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Text -- Amos 4:1-11 (NET)
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4:1 Listen to this message , you cows of Bashan who live on Mount Samaria ! You oppress the poor ; you crush the needy . You say to your husbands , “Bring us more to drink !”
4:2 The sovereign Lord confirms this oath by his own holy character: “Certainly the time is approaching when you will be carried away in baskets , every last one of you in fishermen’s pots .
4:3 Each of you will go straight through the gaps in the walls; you will be thrown out toward Harmon .” The Lord is speaking !
Israel has an Appointment with God
4:4 “Go to Bethel and rebel ! At Gilgal rebel some more ! Bring your sacrifices in the morning , your tithes on the third day !
4:5 Burn a thank offering of bread made with yeast ! Make a public display of your voluntary offerings ! For you love to do this , you Israelites .” The sovereign Lord is speaking !
4:6 “But surely I gave you no food to eat in any of your cities ; you lacked food everywhere you live . Still you did not come back to me.” The Lord is speaking !
4:7 “I withheld rain from you three months before the harvest . I gave rain to one city , but not to another . One field would get rain , but the field that received no rain dried up .
4:8 People from two or three cities staggered into one city to get water , but remained thirsty . Still you did not come back to me.” The Lord is speaking !
4:9 “I destroyed your crops with blight and disease . Locusts kept devouring your orchards , vineyards , fig trees , and olive trees . Still you did not come back to me.” The Lord is speaking !
4:10 “I sent against you a plague like one of the Egyptian plagues. I killed your young men with the sword , along with the horses you had captured . I made the stench from the corpses rise up into your nostrils . Still you did not come back to me.” The Lord is speaking !
4:11 “I overthrew some of you the way God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah . You were like a burning stick snatched from the flames . Still you did not come back to me.” The Lord is speaking !
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NET Notes -> Amo 4:1; Amo 4:1; Amo 4:1; Amo 4:1; Amo 4:2; Amo 4:2; Amo 4:2; Amo 4:2; Amo 4:2; Amo 4:2; Amo 4:2; Amo 4:2; Amo 4:3; Amo 4:3; Amo 4:3; Amo 4:4; Amo 4:4; Amo 4:4; Amo 4:4; Amo 4:4; Amo 4:4; Amo 4:5; Amo 4:5; Amo 4:6; Amo 4:6; Amo 4:7; Amo 4:7; Amo 4:8; Amo 4:8; Amo 4:8; Amo 4:9; Amo 4:9; Amo 4:9; Amo 4:10; Amo 4:10; Amo 4:11; Amo 4:11; Amo 4:11; Amo 4:11
NET Notes: Amo 4:1 Some commentators relate this scene to the description of the marzeah feast of 6:3-6, in which drinking played a prominent part (see the note at 6:6).
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NET Notes: Amo 4:2 The imagery of catching fish in connection with the captivity of Israel is also found in Jer 16:16 and Hab 1:14.
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NET Notes: Amo 4:3 The meaning of this word is unclear. Many understand it as a place name, though such a location is not known. Some (e.g., H. W. Wolff, Joel and Amos [...
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NET Notes: Amo 4:6 Heb “But I gave to you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of food in all your places.” The phrase “cleanness of teeth...
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NET Notes: Amo 4:7 Heb “portion”; KJV, ASV “piece”; NASB “part.” The same word occurs a second time later in this verse.
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