“ The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD. ”
The Lord repented for this - God is said to “repent, to have strong compassion upon” or “over” evil, which He has either inflicted Deuteronomy 32:36 ; 1 Chronicles 21:15 , or has said that He w...
The LORD (c) repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD. (c) That is, stopped this plague at my prayer.
The Vision of the Locusts. On one occasion the prophet saw ( Amos 7:1 ) and behold, Yahweh formed locusts at the beginning of the coming up of the late spring grass ( lekesh , RV latter growth), th...
The LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4. repented. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6 Reference to Pentateuch ( Deuteronomy 32:36 ). App-92. Compare Jonah 3:10 .
DISCOURSE: 1193 GOD’S CONDESCENSION TO PRAYER Amos 7:2-3 . Then I said, O Lord God, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small. The Lord repented for this: It shall not...
The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD. The Lord repented - Changed his purpose of destroying them by the locusts. See Amos 7:6 .
The Lord repented for this— The Lord changed his purpose concerning this matter. Houbigant. See Amos 7:6 .
The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD. The Lord repented for this - i:e., OF this. The Lord, after the awful visitation by locusts, and when Israel's power had been redu...
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...
The Lord repented. — The judgment is withheld. On the anthropomorphism of Jehovah repenting, comp. Genesis 6:5 and other passages.
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...
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...
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...
The Prophet is here preaching by figure, in vision perhaps it might be; and by a multitude of grasshoppers, he points out the certain ruin of the country by famine. If we compare this scripture with...
The Lord repented for this ,.... He heard the prayer of the prophet, and at his intercession averted, the threatened judgment; thus the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much, Jame...
The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD. Ver. 3. The Lord repented for this: It shall not be, saith the Lord] Here was mutatio rei, non Dei; facti, non consilii: a change, not...
When they had made an end of eating the grass With us grasshoppers are not hurtful, but those in our text were locusts , as the word גבי, here used, is rendered, Isaiah 33:4 : in which sense the...
Intercession for Israel; Ruin of Israel Foretold. B. C. 785. 1 Thus hath the Lord G OD...
The Lord repented; this, spoke after the manner of man, is to be understood as becomes the immutability and omniscience of God; what a man when he repenteth doth, desisting front the thing, so God,...
The First Vision - The Locust Swarm ( Amos 7:1-3 ). In this vision ‘the Lord YHWH' showed Amos the forming of a huge swarm of locusts which devoured the vegetation of the whole land. Amos, a farme...
CRITICAL NOTES . ] Showed ] three visions in this ch. Locusts ( Amos 7:1-3 ) the first; “all inward tuitions produced by the Spirit of God, which set forth the primitive judgments of God” [ Keil ]...
repented ( See Scofield) - ( Zechariah 8:14 ).
Amos 7:1-3 . Thus hath the Lord God showed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's...
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...
O Lord, forgive, I beseech Thee. .. The Lord repented for this: It shall not be, saith the Lord. Intercession for pardon prevailing I. Concerning intercession. 1. This intercession was made...
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...
The Visions of the Grasshoppers, of the Fire, and of the Plumb-Line.
1 Chronicles 21:15 ; Amos 7:6 ; Deuteronomy 32:36 ; Hosea 11:8 ; James 5:16 ; Joel 2:14 ; Jonah 3:10 ; Psalms 106:45
Repented — This is spoken after the manner of men.