Amos 3:3

Agreed — Can you have God's presence while you walk so contrary to him?

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

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,...
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

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,...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The Prophet here accumulates similitudes which may, however, be reduced to five particulars. He first shows that he uttered no empty words, but...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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

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...
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

Can two walk together, except they be agreed? Here follow several questions of a parable-like kind, to awaken conviction in the people. Can...
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,...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Two. — Who are the two here represented? Some commentators say, two prophets; Rosenmüller, “God and the prophet.” But Grotius, Lowth, Henderson, an...
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...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

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

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...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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

Here the prophet threatens this people that God would begin his visitations and their punishments in his forsaking them, and doth by this interrogato...
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...
Sermon Bible Commentary

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...
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 Biblical Illustrator

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...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Lord Ready to Punish
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Can two walk together except they be agreed? This and the following propositions, bringing out illustrations from daily life, are intended to substan...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 6:14-16 ; Genesis 17:1 ; Genesis 5:22 ; Genesis 6:9

³ Can two walk together, except they be agreed?

Related Commentaries of Amos 3:3

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

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

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

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 3:3