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Gill's Exposition
The Lord repented for this,.... He heard the prophet's prayer, and desisted from going on with the threatened destruction:
this also shall not be, saith the Lord God; the whole land shall not be…
As our Lord repeated the same words in the Garden, so Amos interceded with God with words, all but one, the same, and with the same plea, that, if God did not help, Israel was indeed helpless. Yet a…
We here see that God bears long, but that he will not bear always, with a provoking people, both these God here showed the prophet: Thus hath the Lord God showed me, Amo 7:1, Amo 7:4, Amo 7:7. He…
Again the prophet intercedes, in the same words as before, except that he does not pray that God would forgiveHis people, but that He would cease, desist, from His work of judgement. And, once more,…
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