Amos 2
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| Amos 2 Summary Listing more repeated transgressions and their consequences. Many elements of a healthy society must be diligently practiced or the masses will degenerate. If prophets fail to warn the people the social bonds of a free society will be so weakened until fear drives the foolish into the snare of tyranny. |
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| Again we see the "three transgressions" meaning they repeatedly despised the law of the LORD and did not keep the commandments. |
| V. 7 They sold the righteous for silver and the poor for shoes but how did Israel take care of the poor? Were they more than slothful? How did the way of the meek or humble[1] perverted[2] so that a man and his father where going into the same maid[3]? Did they practice pure Religion or a public religion? |
| V. 8 And what do they mean when they say "lay themselves down[2] upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned[4] in the house of their god. What was the purpose of their altars of clay and stone? |
| God had "brought you up from the land of Egypt" and told them to never go back that way again. We should not set up systems that are like the sin of Sodom nor neglect the systems of Pure Religion which strengthen society. |
| The people will degenerate and become weak as a people because they become accustomed to living at the expense of others. They set a net for their brothers[5] with having one One purse what should have been for their welfare becomes a snare. Other men who call themselves benefactors become judges of what is good and evil. |
| We no longer have the right to choose how to help the poor because we went the way of the Corban desiring the wages of unrighteousness in the welfare state of force, fear, and fealty. |
| People have lost their freedom because they desired to live by the covetous practices of force, fear, and fealty instead of the perfect law of liberty through a brotherly covenant. |
| The merchants of men have made the people human resources, merchandise, where you own nothing. |
| "Freedom is the Right to Choose, the Right to create for oneself the alternatives of Choice. Without the possibility of Choice, and the exercise of Choice, a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.” Archibald MacLeish |
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1 ¶ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
2 But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:
3 And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.
transgressions of Judah
4 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law[6] of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:
5 But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
6 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
7 That pant[7] after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name.
8 And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
9 Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
10 Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
11 And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD.
12 But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
13 Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
14 Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:
15 Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself.
16 And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.
Amos
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Preceded by: Joel
Followed by: Obadiah
- ↑ <עֲנָוִ֖ים> AyinNunVavYodMem 06035 עָנָו AyinNunVav ‘anav [aw-nawv’] or [by intermixture with 06041 AyinNunYod poor,afflicted]
עניו ‘anayv [aw-nawv’] from 06031 AyinNunHey to occupy; n m; [BDB-776b] [{See TWOT on 1652 @@ "1652a" }]
AV-meek 13, humble 5, poor 5, lowly 2, vr meek 1; 26
- 1) poor, humble, afflicted, meek
- 1a) poor, needy
- 1b) poor and weak
- 1c) poor, weak and afflicted
- 1d) humble, lowly, meek
- 1) poor, humble, afflicted, meek
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Amos uses YodTetHey variation instead of NunTetHey in verses 7 and 8 translated turn aside and laying down on a cloth with a pledge.
05186 נָטָה natah [naw-taw’] NunTetHey a primitive root; v; [BDB-639b] [{See TWOT on 1352 }] AV-stretch out 60, incline 28, turn 16, stretch forth 15, turn aside 13, bow 8, decline 8, pitched 8, bow down 5, turn away 5, spread 5, stretched out still 4, pervert 4, stretch 4, extend 3, wrest 3, outstretched 3, carried aside 2, misc 20; 215- 1) to stretch out, extend, spread out, pitch, turn, pervert, incline, bend, bow
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) to stretch out, extend, stretch, offer
- 1a3) to bend, turn, incline
- 1a3a) to turn aside, incline, decline, bend down
- 1a3b) to bend, bow
- 1a3c) to hold out, extend (fig.)
- 1b) (Niphal) to be stretched out
- 1c) (Hiphil)
- 1c1) to stretch out
- 1c2) to spread out
- 1c3) to turn, incline, influence, bend down, hold out, extend, thrust aside, thrust away
- 1a) (Qal)
- נ ן Nun Heir to the Throne, Aramaic fish in the Mem (fish moving in flowing waters) or in the Hebrew the Nun may mean the kingdom with a double Nun suggesting spiritual insight in two realms. [fish moving... Activity life] (Numeric value: 50)
- ט Tet Introversion - The Concealed power of good or paradoxically evil [to twist a snake... wheel To surround (gestation)] (Numeric value: 9)
- ה Hey Expression--Thought, Speech, Action. Manifest seeds of thought and life. [Emphasize, jubilation, window, fence] (Numeric value: 5)
- 1) to stretch out, extend, spread out, pitch, turn, pervert, incline, bend, bow
- ↑ <הַֽנַּעֲרָ֔ה> HeyNunAyinReishHey
05291 נַעֲרָה NunAyinReishHey na‘arah [nah-ar-aw’] from 05288 NunAyinReish a boy or servant or 05287 נָעַר NunAyinReish to shake; n f; [BDB-655a] [{See TWOT on 1389 @@ "1 389c" }] AV-damsel 34, maiden 16, maid 7, young 4, young woman 1; 62- 1) girl, damsel, female servant
- 1a) girl, damsel, little girl
- 1a1) of young woman, marriageable young woman, concubine, prostitute
- 1b) maid, female attendant, female servant
- 1a) girl, damsel, little girl
- 1) girl, damsel, female servant
- ↑ <עֲנוּשִׁים֙> AyinNunVavShinYodMem instead of merely AyinNunShin
06064 עָנַשׁ AyinNunShin ‘anash [aw-nash’] a primitive root; v; [BDB-778b] [{See TWOT on 1659 }] AV-punish 5, condemned 2, amerce 1, surely 1; 9- 1) to fine, amerce, punish, condemn, mulct
- 1a) (Qal) to fine, punish
- 1b) (Niphal) to be fined, be punished, be mulcted
- ע Ayin also U. Divine Providence "eye" or "fountain" of five states of kindness or severity. AlefYodNun or nothingness as opposed to AlefShin something [eye, watch] (Numeric value: 70)
- נ ן Nun Heir to the Throne, Aramaic fish in the Mem (fish moving in flowing waters) or in the Hebrew the Nun may mean the kingdom with a double Nun suggesting spiritual insight in two realms. [fish moving... Activity life] (Numeric value: 50)
- ש Shin Eternal Flame of Spiritual Revelation, bound to the coal of righteousness, the Divine Essence. [sun... teeth... consume destroy] (Numeric value: 300)
- 1) to fine, amerce, punish, condemn, mulct
- ↑ Micah 7:2 The good [man] is perished out of the earth: and [there is] none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
- ↑ We see this form of Torat translated law in the sense of a sacrifice in true faith rather than the force used by Pharaoh, Nimrod, and the Corban of the Pharisees and of course their modern counter parts FDR and LBJ accepted by the Modern Church excusing their covetous practices.
- ↑ הַשֹּׁאֲפִ֤ים HeyShinAlefPieYodMem
07602 שָׁאַף ShinAlefPie sha’aph [shaw-af’] a primitive root; v; [BDB-983b] [{See TWOT on 2305 }] [{See TWOT on 2306 }] AV-swallow up 6, snuff up 2, pant 2, earnestly desire 1, desire 1, devour 1, hast 1; 14- 1) to gasp, pant, pant after, long for, breathe heavily
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) to gasp, pant after, snuff up
- 1a2) to gasp or pant (with desire), pant after, be eager for
- 1a3) to thirst for one’s blood (from actions of animals) (fig)
- 1a) (Qal)
- 2) to crush, trample, trample upon
- 2a) (Qal) to trample upon, crush
- 1) to gasp, pant, pant after, long for, breathe heavily