11For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.
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In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed. …
Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.
And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-17)One would have expected, 1. That what we met with in the former part of the chapter would awaken the people to repentance, when they saw that they were reprieved in order that they might have space to repent and that they could not obtain a pardon unless the did repent. 2. That it would endear the prophet Amos to them, who had not only shown his good-will to them in praying against the judgments t…
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