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( See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12).
Woe to them that are at ease - The word always means such as are recklessly at their ease, “the careless ones,” such as those whom Isaiah bids I...
Woe to (a) them [that are] at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, (b) [which are] named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Is...
The Luxury of Israel's Rulers. Extravagance in ritual often indicates a perverted sense of what constitutes a true philosophy of life. The price of...
'Woe. The second woe. See Amos 5:18 . them: i.e. the nobles of Judah, in comparison with the nobles of Israel (in Samaria) its the next clause. at...
The Prophet now directs his discourse not only to the Israelites, to whom he was especially given as an instructor and teacher, but includes th...
DISCOURSE: 1192 CARNAL EASE AND SECURITY REPROVED Amos 6:1 . Woe to them that are at ease in Zion . ONE would scarcely conceive it possible, th...
Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel cam...
Woe to them that are at ease— Houbigant reads very properly, Woe to them that despise Sion; for there was a perpetual rivalship between Sion and...
The Fourth Address 1-3. False security of Judah and Israel. 4-6 . Carelessness and luxury. 7-11 . Captivity, siege, death, ruin. 12, 13 . Pr...
Trust. — The word for “trust” is a participle, and we should translate as the parallelism indicates: the confident (or complacent ) dwellers in...
3. "AT EASE IN ZION" Amos 6:1-14 The evil of the national worship was the false political confidence which it engendered. Leaving the ritual al...
“Woe to Them That Are at Ease in Zion!” Amos 6:1-14 Zion is included with Samaria in this prophecy and the nobles are especially condemned for...
From the formalists the prophet turned toward those who had lost all sense of the spiritual and the moral, and were indifferent, those were ''at ease...
CONTENTS Here is a cry to the Church. The wanton state of professors described; and the Lord's determination to punish.
What is here said of Zion, in the days of the Prophet Amos, is equally applicable to the Church in all days. There is nothing more foreign to a state...
‘AT EASE IN ZION’ ‘Woe to them that are at ease in Zion.’ Amos 6:1 I. There is a great difference between being at ease and being contented...
Woe to them [that are] at ease in Zion ,.... Or "secure" c there; which was a strong hold, the city of David, the seat of the kings of Judah; where...
Woe to them [that are] at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, [which are] named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel cam...
Wo to them that are at ease in Zion Who are secure , as the margin reads, continuing in their sins, fearless of God's judgments, and resolved to i...
The Danger of False Security. B. C. 790. ...
AMOS CHAPTER 6 The voluptuousness of Israel, Amos 6:1-6 , shall be punished with desolation, Amos 6:7-11 . Their perversion of justice and va...
The Second Woe On Those Who Complacently Relaxed, Depending On YHWH's Protection, While They Also Totally Ignored His Requirements ( Amos 6:1-14 )....
HOMILETICS CRITICAL NOTES.] Second woe denounced. Ease ] Recklessly and carelessly. Mount .] not in God. Sam .] Strong, which resisted for 3...
Amos was a herdsman, and a gatherer of sycamore fruit. His words are rugged, but sometimes he rises to sublimity. His expressions are somewhat dark,...
Amos 6:1 . The mountain of Samaria. This city was built on a hill, like Zion, to make it impregnable. See note on Isaiah 28:1 . Amos 6:2 . Cal...
Woe to them that are at ease in Zion. The secure alarmed There is something very agreeable and desirable in ease. Yet, strange as the declarati...
EXPOSITION Amos 6:1-30 With a second woe the prophet denounces the chiefs of the whole nation, who were quite satisfied with the present st...
Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, given to a false security, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, those who are apparently without a care as t...
The People Guilty of Security and Luxury
1 Kings 16:24 ; 1 Peter 5:7 ; Amos 4:1 ; Amos 8:14 ; Exodus 19:5 ; Exodus 19:6 ; Isaiah 32:9-11 ; Isaiah 33:14 ; James 1:18 ; James 5:5 ;...
At ease — That neither fear nor believe the threatened judgments of God. In Zion — That is put for the kingdom of the two tribes, and principally t...
1 Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!