Amos 7:15 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel. ”

Amos 7:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Effect of Amos-' Public Utterances. A historical episode is here interposed. Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, interrupts the work of Amos, charging him, by twisting his words, with conspiracy ( Amos...
Amos 7:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

took me: i.e., called me Prophets were called by Jehovah; not born prophets, or made prophets by man. See notes on 1 Samuel 10:5 . Hebrews 1:1 . as. followed, &c. Compare Psalms 78:70 ; P...
Amos 7:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.
Amos 7:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel. And the Lord took me as I followed the flock. So David was taken ( 2 Samuel 7:8 ;...
Amos 7:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Three Visions and an Interruption 1-9. The visions. 10-17 . The interruption. There are two senses in which the word 'Vision' may be used of one of the forms of Hebrew prophecy. In the first se...
Amos 7:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Followed the flock. — There is no hint of any lack of education or refinement (see Introduction) through the exclusion of any special aid derived from the training of earlier prophets. In this case...
Amos 7:15 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

5. THE PROPHET AND HIS MINISTRY Amos 7:1-17 - Amos 8:1-4 We have seen the preparation of the Man for the Word; we have sought to trace to its source the Word which came to the Man. It now rem...
Amos 7:15 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Herdsman's Message Amos 7:1-17 The king's mowings were the earliest yield of the grasslands, which were exacted by him. Our King also has His mowings, when He takes to Himself our dearest...
Amos 7:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In this division the prophet gave a fivefold vision of judgment, introduced in the first four cases by the words, "The Lord God showed me." The last vision was of Jehovah Himself. The vision of the l...
Amos 7:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Blessed be the Lord for making his servants faithful. Who but must admire the humbleness and modesty of Amos, in his account of his call to the ministry! And who but must be delighted with the firmne...
Amos 7:15 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

TAKEN INTO FELLOWSHIP ‘The Lord took me as I followed the flock.’ Amos 7:15 It was so with the shepherd-king. ‘He chose David also His servant, and took him from the sheepfolds: from followi...
Amos 7:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the Lord took me as I followed the flock ,.... Or "from behind" it u; a description of a shepherd, such an one Amos was, and in this employ when the Lord called him, and took him to be a prophet...
Amos 7:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel. Ver. 15. And the Lord took me, as I followed the flock ] As he took Elisha from the plo...
Amos 7:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I was no prophet Not originally, or by study, or by any human designation; neither was I a prophet's son Neither was I bred up at the schools of the prophets; as those usually were who took that...
Amos 7:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Amaziah's Charge against Amos; Amaziah's Doom. B. C. 785. 10 Then Amaziah the priest o...
Amos 7:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The Lord, the great and jealous God, whom you oppose by idols, took me; by an extraordinary power of his Spirit took me off from my old, mean, and private employment and recess, and I could not wit...
Amos 7:15 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Third Vision. The Vision Of The Plumb-line And The Resulting Response ( Amos 7:7-17 ). In this third vision YHWH carried some kind of measuring device as He stood beside a wall, presumably wit...
Amos 7:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES . ] Amos 7:10 .] The prophet opposed at Bethel on account of these predictions. Conspired ] Heb. banded , implying that others joined. There is a charge of conspiracy and sediti...
Amos 7:15 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Amos 7:10-15 I. There is something very wonderful, and at the same time most natural, in the expansion of mind which a man brought up as Amos was, acquires when he has been raised out of himself a...
Amos 7:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Amos 7:1 . He formed grasshoppers, which are the same as the locusts. After the king's mowings. It is supposed that the first grass, or the proud corn cut with the scythe, was a tribute to the k...
Amos 7:15 - The Biblical Illustrator

Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel. The conventional and the genuine priests of a people I. The conventional priest. Amaziah was chief priest of the royal sanc...
Amos 7:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Verse 1-ch. 9:10 Part III . FIVE VISIONS , WITH EXPLANATIONS , CONTINUING AND CONFIRMING THE PREVIOUS PROPHECY . The afflictions are climactic, increasing in inte...
Amos 7:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Prophet at Bethel
Amos 7:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 7:8 ; Acts 1:8 ; Acts 4:20 ; Acts 5:20 ; Acts 5:29-32 ; Ezekiel 2:3 ; Ezekiel 2:4 ; Jeremiah 1:7 ; Luke 24:46-48 ; Matthew 4:18 ; Matthew 4:19 ; Matthew 9:9 ; Psalms 78:70-72

Amos 7:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 7:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Amos 7:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Amos 7:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Amos 7:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 7:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Amos 7:15 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Amos 7:15 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Amos 7:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Amos 7:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Amos 7:15 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Amos 7:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Amos 7:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Amos 7:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Amos 7:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Amos 7:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Amos 7:15 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 7:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Amos 7:15 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Amos 7:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Amos 7:15 - The Biblical Illustrator

Amos 7:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Amos 7:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Amos 7:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge