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<P><FONT SIZE=+3>Amos</FONT></P>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC30001.HTM">Chapter 1</A>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC30002.HTM">Chapter 2</A>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC30003.HTM">Chapter 3</A>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC30004.HTM">Chapter 4</A>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC30005.HTM">Chapter 5</A>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC30006.HTM">Chapter 6</A>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC30007.HTM">Chapter 7</A>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC30008.HTM">Chapter 8</A>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC30009.HTM">Chapter 9</A>
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<P><B>AN</B></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+2>EXPOSITION,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+1>W I T H P R A C T I C A L O B S E R V A T I O N S,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=-1>OF THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+3><B>A M O S.</B></FONT>
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T<FONT SIZE=-1>HOUGH</FONT> this prophet appeared a little before
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Isaiah, yet he was not, as some have mistaken, that Amos who was the
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father of Isaiah
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Isa+1:1">Isa. i. 1</A>),
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for in the Hebrew their names are very different; their families too
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were of a different character, for Isaiah was a courtier, Amos a
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country-farmer. Amos signifies a <I>burden,</I> whence the Jews have a
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tradition that he was of a slow tongue and spoke with stammering lips;
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we may rather, in allusion to his name, say that his speech was
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<I>weighty</I> and his word the <I>burden of the Lord.</I> He was (as
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most think) of Judah, yet prophesied chiefly against Israel, and at
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Bethel,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Am+7:13"><I>ch.</I> vii. 13</A>.
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Some think his style savours of his extraction, and is more plain and
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rustic than that of some other of the prophets; I do not see it so; but
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it is plain that his matter agreed with that of his contemporary Hosea,
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that <I>out of the mouth of these two witnesses the word might be
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established.</I> It appears by his contest with Amaziah the priest of
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Bethel that he met with opposition in his work, but was a man of
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undaunted resolution in it, faithful and bold in reproving sin and
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denouncing the judgments of God for it, and pressing in his
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exhortations to repentance and reformation. He begins with
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threatenings against the neighbouring nations that were enemies to
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Am+1:1-2:32"><I>ch.</I> i. and ii.</A>
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He then calls Israel to account, and judges them for their idolatry,
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their unworthy walking under the favours God had bestowed upon them,
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and their incorrigibleness under his judgments,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Am+3:1-4:13"><I>ch.</I> iii. and iv.</A>
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He calls them to repentance
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Am+5:1-27">
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<I>ch.</I> v.</A>),
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rejecting their hypocritical sacrifices unless they did repent. He
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foretels the desolations that were coming upon them notwithstanding
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their security
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Am+6:1-14"><I>ch.</I> vi.</A>),
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some particular judgments
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Am+7:1-17"><I>ch.</I> vii.</A>),
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particularly on Amaziah; and, after other reproofs and threatenings
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Am+8:1-9:15"><I>ch.</I> viii. and ix.</A>),
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concludes with a promise of the setting up of the Messiah's kingdom and
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the happiness of God's spiritual Israel therein, just as the prophecy
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of Joel concluded. These prophets, having opened the wound in their
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reproofs and threatenings, which show all wrong, in the promises of
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gospel-grace open the remedy, which alone will set all to rights.</P>
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