{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/wesley/amo005.htm","path":"bib/cmt/wesley/amo005.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/wesley/amo005.htm","text":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley, [1754-65]\n \nAmos 5:2\n \namo 5:2\nThe virgin - So she was, when first espoused to God. Upon her land - Broken to pieces upon her own land, and so left as a broken vessel. \nAmos 5:3\n \namo 5:3\nBy a thousand - That sent out one thousand soldiers. An hundred - Shall lose nine parts of them. \nAmos 5:4\n \namo 5:4\nYe shall live - It shall be well with you. \nAmos 5:5\n \namo 5:5\nSeek not - Consult not, worship not the idol at Bethel, Gilgal, or Beersheba. \nAmos 5:6\n \namo 5:6\nThe house of Joseph - The kingdom of the ten tribes, the chief whereof was Ephraim, the son of Joseph. In Beth - el - If once this fire breaks out, all your idols in Beth - el shall not be able to quench it. \nAmos 5:7\n \namo 5:7\nYe - Rulers and judges. Judgment - The righteous sentence of the law. To wormwood - Proverbially understood; bitterness, injustice and oppression. Leave off - Make to cease in your courts of judicature. \nAmos 5:8\n \namo 5:8\nThe seven stars - A constellation, whose rising about September was usually accompanied with sweet showers. Orion - Which arising about November brings usually cold, rains and frosts intermixt very seasonable for the earth. The shadow of the earth - The greatest adversity into as great prosperity. Dark with might - Changes prosperity into adversity. That calleth - Commands the vapour to ascend, which he turns into rain; and then pours from the clouds to make the earth fruitful. \nAmos 5:9\n \namo 5:9\nThe strong - The mighty, victorious and insolent. Shall come - Shall rally and form a siege against their besiegers. \nAmos 5:10\n \namo 5:10\nThey - The judges and people. In the gate - Where judges sat, and where the prophets many times delivered their message. \nAmos 5:11\n \namo 5:11\nYour treading - You utterly oppress the helpless. Ye take - Ye extort from the poor great quantities of wheat, on which he should live. \nAmos 5:12\n \namo 5:12\nIn the gate - In their courts of justice. \nAmos 5:13\n \namo 5:13\nShall keep silence - Be forced to it. Evil - Both for the sinfulness of it, and for the troubles, wars, and captivity now at hand. \nAmos 5:14\n \namo 5:14\nWith you - To bless and save you yet. \nAmos 5:15\n \namo 5:15\nThe evil - All evil among the people, and yourselves. Love - Commend, encourage, defend: let your heart be toward good things, and good men. Remnant - What the invasions of enemies, or the civil wars have spared, and left in Samaria and Israel. \nAmos 5:16\n \namo 5:16\nTherefore - The prophet foreseeing their obstinacy, proceeds to denounce judgment against them. The husbandman - This sort of men are little used to such ceremonies of mourning, but now such also shall be called upon; leave your toil, betake yourselves to publick mourning. \nAmos 5:17\n \namo 5:17\nVineyards - In these places were usually the greatest joy. Pass through - To punish all every where. \nAmos 5:18\n \namo 5:18\nThat desire - Scoffingly, not believing any such day would come. To what end - What do you think to get by it? Is darkness - All adversity, black and doleful. Not light - No joy, or comfort an it. \nAmos 5:19\n \namo 5:19\nAnd a bear - You may escape one, but shall fall in another calamity. Into the house - At home you may hope for safety, but there other kind of mischief shall meet you. \nAmos 5:21\n \namo 5:21\nI hate - Impure and unholy as they are. Will not smell - A savour, of rest or delight, I will not accept and be pleased with. \nAmos 5:23\n \namo 5:23\nThy songs - Used in their sacrifices, and solemn feasts; herein they imitated the temple - worship, but all was unpleasing to the Lord. Will not hear - Not with delight and acceptance. Thy viols - This one kind of musical instrument is put for all the rest. \nAmos 5:24\n \namo 5:24\nLet judgment - Let justice be administered constantly. Righteousness - Equity. Stream - Bearing down all that opposes it. \nAmos 5:25\n \namo 5:25\nHave ye - Their fathers and they, tho' at so great a distance of time, are one people, and so the prophet considers them. Unto me - Was it to me, or to your idols, that you offered, even in the wilderness? \nAmos 5:26\n \namo 5:26\nYe have borne - Ye carried along with you in the wilderness; the shrine, or canopy in which the image was placed. Moloch - The great idol of the Ammonites. Chiun - Another idol. \nAmos 5:27\n \namo 5:27\nTherefore - For all your idolatry and other sins, in which you have obstinately continued.","title":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible: Amos: Amos Chapter 5","type":"page"}