Amos 4

Amos 4:1

YE Kine] O you Inhabitants of Samaria! rich and mighty (as ordinarily, the Inhabitants of the chiefe Cities of Kingdomes are) See Psal. 22. 12. Isaiah 28:1. Ezekiel 39:18 Say to]which doe perswade your Kings and Princes to all manner of excesse and dissolutenesse; and are teachers and advisers of the disorders of the Court; as Hos. 7 5.

Amos 4:2

With ooks] like fishes; as Jeremiah 16:16. Habakkuk 1:14-15. and you shall be no more like fat Kine, that abide in their pastures.

Amos 4:3

Goe out] being led into captivity, after the taking and disanteling of your Cities. See Ezekiel 12:5; Ezekiel 12:12 Before her] any way, there being neither gates, nor wals whole.

Amos 4:4

Gome] Ironicall termes: that is to say; I doe abandon you to continue in your Idolatries, that you may heap up the measure of your sinnes. See Matthew 23:32 Bethel, Gilgal] the chiefe Seates of the ten Tribes publicke Idolatry, 1 King. 12. 29. Hos. 4. 15. and 12. 12. Amos 5:5 Three yeares] the Italian, three dayes] in imitation of the three solemne feasts, appointed to be every yeare by the Law, Exodus 23:1-33. 4. at which certaine kind of tythes were spent in the sacred feasts, Deuteronomy 14:22.

Amos 4:5

Proclaime] making it knowne by publicke authority; that whosoever will offer any offerings, besides those which God hath commanded, shall come and offer them in such places, and at such times.

Amos 4:6

leannesse] that is to say; famine and dearth.

Amos 4:10

After the manner] the Italian, in the way] when you went into Egypt, to seeke ayd from thence, Hosea 7:11-12.

Amos 4:12

Thus will I] namely; as thy sinnes deserve: or as I have foretold thee, v 2, 3 Because] since I denounce war against thee, as against my Rebels and enemies, prepare thy selfe to doe the best thou canst to beare me off, and keep Me backe if thou canst: or to prevent, and pacifi Me by true repentance. See Ezek. 13. 5. and 22. 30.

Amos 4:13

Declareth] that knowes and judges the most secret thoughts of man; evertakes the wise in their cunning; accuses the consciences, and summoneth them to appeare before him Or according to others; that reveales his secret judgements to men, to call them to repentance Walkth] that is; exalted above all humane power. See Micah 1:3.