Amos 3:8

1 Corinthians 9:16; Acts 4:20; Acts 5:20; Acts 5:29; Amos 2:12; Amos 7:12-17; Amos 1:2; Amos 3:4; Jeremiah 20:9; Job 32:18; Job 32:19; Revelation 5:5

Related Commentaries of Amos 3:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Lion hath roared: who will not fear? The Lord God hath spoken: who can but prophesy? - that is, there is cause for you to fear, when the Lord...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but (i) prophesy? (i) Because the people always murmured against the Prop...
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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

The lion bath roared. Figure of speech Hypocatastasis. App-6. the Lord GOD hath spoken. Figure of speech Hermeneia. App-6. Explaining the Figur...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

It now follows, The lion roars who would not fear? The Lord Jehovah speaks, who would not prophesy? In this verse the Prophet reproved the I...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1188 GOD’S VOICE TO SINNERS Amos 3:8 . The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy? THE...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy? The lion hath roared - God hath sent forth a terrible alarm,...
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

The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy? The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord Go...
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

Roared. — Comp. the imagery of Amos 1:2 , and that of Amos 3:4 . The voice of the Lord is so audible, so clearly portending the coming judgment,...
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

The lion hath roared, who will not fear ?.... Amos said this from his own experience, who, having been a herdsman in the wilderness of Tekoa, had of...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy? Ver. 8. The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Lord will do nothing, but he revealeth , &c. As if he had said, You cannot complain of your not being forewarned of these calamities coming...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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

The lion hath roared; God hath threatened; and, as a lion roareth when near his prey, so God hath terribly threatened what is near to be done. Amos...
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 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

The lion hath roared, in sounding the warning of his approach, who will not fear? The Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy? Amos was simply c...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Hath roared — As a lion roareth when near his prey: so God hath terribly threatened what is near to be done. Prophesy — Amos can not but speak what...

⁸ The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?

Related Commentaries of Amos 3:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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 Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Amos 3:8