Amos 5:27 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts. ”

Amos 5:27 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Therefore - (And) this being so, such having been their way from the beginning until now, will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus Syria was the most powerful enemy by whom God had h...
Amos 5:27 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Israel's Delusions. The prophet resumes the subject of Israel's delusions, how she disregards the essential conditions of real welfare. In Amos 5:18-20 he deals with a peculiar example of this, t...
Amos 5:27 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

beyond Damascus. In Acts 7:43 beyond Babylon, which was of course "beyond Damascus", and included it, showing what was in the Divine purpose in the words of Jehovah ( Amos 5:27 ) by Amos. Moreove...
Amos 5:27 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Here the Prophet at last denounces exile on the Israelites as though he had said that God would not suffer them any longer to contaminate the Holy Land, which had been given them as an heritage...
Amos 5:27 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts. Will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus - That is, into Assyria, the w...
Amos 5:27 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Have ye offered unto me, &c.— See the note on Deuteronomy 12:8 . Jeremiah 7:22 . These verses have made some people think that the Israelites, in their forty years' wanderings through the wil...
Amos 5:27 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts. Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus. In Acts 7:43...
Amos 5:27 - 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 5:27 - 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 5:27 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

a Dark Day for Hypocrites Amos 5:16-27 Mighty sins had been committed, and mighty judgments were at hand. The oppression of the poor, Amos 5:11 ; the erection of elegant dwellings from unright...
Amos 5:27 - 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 5:27 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

We have here the Lord's threatenings concerning the captivity of the people, and which we know came to pass. Stephen, the first martyr, made a quotation from this scripture. Acts 7:42-43 . But what...
Amos 5:27 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus ,.... The chief city of Syria; and which, as Aben Ezra says, lay to the east of the land of Israel, and was a very strong and fortifie...
Amos 5:27 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name [is] The God of hosts. Ver. 27. Therefore will cause you ] Idolatry is a land desolating sin. Beyond...
Amos 5:27 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, whose name is , &c. Ye shall be removed further from your own country, than when Hazael, king of Syria, carried a...
Amos 5:27 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Hypocritical Services Rejected; Threatenings against Israel. B. C. 790. 21 I hate, I d...
Amos 5:27 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Therefore, for all your idolatry and other sins in which you have obstinately continued, will I cause you to go into captivity; you shall certainly be subdued and captivated; and this shall be do...
Amos 5:27 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The First Woe, Concerning The Day of YHWH ( Amos 5:18-27 ). A ‘woe' was the opposite of a ‘blessed be you of YHWH'. It was the announcing of troubles and disaster that would come on His people dir...
Amos 5:27 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES . ] Amos 5:25 . Have] Lit. Did ye , equivalent to denial, some; others, not entire suspension of sacrifice, but mixed with idolatry. From of old they had been recreant to God. Th...
Amos 5:27 - 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 5:27 - 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 5:27 - 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 5:27 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Woe upon Fools and Hypocrites
Amos 5:27 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 15:29 ; 2 Kings 17:6 ; Acts 7:43 ; Amos 4:13
Amos 5:27 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Therefore — For all your idolatry and other sins, in which you have obstinately continued.

Amos 5:27 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Amos 5:27 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 5:27 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Amos 5:27 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 5:27 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Amos 5:27 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Amos 5:27 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Amos 5:27 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 5:27 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Amos 5:27 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Amos 5:27 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Amos 5:27 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Amos 5:27 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Amos 5:27 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Amos 5:27 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Amos 5:27 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Amos 5:27 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Amos 5:27 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 5:27 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Amos 5:27 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Amos 5:27 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Amos 5:27 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Amos 5:27 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Amos 5:27 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 5:27 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes