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Amo 4:1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
kine of Bashan
Amo 4:2 The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
hath sworn by his holiness
Amo 4:4 Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years:
Bethel
Cf. 1Ki 12:25-33. Any altar at Bethel, after the establishment of Jehovah's worship at Jerusalem was of necessity divisive and schismatic (Deu 12:4-14). Cf. Jhn 4:21-24; Mat 18:20; Heb 13:10-14.
Amo 4:5 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
thanksgiving
See Scofield Leviticus 7:13, note.
leaven
Leaven. Mat 16:6, 11, 12. (Gen 19:3; Mat 13:33.)
free offerings
i.e. freewill.
Amo 4:6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
yet have ye not returned unto me
Amo 4:11 I have overthrown some of you, as God God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah
Amo 4:12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
prepare to meet thy God
See Scofield Eze 13:5; 22:30; Luk 14:31, 32.
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