Amos 6:12

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The two images both represent a toil, which people would condemn as absurd, destructive, as well as fruitless. The horse’s hoofs or his limbs would...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Shall horses (n) run upon the rock? will [one] plow [there] with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into (o)...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Miserable Fate of these Rulers. Yahweh solemnly declares ( Amos 6:8 ) that the pride ( mg.) of Jacob, the vainglory which has displaced true g...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Shall horses... will... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. there or, supply "[the seal". for. Supply "[with equal madness]". hemlock. Referen...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

This verse interpreters misrepresent; for some think that the Prophet, by these figurative expressions, means, that the people were wholly unpr...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Shall horses run, &c.— Shall horses run upon the sharp rock, or shall it be plowed with oxen? Because ye have turned, &c. As much as to s...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock...
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

The questions require a negative answer, and show that the conduct of Israel is as inconsistent and senseless as the supposition involved in the inte...
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

Probably the captivity here spoken of, in the first sense, had a reference to the Babylonish captivity. But I humbly conceive it had respect to anoth...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Shall horses run upon the rocks? or will [one] plough [there] with oxen ?.... Will any man be so weak and foolish, to propose or attempt a race for...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Shall horses run upon the rock? will [one] plow [there] with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Shall horses run upon the rock? “Is it possible that horses should run upon the steep and craggy cliffs? So impossible is it that ye Israelites sho...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Threatenings of Judgment. B. C. 790. ...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Shall horses run upon the rock? would it not be dangerous to horse and rider? If prophets and pious men exhort, threaten, or advise, they endanger...
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

CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 6:12 .] As horses and oxen are useless on a rock, so ye are incapable of fulfilling justice [ Grotius ]. The comparison...
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

Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plough there with oxen? Labour in vain These expressions are proverbs, taken from the familiar saying...
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

The Destruction of the Kingdom Foretold
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Shall horses run upon the rock? Will one plow there with oxen? As little as either feat is possible, so little is it possible that one, by perverting...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Shall horses — If prophets exhort or advise, it does no more good than if you would run your horses upon the precipices of rocks.

¹² Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:

Related Commentaries of Amos 6:12

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

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

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

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 6:12