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<p class="tab-1">In this chapter we have, I. A sinful people studying to put a slight upon God’s threatenings and to make them appear trivial, confiding in their privileges and pre-eminences above other nations (<a class="bibleref" title="Amos.6.2,Amos.6.3" href="/passage/?search=Amos.6.2,Amos.6.3"><span class="bibleref" title="Amos.6.2">Amos 6:2</span>, <span class="bibleref" title="Amos.6.3">3</span></a>), and their power (<a class="bibleref" title="Amos.6.13" href="/passage/?search=Amos.6.13">Amos 6:13</a>), and wholly addicted to their pleasures, <a class="bibleref" title="Amos.6.4-Amos.6.6" href="/passage/?search=Amos.6.4-Amos.6.6">Amos 6:4-6</a>. II. A serious prophet studying to put a weight upon God’s threatenings and to make them appear terrible, by setting forth the severity of those judgments that were coming upon these sensualists (<a class="bibleref" title="Amos.6.7" href="/passage/?search=Amos.6.7">Amos 6:7</a>), God’s abhorring them, and abandoning them and theirs to death (<a class="bibleref" title="Amos.6.8-Amos.6.11" href="/passage/?search=Amos.6.8-Amos.6.11">Amos 6:8-11</a>), and bringing utter desolation upon them, since they would not be wrought upon by the methods he had taken for their conviction, <a class="bibleref" title="Amos.6.12-Amos.6.14" href="/passage/?search=Amos.6.12-Amos.6.14">Amos 6:12-14</a>.</p>
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