“ The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD. ”
As our Lord repeated the same words in the Garden, so Amos interceded with God with words, all but one, the same, and with the same plea, that, if God did not help, Israel was indeed helpless. Yet...
The Vision of Fire. Another time the prophet saw a fire-phenomenon. Yahweh ( Amos 7:4 ) called down a fire to punish (or judge). This devoured the great deep ( Genesis 1:6 f.*), whence came the ri...
He adds, that God was again pacified. We must ever bear in mind the object he had in view; for ungodly men thought the Prophets to be liars, whenever God did not immediately execute the vengean...
The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.
Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small. No JFB commentary on these verses.
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...
Instead of “forgive,” the prophet now only ventures to say “cease,” a cry for arrest of judgment. Yet the same plea for pity is urged as before. Jeroboam II. and his house are spared for awhile. But...
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 subject in these verses is the same, but the figure is changed. Under the image of fire, and so tremendous as to devour the great deep, the ruin of the people is set forth. But, here as before, t...
The Lord repented for this ,.... He heard the prophet's prayer, and desisted from going on with the threatened destruction: this also shall not be, saith the Lord God ; the whole land shall not be...
The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD. Ver. 6. The Lord repented for this ] As he is gracious, Exodus 22:27 , and quickly repenteth him of the evil, Joel 2:13 ....
The Lord God called to contend by fire , &c. This represented a sorer judgment than the former, and, in the opinion of some expositors, denoted the invasion of Tiglath-pileser, who carried a gre...
Intercession for Israel; Ruin of Israel Foretold. B. C. 785. 1 Thus hath the Lord G OD...
These two verses are almost word for word the same with Amos 7:2,3 , which see.
The Four Visions ( Amos 7:1 to Amos 8:14 ). In a similar way to the seven judgments in Amos 1:2 to Amos 2:5 , followed by the expanded judgment on Israel, which all initially followed a simil...
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 ]...
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.
Jeremiah 26:19 ; Jonah 4:2 ; Judges 10:16 ; Judges 2:18 ; Psalms 135:14 ; Psalms 90:13