2 Corinthians 6:14-16; Genesis 17:1; Genesis 5:22; Genesis 6:9
Sacred parables or enigmas must have many meanings. They are cast on the mind, to quicken it and rouse it by their very mystery. They are taken fro...
Can two walk together, except they be (b) agreed? (b) By this the Prophet signifies that he speaks not of himself, but as God guides and moves him,...
Israel's Responsibility and the Prophet's Obligation. Amos, after addressing the children of Israel, includes Judah by adding the whole family, unl...
Can two... ? Figure of speech Erotesis (in negative affirmation). App-6. This is the first of five parables. The answer to each is self-evident,...
The Prophet here accumulates similitudes which may, however, be reduced to five particulars. He first shows that he uttered no empty words, but...
DISCOURSE: 1186 REQUISITES FOR FRIENDSHIP WITH GOD Amos 3:3 . Can two walk together, except they be agreed? IT is not always safe to judge of...
Can two walk together, except they be agreed? Can two walk together - While ye loved and served me, I dwelt in you and walked among you. Now ye are b...
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...
Can two walk together, except they be agreed? Here follow several questions of a parable-like kind, to awaken conviction in the people. Can...
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,...
Be agreed] RV 'have agreed,' have made an appointment. If two people were seen walking together in the desolate regions with which Amos was familia...
Two. — Who are the two here represented? Some commentators say, two prophets; Rosenmüller, “God and the prophet.” But Grotius, Lowth, Henderson, an...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
A PAIR OF FRIENDS ‘Can two walk together, except they be agreed?’ Amos 3:3 There is instruction in the very way in which this text is introd...
Can two walk together except they be agreed ?] Unless they meet together, and appoint time and place, when and where they shall set out, what road t...
Can two walk together, except they be agreed? Ver. 3. Can two walk together, except they be agreed ] God permits his people to walk together with...
Can two walk together Comfortably as friends; except they be agreed Except they be in peace with each other? So neither can I conduct myself towa...
God's Remonstrance with Israel. B. C. 790. ...
Here the prophet threatens this people that God would begin his visitations and their punishments in his forsaking them, and doth by this interrogato...
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...
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...
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...
Amos 3:3 The words of our text are in themselves so general, that they might very well stand alone as a proverbial truth, capable of a vast variet...
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...
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...
Can two walk together, except they be agreed? Agreement with God Order is the first law of heaven’s empire. In the material world God has secur...
EXPOSITION Verse 1-ch. 6:14 Part II . THREE ADDRESSES PARTICULARIZING THE SINS OF ISRAEL AND ANNOUNCING IMMINENT JUDGME...
The Lord Ready to Punish
Can two walk together except they be agreed? This and the following propositions, bringing out illustrations from daily life, are intended to substan...
Agreed — Can you have God's presence while you walk so contrary to him?
3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed?