Amos 5:24

rundown. roll on. Reference to Gilgal

mighty. inexhaustible.

stream. Hebrew. nahal =. wady, or intermittent stream; not nahar,. constant-flowing river.

Related Commentaries of Amos 5:24

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But - (And) let judgment run down (Literally, “roll” English margin) “like water.” The duties of either table include both; since there is no tru...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

But let judgment run down as (m) waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. (m) Do your duty to God, and to your neighbour, and so you will plent...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Israel's Delusions. The prophet resumes the subject of Israel's delusions, how she disregards the essential conditions of real welfare. In Amos 5:...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Interpreters variously expound this verse. To some it seems an exhortation, as though the Prophet said, “Ye thrust on me victims of beasts and...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. Let judgment run down - Let the execution of justice be everywhere like th...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. But let judgment - justice. Run down - literally, roll, i:e.,...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Mighty stream. — Or rather perennial stream.
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

a Dark Day for Hypocrites Amos 5:16-27 Mighty sins had been committed, and mighty judgments were at hand. The oppression of the poor, Amos 5:1...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

We have here the Lord's threatenings concerning the captivity of the people, and which we know came to pass. Stephen, the first martyr, made a quotat...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But let judgments run down as waters ,.... Or "roll" o; in abundance, with great rapidity, bearing down all before them, which nothing can resist; s...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. Ver. 24. But let judgment run down ] Heb. roll down freely, plentifully...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I hate and despise your feast-days This and the three following verses are the same in sense with Isaiah 1:11-16 , and the other texts referred to...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Hypocritical Services Rejected; Threatenings against Israel. B. C. 790....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

But, Heb. And judgment: some interpret this of penal judgment, by God threatened against these hypocrites; but it is better understood of justi...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The First Woe, Concerning The Day of YHWH ( Amos 5:18-27 ). A ‘woe' was the opposite of a ‘blessed be you of YHWH'. It was the announcing of troub...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Day Of Darkness Is Coming Because Of The Falsity of Their Worship In That While They Worship They Ignore Justice And Righteousness ( Amos 5:21-2...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES . ] Amos 5:24 . Run] judgments like a flood over the land [ Keil ]. Others take it as an exhortation to practise justice and trut...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 Biblical Illustrator

I hate, I despise your feast days. The Divinely abhorrent and the Divinely demanded I. The Divinely abhorrent. The same aversion from the cerem...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Woe upon Fools and Hypocrites
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

But let judgment, the just punishment of the Lord, run down as waters, in a great and consuming flood, and righteousness, namely, that of the div...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 5:14 ; Amos 5:15 ; Amos 5:7 ; Hosea 6:6 ; Job 29:12-17 ; Micah 6:8 ; Mark 12:32-34 ; Proverbs 21:3
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Let judgment — Let justice be administered constantly. Righteousness — Equity. Stream — Bearing down all that opposes it.

²⁴ But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

Related Commentaries of Amos 5:24

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

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)

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

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Amos 5:24