Amos 5:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe,c and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right. ”

Amos 5:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For I know - Literally, “I have known.” They thought that God did not know, because He did not avenge; as the Psalmist says, “Thy judgments are far above out of his sight” Psalms 10:5 . People w...
Amos 5:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Impending Punishment. The prophet gives his next few words the form of a dirge ( kî nah , Amos 5:1 ). This ( Amos 5:2 ) is characterised by the peculiar kî nah-metre , consisting of three b...
Amos 5:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

transgressions. Hebrew pasha. App-44. sins. Hebrew. chata App-44. they afflict . oppressors [as ye are] of. the just . a righteous one. take. bribe. Reference to Pentateuch ( Numbers 35...
Amos 5:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The Prophet introduces God here as the speaker, that the threatening might be more authoritative: for we know, at it has been before stated, that the Prophets were despised by haughty men; but...
Amos 5:12 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1191 GOD KNOWS OUR SINS Amos 5:12 . I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins . MANY passages of Holy Writ appear to refer to a particular people only; whilst in reali...
Amos 5:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right . I know your manifold transgression...
Amos 5:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

They afflict the just, &c.— Who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside, &c. Houbigant.
Amos 5:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right. They afflict the just, they...
Amos 5:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Third Address 1-6. A lament, a warning, and an invitation. 7, 10-20 . Denunciation of injustice and oppression, with threats of pestilence and judgment. 21-27 . A repudiation of their atte...
Amos 5:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

I know. — Most of the commentators imply that the “I” is Jehovah, but it is more likely to be the prophet himself. The adjectives “manifold,” “mighty,” should be rendered as predicates, That manif...
Amos 5:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2. FOR WORSHIP, JUSTICE Amos 5:1-27 In the next of these groups of oracles Amos continues his attack on the national ritual, and now contrasts it with the service of God in public life-the reli...
Amos 5:12 - 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 5:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The third discourse was a description of Jehovah's judgment. This opened with a lamentation for the virgin of Israel, "The virgin of Israel is fallen, she shall no more rise, she is cast down upon he...
Amos 5:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The first verse in this paragraph is a confirmation, if it were needed, of what I advanced in my observations on the former. Seeking the Lord, implies the hope of finding him, and indeed the promise...
Amos 5:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins ,.... Their sins were numerous, and of the first magnitude, attended with very heavy aggravations; and these with all their circumstances...
Amos 5:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate [from their right]. Ver. 12. For I know your manifo...
Amos 5:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Forasmuch, therefore, as your treading is upon the poor It appears by this, that their acts of oppression were more than ordinarily proud and tyrannical. They were the effect of fraud executed with...
Amos 5:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

God's Message to Israel; The Aggravated Sins of Israel; Warnings and Exhortations; Exhortations and Encouragements. B. C. 790....
Amos 5:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

For; wonder not at the threatened severity, as if it were too rigorous; it is but proportioned to your sins. I, the Lord, whom you provoke, who have threatened you, know, clearly, fully, and in a...
Amos 5:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

A Lamentation Over Israel ( Amos 5:1-17 ). While speaking powerfully Amos had no joy in what was to happen to Israel, and having pronounced judgment on them, he now laments what must necessarily b...
Amos 5:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES . ] Amos 5:7-9 .] God in his omnipotence in contrast with the ungodly people, indicating that he who can destroy should be feared. Wormwood] Justice embittered, corrupted, and m...
Amos 5:12 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Amos 5:4 . For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live: And that it just the message of God to professing Christians now: «Seek ye me.» Get away from your mere...
Amos 5:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Amos 5:2 . The virgin of Israel is fallen. Babylon, which had never been stormed by a besieging army, is called a virgin. Isaiah 47:1 . Thus Israel, whose kingdom had never yet been wholly subdue...
Amos 5:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Verse 1-ch. 6:14 § 8. Third address : the prophet utters a lamentation over the fall of Israel . ( Amos 6:1-30 .) He calls her to repentance, while he shows wherein she has decli...
Amos 5:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Israel's only Safety in Seeking the Lord
Amos 5:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 8:3 ; 2 Kings 17:7-17 ; Acts 3:13 ; Acts 3:14 ; Acts 7:52 ; Amos 2:16 ; Amos 2:6 ; Amos 2:7 ; Amos 5:10 ; Deuteronomy 16:18 ; Deuteronomy 31:21 ; Hebrews 4:12 ; Hebrews 4:13 ;...
Amos 5:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

In the gate — In their courts of justice.

Amos 5:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Amos 5:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 5:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Amos 5:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 5:12 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Amos 5:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Amos 5:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Amos 5:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Amos 5:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 5:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Amos 5:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Amos 5:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Amos 5:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Amos 5:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Amos 5:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Amos 5:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Amos 5:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Amos 5:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Amos 5:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Amos 5:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 5:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Amos 5:12 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Amos 5:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Amos 5:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Amos 5:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Amos 5:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 5:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes