Matthew Poole and continuators on Amos 4:6
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Amos4:6
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.
The Lord who gave many Blessings to win you to Repentance, hath also tryed what might be done by Judgments.
This is a description of Famine by one effect of it, where meat fails the teeth are not fouled, as where it is eaten.
It was a general famine, and probably 'twas that 2 Kings 8.1. long Famine.
If there were some bread, yet 'twas very scarce every where, this passage explains the former.
Yet this starving people repented not of their Idolatries, nor cast off their Idols; left not their sins of oppression and cruelty, &c. Vid. Ioel 2.12, 13. what you did like returning was partial▪ and hypocritical, and not lasting.
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