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God Speaks from His True Home
Commentators stress the importance of God roaring "from Zion" and "Jerusalem." This was a direct challenge to the northern kingdom of Israel, clarifying that God's true presence and authority were not in their idolatrous worship centers at Dan and Bethel. The judgment originates from the very place of true worship that Israel had abandoned.
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Amos
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Albert Barnes
On Amos 1:2
18th Century
Theologian
The Lord will roar - Amos connects his prophecy to the end of Joel’s, in order to attest immediately in its opening the unity of their missi…
Charles Ellicott
On Amos 1:2
19th Century
Bishop
Roar.— The prolonged thunder-peal, or lion’s roar, of the Divine voice, reverberates from the theocratic metropolis of Zion, to th…
John Calvin
On Amos 1:2
16th Century
Theologian
He employs here the same words that we explained yesterday in the lecture on Joel, but for another purpose. By saying, Jehovah from Zion shall …
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John Gill
On Amos 1:2
17th Century
Pastor
And he said That is, the Prophet Amos, before described; he, being under divine inspiration, said as follows:
Matthew Henry
On Amos 1:1–8
17th Century
Minister
GOD employed a shepherd, a herdsman, to reprove and warn the people. Those to whom God gives abilities for His services, ought not to be despised f…