Amos 7:2; Amos 7:3; Isaiah 1:9; Isaiah 10:25; Jeremiah 30:19; Psalms 85:4
As our Lord repeated the same words in the Garden, so Amos interceded with God with words, all but one, the same, and with the same plea, that, if...
The Vision of Fire. Another time the prophet saw a fire-phenomenon. Yahweh ( Amos 7:4 ) called down a fire to punish (or judge). This devoured the...
Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small. No JFB commentary on these verses.
Three Visions and an Interruption 1-9. The visions. 10-17 . The interruption. There are two senses in which the word 'Vision' may be used of on...
Instead of “forgive,” the prophet now only ventures to say “cease,” a cry for arrest of judgment. Yet the same plea for pity is urged as before. Jero...
5. THE PROPHET AND HIS MINISTRY Amos 7:1-17 - Amos 8:1-4 We have seen the preparation of the Man for the Word; we have sought to trace to its...
the Herdsman's Message Amos 7:1-17 The king's mowings were the earliest yield of the grasslands, which were exacted by him. Our King also has...
In this division the prophet gave a fivefold vision of judgment, introduced in the first four cases by the words, "The Lord God showed me." The last...
The subject in these verses is the same, but the figure is changed. Under the image of fire, and so tremendous as to devour the great deep, the ruin...
WEAKNESS AND STRENGTH ‘By whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.’ Amos 7:5 As uttered by the prophet, this may be regarded as the language...
Then said I, O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee ,.... From destroying the land; suffer not this calamity to proceed any further; using the same argum...
Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he [is] small. Ver. 5. Then said I, O Lord God, cease, I beseech th...
The Lord God called to contend by fire , &c. This represented a sorer judgment than the former, and, in the opinion of some expositors, denoted...
Intercession for Israel; Ruin of Israel Foretold. B. C. 785....
No text from Poole on this verse.
The Four Visions ( Amos 7:1 to Amos 8:14 ). In a similar way to the seven judgments in Amos 1:2 to Amos 2:5 , followed by the expanded judgme...
The Second Vision - The Consuming Fire ( Amos 7:4-6 ). We must remember that this was a vision not something that actually happened. It commenced...
CRITICAL NOTES . ] Showed ] three visions in this ch. Locusts ( Amos 7:1-3 ) the first; “all inward tuitions produced by the Spirit of God, which...
Amos 7:1-3 . Thus hath the Lord God showed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; a...
Amos 7:1 . He formed grasshoppers, which are the same as the locusts. After the king's mowings. It is supposed that the first grass, or the prou...
O Lord, forgive, I beseech Thee. .. The Lord repented for this: It shall not be, saith the Lord. Intercession for pardon prevailing I. Concerni...
EXPOSITION Verse 1-ch. 9:10 Part III . FIVE VISIONS , WITH EXPLANATIONS , CONTINUING AND CONFIRMING THE PREVIOUS PROPHECY ....
The Visions of the Grasshoppers, of the Fire, and of the Plumb-Line.
Then said I, O Lord God, cease, I beseech Thee; by whom shall Jacob arise? For he is small, the prophet thus once more interceding in behalf of his s...
5 Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.