remnant
( See Scofield) - (Jeremiah 15:21).
Hate the evil and love the good - Man will not cease wholly to “seek evil,” unless he “hate” it; nor will he “seek good,” unless he “love” it. Je...
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...
Hate the evil, he. Compare Psalms 34:14 ; Psalms 97:10 ; Romans 12:9 , This concludes the last of the three exhortations. it may be . Hebrew....
The Prophet inculcates the same truth; and he did this designedly; for he saw that nothing was more difficult than to bring this people to repe...
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Josep...
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of J...
The Third Address 1-6. A lament, a warning, and an invitation. 7, 10-20 . Denunciation of injustice and oppression, with threats of pestilence a...
The remnant ] At best a mere fraction will escape. 16, 17. Streets] RV 'broad ways': what we call squares and open spaces. The wailing is the t...
Break in like a beam of sunshine in the darkness. The fearful doom, already spoken of, is after all conditional. Let a moral change be wrought in the...
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...
“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...
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...
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, implie...
SEEKING GOOD, AND HATING EVIL ‘Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken....
Hate the evil, and love the good ,.... Evil is not only not to be sought, but to be hated, especially the evil of sin, because of its evil nature, a...
Seek good, and not evil Give your minds to the practice of true piety and virtue. Do that which is just and good, and endeavour to make others do t...
God's Message to Israel; The Aggravated Sins of Israel; Warnings and Exhortations; Exhortations and Encouragements....
Slight dislikes will do little in this ease, you rulers and judges must heartily hate, and show that you hate, the evil, both ways, doings, contriv...
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 judgme...
The Second Call To Repentance ( Amos 5:14-15 ). So the call went out to those who would hear to seek good and not evil so that they might enjoy fu...
CRITICAL NOTES . ] Amos 5:14 . Spoken] They fancied that God was with them by virtue of the covenant with Abraham ( John 8:39 ). Amos 5:15 ....
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 Chr...
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 Isra...
The Lord of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph. A remnant saved There is a mystery of mercy in the destruction and salvation; bu...
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 t...
Woe upon Fools and Hypocrites
Hate the evil and love the good, Cf Romans 12:9 , and establish judgment in the gate, so that justice would truly be administered in all cases bro...
1 Kings 20:31 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:21 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:22 ; 2 Chronicles 19:6-11 ; 2 Kings 13:7 ; 2 Kings 14:26 ; 2 Kings 14:27 ; 2 Kings 1...
The evil — All evil among the people, and yourselves. Love — Commend, encourage, defend: let your heart be toward good things, and good men. Remnan...
15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.