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Amos 5 — Sermon Preparation

Below is a research summary for Amos 5, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.

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Amos 5 in the Hebrew

Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.

Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Count Glosses
בֵּית־אֵל Bêyth-ʼÊl H1008 4 Beth-El
מִסְפֵּד miçpêd H4553 3 lamentation
דָּרַשׁ dârash H1875 4 tread, frequent
צָבָא tsâbâʼ H6635 4 mass, army
שָׂנֵא sânêʼ H8130 3 hate
גָּלָה gâlâh H1540 3 denude, exile
חָיָה châyâh H2421 3 live, revive

How preachers through history handled this text

28 public-domain excerpts on Amos 5, from the church fathers to the Puritans.

Calvin 21 Matthew Henry 4 Alexander MacLaren 1 Spurgeon 1 John Wesley 1

“Woe unto those that desire the day of the Lord's judgments, that wish for times of war and confusion; as some who long for changes, hoping to rise upon the ruins of their country! but this should be so great a desolation, that nobody could gain by it. The day of the Lord will be a dark, dismal, gloomy day to all impenitent sinners. When God makes a day dark, all the world cannot make it light. Those who are not reformed by the judgments of God, will be pursued by them; if they escape one, another stands ready to seize them. …”

— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Amos 5:18–30 (Public Domain)

Places in the text

Based on ancient-geography data

  • Damascus — Amos 5:27
  • Beersheba 1 — Amos 5:5
  • Bethel 1 — Amos 5:5
  • Gilgal 1 — Amos 5:5

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