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

“ Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after threeb years: ”

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

Come to Beth-el and transgress - Having foretold their captivity, the prophet tries irony. But his irony is in bidding them go on to do, what they were doing earnestly, what they were set upon do...
Amos 4:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Come to (d) Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, [and] your tithes after three (e) years: (d) He speaks this in contempt of those who re...
Amos 4:4 - 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 4:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Come to Beth-el, &c. Here we have Divine irony, as though it meant "Fill up the measure of your iniquity". Compare Matthew 23:32 . transgress... transgression. Hebrew pasha'. App-44. Beth...
Amos 4:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The Prophet here again pours contempt on the perverse confidence, in which the Israelites were become hardened. They thought, indeed, that their worship was fully approved by God, when they off...
Amos 4:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years: Come to Beth-el and transgress - Spoken ironically. Go...
Amos 4:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Come to Beth-el— This and the following verses are spoken ironically. See Hosea 4:15 ; Hosea 12:11 . "Signalize your zeal and your diligence in those things which the Lord abhorreth most." Instea...
Amos 4:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years: Come to Beth-el, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply...
Amos 4:4 - 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 4:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bethel... Gilgal. — In bitterly ironical words the prophet summons Israel to the calf-worship of Bethel, and to similar rites of bastard Jehovah-worship at Gilgal. These spots were full of sacred a...
Amos 4:4 - 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...
Amos 4:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Calamities Are God's Warnings Amos 4:1-11 Speaking after the imagery of his vocation, Amos the herdsman compares the rich and powerful of Samaria, who were living in luxury and wantonness, to t...
Amos 4:4 - 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 4:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

It should seem that in the midst of all their transgressions they still carried on a shew of religion. Like their idolatrous neighbours around, they would not be totally void of some form of worship,...
Amos 4:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Come to Bethel and transgress ,.... and what follows, are ironic and sarcastic speeches, not giving liberty to sin, but in this way reproving for it: Bethel was one of the places where the calves we...
Amos 4:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, [and] your tithes after three years: Ver. 4. Come to Bethel and transgress ] Do so, if yo...
Amos 4:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Come to Beth-el The known place of the calf-worship; and transgress A strong irony, giving them over as incorrigible: like that of Ezekiel 20:39 , Go ye, serve every man his idols. At Gilgal mu...
Amos 4:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Threatenings against Oppressors; Punishment of Proud Oppressors. B. C. 790. 1 Hear this...
Amos 4:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Come to Beth-el, the known place of the moscholatria, calf-worship: see Amos 3:14 . And transgress: this clears it to be an irony, either throwing them up to their obstinate way of sinning, gi...
Amos 4:4 - 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 4:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES . ] Amos 4:4 . Gilgal] The scene of idolatry. Multiply ] Irony. Since you will not be reformed, go on, try whether God likes your sacrifices; eager as you are in worship, you wil...
Amos 4:4 - Scofield Reference Notes

Beth-el Compare ( 1 Kings 12:25-33 ). Any altar at Beth-el, after the establishment of Jehovah's worship at Jerusalem was of necessity divisive and schismatic. ( Deuteronomy 12:4-14 ). C...
Amos 4:4 - 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 4:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression. Ill-spent service I. The scenes of this idolatry. “Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression.” Idolatry...
Amos 4:4 - 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 4:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Denunciation of the Outstanding Vices
Amos 4:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 3:14 ; Amos 5:5 ; Deuteronomy 14:28 ; Deuteronomy 14:29 ; Deuteronomy 26:12 ; Ecclesiastes 11:9 ; Ezekiel 20:39 ; Hosea 12:11 ; Hosea 4:15 ; Hosea 9:15 ; Joel 3:9-12 ; Mark 14:41 ;...
Amos 4:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Come to Beth — el — A strong irony, giving them over as incorrigible. At Gilgal — Gilgal was a place where much idolatry was acted. Every morning — In the same irony God reproves their sins tho' th...

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

Amos 4:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

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

Amos 4:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Amos 4:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

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

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

Amos 4:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

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

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

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

Amos 4:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Amos 4:4 - Scofield Reference Notes

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

Amos 4:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

Amos 4:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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

Amos 4:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 4:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes