Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
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Amos
Book: Amos
Chapter: 1
Overview:
Judgments against the Syrians,
Philistines, Tyrians, Edomites,
and Ammonites.
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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 for their origin, or their employment.
Judgments are denounced against the neighbouring nations, the
oppressors of
God's people. The number of transgressions does
not here mean that exact number, but many: they had filled the
Measure of their sins, and were ripe for vengeance. The method
in dealing with these nations is, in part, the same, yet in each
there is something
Peculiar. In all ages this bitterness has
been shown against the
Lord's people. When the
Lord reckons with
his enemies, how tremendous are his judgments!