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<div2 id="Amos.i" n="i" next="Amos.ii" prev="Amos" progress="81.22%" title="Introduction">
<h2 id="Amos.i-p0.1">Amos</h2>
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<div class="Center" id="Amos.i-p0.3">
<p id="Amos.i-p1" shownumber="no"><b>AN</b></p>
<h3 id="Amos.i-p1.1">EXPOSITION,</h3>
<h4 id="Amos.i-p1.2">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,</h4>
<h5 id="Amos.i-p1.3">OF THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET</h5>
<h2 id="Amos.i-p1.4">A M O S.</h2>
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<p class="indent" id="Amos.i-p2" shownumber="no"><span class="smallcaps" id="Amos.i-p2.1">Though</span> this
prophet appeared a little before Isaiah, yet he was not, as some
have mistaken, that Amos who was the father of Isaiah (<scripRef id="Amos.i-p2.2" osisRef="Bible:Isa.1.1" parsed="|Isa|1|1|0|0" passage="Isa 1:1">Isa. i. 1</scripRef>), for in the Hebrew their
names are very different; their families too were of a different
character, for Isaiah was a courtier, Amos a country-farmer. Amos
signifies a <i>burden,</i> whence the Jews have a tradition that he
was of a slow tongue and spoke with stammering lips; we may rather,
in allusion to his name, say that his speech was <i>weighty</i> and
his word the <i>burden of the Lord.</i> He was (as most think) of
Judah, yet prophesied chiefly against Israel, and at Bethel,
<scripRef id="Amos.i-p2.3" osisRef="Bible:Amos.7.13" parsed="|Amos|7|13|0|0" passage="Am 7:13"><i>ch.</i> vii. 13</scripRef>. Some
think his style savours of his extraction, and is more plain and
rustic than that of some other of the prophets; I do not see it so;
but it is plain that his matter agreed with that of his
contemporary Hosea, that <i>out of the mouth of these two witnesses
the word might be established.</i> It appears by his contest with
Amaziah the priest of Bethel that he met with opposition in his
work, but was a man of undaunted resolution in it, faithful and
bold in reproving sin and denouncing the judgments of God for it,
and pressing in his exhortations to repentance and reformation. He
begins with threatenings against the neighbouring nations that were
enemies to Israel, <scripRef id="Amos.i-p2.4" osisRef="Bible:Amos.1.1-Amos.2.32" parsed="|Amos|1|1|2|32" passage="Am 1:1-2:32"><i>ch.</i> i.
and ii.</scripRef> He then calls Israel to account, and judges them
for their idolatry, their unworthy walking under the favours God
had bestowed upon them, and their incorrigibleness under his
judgments, <scripRef id="Amos.i-p2.5" osisRef="Bible:Amos.3.1-Amos.4.13" parsed="|Amos|3|1|4|13" passage="Am 3:1-4:13"><i>ch.</i> iii. and
iv.</scripRef> He calls them to repentance ( <scripRef id="Amos.i-p2.6" osisRef="Bible:Amos.5.1-Amos.5.27" parsed="|Amos|5|1|5|27" passage="Am 5:1-27"><i>ch.</i> v.</scripRef>), rejecting their hypocritical
sacrifices unless they did repent. He foretels the desolations that
were coming upon them notwithstanding their security (<scripRef id="Amos.i-p2.7" osisRef="Bible:Amos.6.1-Amos.6.14" parsed="|Amos|6|1|6|14" passage="Am 6:1-14"><i>ch.</i> vi.</scripRef>), some particular
judgments (<scripRef id="Amos.i-p2.8" osisRef="Bible:Amos.7.1-Amos.7.17" parsed="|Amos|7|1|7|17" passage="Am 7:1-17"><i>ch.</i>
vii.</scripRef>), particularly on Amaziah; and, after other
reproofs and threatenings (<scripRef id="Amos.i-p2.9" osisRef="Bible:Amos.8.1-Amos.9.15" parsed="|Amos|8|1|9|15" passage="Am 8:1-9:15"><i>ch.</i> viii. and ix.</scripRef>), concludes with
a promise of the setting up of the Messiah's kingdom and the
happiness of God's spiritual Israel therein, just as the prophecy
of Joel concluded. These prophets, having opened the wound in their
reproofs and threatenings, which show all wrong, in the promises of
gospel-grace open the remedy, which alone will set all to
rights.</p>
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