Amos

by Mays, James Luther

• ISBN13: 9780664208639
• ISBN10: 0664208630
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1969-06-01
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Pr

Summary

This critically acclaimed series provides fresh and authoritative treatments of important aspects of Old Testament study through commentaries and general surveys. The contributors are scholars of international standing.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
The time	p. 1
The prophet	p. 3
The sayings	p. 4
The message	p. 6
The book	p. 12
Abbreviations	p. 15
Bibliography	p. 16
Commentary	p. 18
The title: 1.1	p. 18
The voice of Yahweh: 1.2	p. 20
Oracles against the nations: 1.3-2.16	p. 22
Against Damascus: 1.3-5	p. 28
Against the Philistines: 1.6-8	p. 32
Against Tyre: 1.9-10	p. 33
Against Edom: 1.11-12	p. 35
Against Ammon: 1.13-15	p. 36
Against Moab: 2.1-3	p. 38
Against Judah: 2.4-5	p. 40
Against Israel: 2.6-16	p. 42
Election to judgment: 3.1-2	p. 54
The word is the work of Yahweh: 3.3-8	p. 58
Oppression within brings plundering from without: 3.9-11	p. 62
Your deliverance will prove the death of you: 3.12	p. 66
The fall of the house of Jacob: 3.13-15	p. 68
The ladies of Samaria: 4.1-3	p. 71
Worship that is rebellion: 4.4-5	p. 73
The broken quest: 4.6-13 Note: The hymnic sections in Amos	p. 76
Funeral rites for the nation: 5.1-3	p. 84
The Holy One, not the holy place: 5.4-6	p. 86
Man's injustice brings God's justice: 5.7, 10-11	p. 90
Lord of heaven and history: 5.8-9	p. 95
Your future is a funeral: 5.12-13, 16-17	p. 96
Not every one who says 'Lord, Lord': 5.14-15	p. 99
The day of Yahweh: 5.18-20	p. 102
The hated worship: 5.21-24	p. 105
Sacrifice will not save you: 5.25-27	p. 110
The affluent society: 6.1-7	p. 113
The wrath of God: 6.8-11	p. 117
The absurd happens in Israel: 6.12	p. 120
They who live by the sword: 6.13-14	p. 121
Vision and reality: 7.1-8.3	p. 123
The locust swarm: 7.1-3	p. 127
The divine fire: 7.4-6	p. 130
The plumb line: 7.7-9	p. 131
Prophet, priest and king: 7.10-17	p. 133
The basket of late fruit: 8.1-3	p. 140
Never on Sunday: 8.4-8	p. 142
Gloom and grief: 8.9-10	p. 146
Not by bread alone: 8.11-14	p. 147
No hiding place: 9.1-6	p. 151
The freedom of Yahweh: 9.7-8	p. 156
God's sieve is his sword: 9.9-10	p. 160
The resurrection of the kingdom: 9.11-12	p. 163
Prosperity and peace: 9.13-15	p. 165
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