Treasury of Scripture
Thus saith. Amos, says Abp. Newcome, first prophesies against the Syrians, Philistines, Tyrians, Edomites, Ammonites, and Moabites, who dwelt in the neighbourhood of the twelve tribes, and had occasionally become their enemies and persecutors. Having thus taught his countrymen that the providence of God extended to other nations, he briefly mentions the idolatrous practices and consequent destruction of Judah, and then passes on to his proper subject, which was to exhort and reprove the kingdom of Israel, and to denounce against it the Divine judgments.
For three.
Amos 6:3-7 You that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near...
2 Kings 17:7-18 For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt...
2 Kings 18:12 Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant...
Ezekiel 23:5-9 And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors...
Hosea 4:1,2,11-14 Hear the word of the LORD, you children of Israel: for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land...
Hosea 7:7-10 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calls to me...
Hosea 8:4-6 They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not...
Hosea 13:2,3 And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding...
Micah 6:10-16 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable...
because.
Amos 5:11,12 For as much therefore as your treading is on the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone...
Amos 8:4-6 Hear this, O you that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail...
Isaiah 5:22,23 Woe to them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink...
Isaiah 29:21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproves in the gate...
Joel 3:3,6 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink...
Micah 3:2,3 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones...
