Amos 1

Amos 1:2

The avenging judgments of that God, who dwells in his temple on Mount Zion, shall, in a terrible manner, lay waste all the countries around, however fertile and populous 3, 6, 9, 11, 13. Three, four, or seven, transgressions denote that they have filled up the measure of their iniquities. 4, 7, 10, 12, 14. Fire denotes 105 117* furious enemies and destructive judgments

Amos 1:3-5

Because the Syrians, whose capital is Damascus, have, to all their other wickedness, added the terrible oppression and murder of the Hebrews on the east of Jordan, I will cause the Assyrians to destroy their cities and forts, murder their people and princes and carry the poor remains captives to Media

Amos 1:6-8

Because the Philistines have completed their wickedness, by apprehending the Hebrews in their distress, and giving them up to the cruel Edomites, I will, by the Assyrians, Chaldeans, Maccabees, and others utterly destroy their cities, rulers, and people

Amos 1:9-15

For their treachery and cruelty, the Edomites and Ammonites shall be served in like manner

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. I.-No person need be ashamed of a mean, if honest, original. God can qualify the meanest for the most honourable work. But dreadful is the case of the mightiest nations when the measure of their iniquities is filled up, and the hour of God’s judgment is come. Nothing more hastens their destruction than their oppression or murder of the saints, or implacable enmity against near relations. Walls, palaces, cities, or armies, are altogether ineffectual to withstand the power of God’s wrath. And they who spitefully, covetously, and cruelly, thought to drive out others, are often themselves driven out from their dwellings