Amos 1:11-13

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Amos 1:3-15

What the Lord says here may be explained by what he says Jer. 12:14; Thus said the Lord, against all my evil neighbours that touch the inheritance of my people Israel, Behold, I will pluck them out. Damascus was a near neighbour to Israel on the north, Tyre and Gaza on the west, Edom on the south, Ammon and (in the next chapter) Moab on the east; and all of them had been, one time, one way, or other, pricking briers and grieving thorns to Israel, evil neighbours to them; and, because God... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Amos 1:11

Thus saith the Lord for three transgressions of Edom ,.... Or the Edomites, the posterity of Esau, whose name was Edom, so called from the red pottage he sold his birthright for to his brother Jacob: and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof ; See Gill on Amos 1:3 . Among these three or four transgressions, not only what follows is included, but their idolatry; for that the Edomites had their idols is certain, though what they were cannot be said; see 2 Chronicles... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Amos 1:12

But I will send a fire upon Teman ,.... A principal city of Edom or Idumea, so called from Teman a grandson of Esau, Genesis 36:11 . Jerom F24 De locis Hebr. fol. 95. B. says there was in his time a village called Theman, five miles distant from the city Petra, and had a Roman garrison; and so says Eusebius F25 Onomast. ad vocem θαιμαν . ; who places it in Arabia Petraea; it is put for the whole country; it signifies the south. So the Targum renders it, "a fire in the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Amos 1:13

Thus saith the Lord, for three transgressions of the children of Ammon ,.... These are the descendants of Benammi, a son of Lots, by one of his daughters, Genesis 19:38 ; are distinguished from the Ammonites, 2 Chronicles 20:1 ; were near neighbours of the Jews, but great enemies to them, though akin: and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof ; See Gill on Amos 1:3 . Among these transgressions, for which God would punish these people, are to be reckoned, not only... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 1:11

For three transgressions of Edom - That the Edomites (notwithstanding what Calmet observes above of the brotherly covenant) were always implacable enemies of the Jews, is well known; but most probably that which the prophet has in view was the part they took in distressing the Jews when Jerusalem was besieged, and finally taken, by the Chaldeans. See Obadiah 1:11-14 ; Ezekiel 25:12 ; Ezekiel 35:5 ; Psalm 137:7 . read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 1:12

Teman - Bozrah - Principal cities of Idumea. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 1:13

The children of Ammon - The country of the Ammonites lay to the east of Jordan, in the neighborhood of Gilead. Rabbah was its capital. Because they have ripped up - This refers to some barbarous transaction well known in the time of this prophet, but of which we have no distinct mention in the sacred historians. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 1:11

Verse 11 The Prophet now passes to the Idumeans themselves. He had denounced ruin on the uncircumcised nations who delivered up the Jews into their hands: but they deserved a much heavier punishment, because their crime was much more atrocious. The Idumeans derived their origin, as it is well known, from their common father Isaac and bore the same symbol of God’s covenant, for they were circumcised. Since nearness of blood, and that sacred union, could not make them gentle to the Jews, we hence... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 1:12

Verse 12 He says in the last place, I will send fire on Teman, to consume the palaces of Bozrah By fire he ever means any kind of destruction. But he compares God’s vengeance to a burning fire. We know that when fire has once taken hold, not only on a house, but on a whole city, there is no remedy. So now the Prophet says, that God’s vengeance would be dreadful, that it would consume whatever hatred there was among them:I will then send fire on Teman; which, as it is well known, was the first... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 1:13

Verse 13 He now prophesies against the Ammonites, who also derived their origin from the same common stock; for they were the posterity of Lot, as it is well known; and Lot was counted as the son of Abraham, as Abraham, having taken him with him from his country brought him up, no doubt, as his own son. Then Abraham was the common father of the Jews and of the Ammonites. Now, when the children of Ammon, without any regard to relationship, joined their forces to those of enemies, and conspired... read more

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