Amos 3:4

Will... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6.

forest = thicket.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? - Then, further, each question by itself suggests its own thought. Amos had already, in rep...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Will a (c) lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing? (c) Will God threaten by h...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Israel's Responsibility and the Prophet's Obligation. Amos, after addressing the children of Israel, includes Judah by adding the whole family, unl...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The second similitude follows, Will a lion roar in the forest without a prey? Will a lion send forth his voice from his den when he has caugh...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing? Will a lion roar - Should I thr...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Can two walk, &c.— The similies in these verses have the same meaning, and they all tend to shew that calamities happen according to the appoin...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing? Will a lion roar in the...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The First Address 1-8. A call to attention. 9, 10. The oppressions practised by the powerful. 11-15 . The disasters which should overtake them,...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Lion. — The questions suggest that the prey is being seized. This is intimated by the lion’s roar, the loud roar of the lion in the forest, the gro...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CIVILIZATION AND JUDGMENT Amos 3:1-15 - Amos 4:3 WE now enter the Second Section of the Book of Amos: Chapter s 3-6. It is a collection of va...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Amos 3:3-8 , Amos 7:14-15 THE MAN AND THE PROPHET THE Book of Amos opens one of the greatest stages in the religious development of mankind....
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Lord's Word Must Come True Amos 3:1-15 The closer our relationship with God, the more searching His scrutiny and chastening. The sins of Go...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Having thus uttered the declamations of Jehovah's judgment on all the nations, the prophet delivered his special message to Israel in a series of thr...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The Lord is going on in his expostulations. He first shews, that by Israel's revolt that sweet communion between the Lord and his people was interrup...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Will a lion roar in the forest when he hath no prey ?.... He will not, unless he has it in his sight, or in his paws; he roars when he first sees it...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing? Ver. 4. Will a lion roar in...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Will a lion roar, &c., when he hath no prey? “Naturalists assert that when the lion sees his prey, he roars before he rushes on it; and that at...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

God's Remonstrance with Israel. B. C. 790. ...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

In this verse, by a double similitude, Amos certifieth the Jews of near and inevitable punishment; first, by similitude of a lion roaring at sight of...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Covenant Relationship Between YHWH And His People ( Amos 3:1-8 ). The covenant relationship between YHWH and His people is revealed in this ca...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Inevitability Of Judgment, Both Because Of What YHWH Is, And Because He Will Act ( Amos 3:1-10 ). Following up on the idea in Amos 2:9-10 Am...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES .] Amos 3:3 . Two] The prophet and the Spirit of God. Israel did not believe that God threatened such denunciations by the p...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Amos 3:1 . Against the whole family of the twelve tribes, which I brought up from Egypt. It was a laborious work to make them hear. The prophets...
The Biblical Illustrator

You only have I known of all the families of the earth. Sin in the highly-favoured This is shameful ingratitude. The honour and blessing confer...
The Biblical Illustrator

Will a lion roar in the forest when he hath no prey? Retribution I. Retribution springs out of the nature of things. Poiset, in his travels, st...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Verse 1-ch. 6:14 Part II . THREE ADDRESSES PARTICULARIZING THE SINS OF ISRAEL AND ANNOUNCING IMMINENT JUDGME...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Lord Ready to Punish
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Will a lion roar in the forest when he hath no prey? Jehovah is the lion, and His roaring is that of satisfaction over the certainty that His prey ca...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 1:2 ; Amos 3:8 ; Hosea 11:10 ; Psalms 104:21

⁴ Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?

Related Commentaries of Amos 3:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 3:4