Amos 7:6

The Lord repented for this,.... He heard the prophet's prayer, and desisted from going on with the threatened destruction:

this also shall not be, saith the Lord God; the whole land shall not be destroyed, only a part of it carried captive.

Related Commentaries of Amos 7:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

He adds, that God was again pacified. We must ever bear in mind the object he had in view; for ungodly men thought the Prophets to be liars, wh...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD. Ver. 6. The Lord repented for this ] As he is gracious, Exodus 22:27 , an...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Intercession for Israel; Ruin of Israel Foretold. B. C. 785....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

These two verses are almost word for word the same with Amos 7:2,3 , which see.
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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

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...
The Biblical Illustrator

O Lord, forgive, I beseech Thee. .. The Lord repented for this: It shall not be, saith the Lord. Intercession for pardon prevailing I. Concerni...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Verse 1-ch. 9:10 Part III . FIVE VISIONS , WITH EXPLANATIONS , CONTINUING AND CONFIRMING THE PREVIOUS PROPHECY ....
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Visions of the Grasshoppers, of the Fire, and of the Plumb-Line.
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Lord repented for this. This also shall not be, saith the Lord God, as little as the punishment of the first vision.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 26:19 ; Jonah 4:2 ; Judges 10:16 ; Judges 2:18 ; Psalms 135:14 ; Psalms 90:13

⁶ The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.

Related Commentaries of Amos 7:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the 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 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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 7:6