I will continue my judgments, I will figh...
Amos 4:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Therefore thus will I do unto thee, &c.— But now what shall I do unto thee, O Israel, after I have done these things? Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel! Amos 4:13 . For lo, he is at hand, w...
Amos 4:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. Therefore - as all chastizements have failed to make thee "return unto m...
Amos 4:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Second Address 1-3. The heartless luxury of the rich women. 4, 5 . The elaborate sacrifices and pilgrimages. 6-12 . The failure of God's chastisements to produce amendment. 1 . These pam...
Amos 4:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Thus will I do. — What is he about to do? It is left in awful uncertainty, but the doom is wrapt up in the boundless possibilities of the Divine judgment involved in the drawing very near of the Lo...
Amos 4:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

1. FOR WORSHIP, CHASTISEMENT Amos 4:4-13 In chapter 2 Amos contrasted the popular conception of religion as worship with God's-conception of it as history. He placed a picture of the sanctuary,...
Amos 4:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“Prepare to Meet Thy God” Amos 4:12-13 ; Amos 5:1-15 Worse judgments than those mentioned in the previous verses were in store but before they are inflicted, the entire nation is summoned to t...
Amos 4:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The second discourse consists of Jehovah's summons to the people. It commences with a severe and terrible indictment of the women. He addressed them as "Ye kine of Bashan," which reveals the degrada...
Amos 4:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Here we have an account of the Lord's sore judgments upon Israel; by famine, by withholding the fruits of the earth, and by marking his judgments in a distinguishing manner, causing it to rain upon o...
Amos 4:12 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

‘PREPARATION TO MEET GOD’ ‘Prepare to meet thy God!’ Amos 4:12 That man has still to learn the real lesson of life, who has not yet been taught to read it, in all its Chapter s of joy and so...
Amos 4:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel ,.... What he would do is not expressly and particularly said; it is commonly understood to be something in a way of judgment, and worse than what he had...
Amos 4:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: [and] because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. Ver. 12. Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel ] Thus? how? Non nom...
Amos 4:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Therefore thus will I do unto thee I will continue to send these several judgments upon thee till I entirely destroy thee. And because , or, forasmuch, as I will do this unto thee, prepare to mee...
Amos 4:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Incorrigibleness of Israel; Judgments Called to Remembrance; Greater Judgments Threatened. B. C. 790....
Amos 4:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Therefore, because none of my former methods have succeeded, as in reason might have been expected, thus will I do unto thee, in some more terrible manner will I now proceed against thee, O Israe...
Amos 4:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Two Indictments Of The People Which Will Result In A Series Of Chastisements ( Amos 4:1-13 ). A new oracle now begins with the words ‘hear this word ---' (compare Amos 3:1 ; Amos 5:1 ) and consi...
Amos 4:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THREATENED EVIL ESCAPED BY RETURN TO GOD.— Amos 4:12 “When he has said, ‘This will I do to thee,’ he is silent as to what he will do, in order that whilst Israel is left in uncertainty as to the...
Amos 4:12 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Amos 4:12 Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel" i.e. prepare thyself, if penitent, to meet Him with supplications, prayers, and tears; but if still hardened and impenitent, to encounter His just ven...
Amos 4:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Amos 4:1 . Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan. The strong bulls of Bashan are celebrated in scripture. Psalms 22:13 . Vaccæ pingues, fat cows, haughty women, abandoned to luxurious ease, and who...
Amos 4:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

Prepare to meet thy God. Preparation for judgment We will endeavour to enforce the exhortation of the text in a series of arguments, illustrating the reasons why due obedience and attention sho...
Amos 4:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Amos 4:1-30 § 2. Second address. The prophet reproves the voluptuous women of Samaria, and fortells their captivity ( Amos 4:1-30 ); with bitter irony he describes the people'...
Amos 4:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Various Punishments Leading up to the Last Judgment
Amos 4:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Thessalonians 5:2-4 ; Amos 5:4-15 ; Amos 2:14 ; Amos 4:2 ; Amos 4:3 ; Amos 9:1-4 ; Ezekiel 13:5 ; Ezekiel 22:30 ; Hosea 13:8 ; Isaiah 47:3 ; James 4:1-10 ; Luke 14:31 ; Luke 14:32 ; L...
Amos 4:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Therefore — In a more terrible manner will I now proceed against thee.

Amos 4:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Amos 4:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Amos 4:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 4:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Amos 4:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 4:12 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Amos 4:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Amos 4:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Amos 4:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Amos 4:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 4:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Amos 4:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Amos 4:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Amos 4:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Amos 4:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Amos 4:12 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Amos 4:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Amos 4:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Amos 4:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Amos 4:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Amos 4:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Amos 4:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 4:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Amos 4:12 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Amos 4:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Amos 4:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

Amos 4:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Amos 4:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Amos 4:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 4:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes