Passage Research
Amos 5 — Sermon Preparation
Amos sings a funeral dirge over fallen Israel and urges that justice roll down like waters — for the day of the LORD will be darkness, not light. 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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- verses
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- Hebrew words / lemmas
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- classic sermon excerpts
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- preachers & commentators
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.
“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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