Amos 6:1

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; Jeremiah 48:11; Jeremiah 49:31; Jeremiah 7:4; Judges 18:7; Lamentations 1:1; Luke 12:17-20; Luke 6:24; Luke 6:25

Related Commentaries of Amos 6:1

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

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...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

'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...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Trust. — The word for “trust” is a participle, and we should translate as the parallelism indicates: the confident (or complacent ) dwellers in...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“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...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

CONTENTS Here is a cry to the Church. The wanton state of professors described; and the Lord's determination to punish.
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

‘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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Danger of False Security. B. C. 790. ...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Second Woe On Those Who Complacently Relaxed, Depending On YHWH's Protection, While They Also Totally Ignored His Requirements ( Amos 6:1-14 )....
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

HOMILETICS CRITICAL NOTES.] Second woe denounced. Ease ] Recklessly and carelessly. Mount .] not in God. Sam .] Strong, which resisted for 3...
Scofield Reference Notes

trust ( See Scofield) - ( Psalms 2:12 ).
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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

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...
The Biblical Illustrator

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...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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 Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The People Guilty of Security and Luxury
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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!

Related Commentaries of Amos 6:1

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)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit 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

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Scofield Reference Notes

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

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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