This is what the LORD says: "For three transgressions of Edom, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and stifled all compassion; his anger raged continually, and his fury flamed incessantly. Sermons
I. KINDRED INVOLVES SACRED OBLIGATIONS TO MUTUAL REGARD AND SUCCOUR. Moses had addressed Edom as a brother, and Israel had forborne to attack Edom, even when tempted to do so by most unneighbourly, unbrotherly conduct. The proper response to such conduct would have been something very different from what is here recorded. Amongst all nations, and in every stage of society, common descent from one ancestor is accepted as a bond of brotherhood and a pledge of friendliness. II. THERE ARE INSTANCES IN WHICH THESE OBLIGATIONS ARE UTTERLY DISREGARDED. Such was the case with the Edomites. We trace in their conduct towards their kinsmen of Israel several stages of iniquity. 1. Aggression. Edom "pursued his brother with the sword." 2. Pitiless anger. Edom "corrupted his compassions." 3. Implacability. Edom "kept his wrath forever." Such treatment would have been unjustifiable from any nation towards another; but the relation and circumstances made it flagrantly and atrociously wicked in the instance under consideration. III. VIOLATION OF OBLIGATIONS SO SACRED INCURS DIVINE DISPLEASURE AND MERITED PUNISHMENT. A nation sins and a nation suffers. Doubtless innocent persons endure in many cases the sufferings which the guilty deserve. This is a mystery of Divine providence. Yet it is evident that cities, tribes, nations, may be, and often have been, chastised, as a proof of the Divine rule, as a correction for human disobedience, and as an inducement to repentance. - T.
For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof. 1. A threatening. Here a certain number is put for an uncertain. It may be treated jointly. Three and foyer make seven. Thus may be indicated the multitude and magnitude of the wickedness, and the greatness and heaviness of the punishment. It may be treated severally, and in this sense; going on still, even to a fourth time, in provoking Me, and adding obstinacy and impenitency to their side, I will bear them no longer.2. The equity. These Idumaeans were stubbornly wicked, and heaped up sin upon sin. 3. Execution of judgment. "I win send a fire." Fire is put in Scripture for a most grievous plague, by sword, or famine, or pestilence. Now for the application. — Edom is a special type of the kingdom of Anti-Christ. Antichristian Esau is Edom. The similitude between them we will consider — 1. In their persons; 2. in their sins; and 3. in their judgments. (T. Taylor, D. D.) People Amos, Aram, Ben, Benhadad, Ben-hadad, Hadad, Hazael, Jehoash, Jeroboam, Joash, Teman, UzziahPlaces Ashdod, Ashkelon, Beth-eden, Bozrah, Carmel, Damascus, Edom, Ekron, Gaza, Gilead, Jerusalem, Kir, Rabbah, Syria, Tekoa, Teman, Tyre, Valley of Aven, ZionTopics Anger, Angry, Brother, Burning, Cast, Changed, Compassion, Continually, Crimes, Destroyed, Edom, Fate, Flamed, Forever, Fury, Kept, Maintained, Mercies, Perpetually, Pity, Punishment, Pursue, Pursued, Pursuing, Raged, Reverse, Revoke, Says, Sentence, Sins, Stifled, Stifling, Sword, Tear, Thereof, Thus, Tore, Transgressions, Turn, Unchecked, Wrath, Yea, YesOutline 1. The time when Amos prophesied.3. He shows God's judgment upon Syria, 6. upon the Philistines, 9. upon Tyrus, 11. upon Edom, 13. upon Ammon. Dictionary of Bible Themes Amos 1:11 1656 numbers, combinations Library The Prophet Joel. PRELIMINARY REMARKS. The position which has been assigned to Joel in the collection of the Minor Prophets, furnishes an external argument for the determination of the time at which Joel wrote. There cannot be any doubt that the Collectors were guided by a consideration of the chronology. The circumstance, that they placed the prophecies of Joel just between the two prophets who, according to the inscriptions and contents of their prophecies, belonged to the time of Jeroboam and Uzziah, is … Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg—Christology of the Old Testament The River of Egypt, Rhinocorura. The Lake of Sirbon. Whether, in Prophetic Revelation, New Species of Things are Impressed on the Prophet's Mind, or Merely a New Light? Whether a Natural Disposition is Requisite for Prophecy? How the Rude in Sacred Learning, and those who are Learned but not Humble, are to be Admonished. The Twelve Minor Prophets. Formation and History of the Hebrew Canon. A Discourse of Mercifulness Links Amos 1:11 NIVAmos 1:11 NLT Amos 1:11 ESV Amos 1:11 NASB Amos 1:11 KJV Amos 1:11 Bible Apps Amos 1:11 Parallel Amos 1:11 Biblia Paralela Amos 1:11 Chinese Bible Amos 1:11 French Bible Amos 1:11 German Bible Amos 1:11 Commentaries Bible Hub |
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