Explanation: In Amos 3 the LORD announces his punishments on his people. To emphasize that their punishments will come from the LORD, not from mere secondary causes, the LORD asks a series of questions about causes and their inevitable effects. The first of these questions is one of the most well known quotes from Amos: "Can two walk together, except they be agreed?" (verse 3). The main point of the series of questions is found in the latter part of verse 6: "shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD has not done it?" The point is that evil (judgment) is the effect, and the LORD is the cause. To illustrate what they can expect, he sets forth Ashdod and Egypt as examples of the kind of destruction that is coming upon his people. Very little will be left of God's people in either the Northern Kingdom or the Southern Kingdom - just bits and pieces. In verse 14, where the LORD says he will visit the sin of Israel upon him and his altars, the prophecy seems to have been fulfilled when Josiah (640-609 B.C.) from the Southern Kingdom burned the bones of Israel's priests of Baal upon their altars (2 Kings 23:15-16). This was in accord with a prophecy 300 years before by an unnamed prophet who rebuked Jeroboam I (931-910 B.C.) for his idolatry, and predicted this act, and called Josiah by name (1 Kings 13:2).

     Sermons: Eric Alexander. William Still.

THEMATICALLY AND CHRONOLOGICALLY RELATED SCRIPTURES: JUDAH: Athaliah (841-835 BC) -- 2 Kings 11; 2 Chronicles 22-23; Joash (Jehoash) (835-796 BC) -- 2 Kings 12; 2 Chronicles 24. ISRAEL: Jehu (841-814 BC) -- 2 Kings 9-10; 2 Chronicles 22:8-10; Hosea 1:4-5].

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