Amos 5:1
“Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.”
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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
Hear ye the word which I take up against you,.... And which was not his own word, but the word of the Lord; and which he…
Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
In order to impress Israel the more, Amos begins this his third appeal by a “dirge” over its destruction, mourning over…
Adam ClarkeMethodist theologian, 1762–1832
Hear ye this word - Attend to this doleful song which I make for the house of Israel.
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Amos 5:1-3
This chapter begins, as those two next foregoing began, with, Hear this word. Where God has a mouth to speak we must…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921
a dirge] Heb. ḳînâh, which signifies, not a spontaneous effusion of natural emotion, but a composition, longer or…
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