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Amos 3
The Morning Walk ('Mr and Mrs William Hallett') - (1785)
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788)
Romanticism Style
National Gallery, London, England, United Kingdom
Image Source: Web Gallery of Art
Today's painting depicts a pleasant morning walk shared by two people who love one another, a contrast to the relationship between Israel and God since they no longer walked together.
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Explanation: In Amos 3 the LORD announces his punishments on his people. To emphasize that their punishments will come from the LORD, not from mere secondary causes, the LORD asks a series of questions about causes and their inevitable effects. The first of these questions is one of the most well known quotes from Amos: "Can two walk together, except they be agreed?" (verse 3). The main point of the series of questions is found in the latter part of verse 6: "shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD has not done it?" The point is that evil (judgment) is the effect, and the LORD is the cause. To illustrate what they can expect, he sets forth Ashdod and Egypt as examples of the kind of destruction that is coming upon his people. Very little will be left of God's people in either the Northern Kingdom or the Southern Kingdom - just bits and pieces. In verse 14, where the LORD says he will visit the sin of Israel upon him and his altars, the prophecy seems to have been fulfilled when Josiah (640-609 B.C.) from the Southern Kingdom burned the bones of Israel's priests of Baal upon their altars (2 Kings 23:15-16). This was in accord with a prophecy 300 years before by an unnamed prophet who rebuked Jeroboam I (931-910 B.C.) for his idolatry, and predicted this act, and called Josiah by name (1 Kings 13:2).
Sermons: Eric Alexander. William Still.
THEMATICALLY AND CHRONOLOGICALLY RELATED SCRIPTURES: JUDAH: Athaliah (841-835 BC) -- 2 Kings 11; 2 Chronicles 22-23; Joash (Jehoash) (835-796 BC) -- 2 Kings 12; 2 Chronicles 24. ISRAEL: Jehu (841-814 BC) -- 2 Kings 9-10; 2 Chronicles 22:8-10; Hosea 1:4-5].
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Amos Structural Outline
1. Prophecy Against Israel (Amos 1:1-2) - 760 B.C., Israel
2. Prophecies Against the Nations Bordering Israel [Damascus, Gaza, Tyre, Edom, Ammon, Moab] - (1:3 - 2:3) - 760 B.C., Israel
3. Prophecies, Negative and Positive, About Judah & Israel (2:4 - 9:15) - 760 B.C., Israel
Amos 2
1. Prophecy Against Israel (Amos 1:1-2) - 760 B.C., Israel
2. Prophecies Against the Nations Bordering Israel [Damascus, Gaza, Tyre, Edom, Ammon, Moab] - (Continued) - (1:3 - 2:3) - 760 B.C., Israel
3. Prophecies, Negative and Positive, About Judah & Israel (2:4 - 9:15) - 760 B.C., Israel
A. About Judah (2:4-5)
B. About Israel - (Continued) - (2:6 - 5:27)
1 Hear [this] this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of [sons of] Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,
2 You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you [I will visit on you] for [this] all your iniquities.
3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
4 Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no [nothing of] prey? will a young lion cry [give sound] out of his den, if he have taken nothing?
5 Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no [nothing of a] gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all [taking not he is taking]?
6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing [not a thing/word], but [surely] he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.
8 The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?
9 Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.
10 For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
11 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled.
12 Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of [sons of] Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.
13 Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,
14 That [Surely] in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.
15 And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD.
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