Amos 3:7 BSB — MannaFest

Amos 3:7

Surely the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Surely the Lord Jehovah will do nothing, except he reveal his secret unto his servants the prophets.

KJV

Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.

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Commentary

4 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Amos (420)

(Verse 3 onwards) Will two walk together unless they have agreed? Does a lion roar in the forest unless it has prey? Does a lion's cub give a cry from its den without capturing something? Does a bird fall into a trap on the ground without a trapper? Does a trap spring up from the ground before catching something? If a trumpet is blown in a city, will not the people be afraid? If there is calamity in a city, has not the Lord caused it?

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The secret of God is with them; it is in some sense with all the righteous ( Prov. iii. 32 ), with all that fear God ( Ps. xxv. 14 ), but in a peculiar manner with the prophets, to whom the Spirit of prophecy is a Spirit of revelation.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Surely the Lord God will do - For the Lord God “doeth” Nothing, but He revealeth His secret unto His servants the prophets - So our Lord saith, “And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe” (Joh 14:29; compare Joh 13:19). While it is yet a “secret” counsel within Himself, He admitteth to it His servants the prophets.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

17:25, 26). unto his servants--who being servants cannot but obey their Lord in setting forth His purpose (namely, that of judgment against Israel) (Jer 20:9; Therefore the fault which the ungodly find with them is groundless (1Ki 18:17). It aggravates Israel's sin, that God is not about to inflict judgment, without having fully warned the people, if haply they might repent.

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּ֣י	ki	for	H3588 →
לֹ֧א	lo'	not	H3808 →
יַעֲשֶׂ֛ה	ya.'a.Seh	he does	H6213 →
אֲדֹנָ֥י	'a.do.Nai	[the] Lord	H136 →
יְהוִ֖ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3069 →
דָּבָ֑ר	da.Var	anything	H1697 →
כִּ֚י	ki	that	H3588 →
אִם־	'im-	except	H518 →
גָּלָ֣ה	ga.Lah	he has revealed	H1540 →
סוֹד֔וֹ	so.Do	secret counsel his	H5475 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
עֲבָדָ֖יו	'a.va.Dav	servants his	H5650 →
הַנְּבִיאִֽים׃	ha.ne.vi.'Im	the prophets	H5030 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
John 15:15
No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have…
leads to
- Psalms 25:14
  The LORD confides in those who fear Him, and reveals His covenant to them.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Corinthians 2:9–12
  Rather, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him.”
- Matthew 13:11
  He replied, “The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.
- James 2:23
  And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called a friend of God.
Through
Psalms 25:14
The LORD confides in those who fear Him, and reveals His covenant to them.
leads to
- John 15:15
  No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Revelation 1:1
This is the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants what must soon come to pass. He made it known by sending His angel to His servant John,
leads to
- Revelation 22:16
  “I, Jesus, have sent My angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the bright Morning Star.”
- Revelation 22:6
  Then the angel said to me, “These words are faithful and true. The Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent His angel to show His servants what must soon take…
- Galatians 1:12
  I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ.

About Amos

The Prophet Amos — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Amos

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Amos