This is Daniel Whyte III president of Gospel Light Society International with The Scripture & the Sense Podcast #444, where I read the Word of God and give the sense of it based on an authoritative commentary source such as the Bible Knowledge Commentary or Matthew Henry Commentary. This podcast is based upon Nehemiah 8:8 where it says Ezra and the Levites “read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.” The aim of this podcast is that through the simple reading of the Word of God and the giving of the sense of it, the church would be revived and the world would be awakened.
Today we are reading Amos 4:10.
10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
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That was Amos 4:10. Now here is the sense of it.
The Bible Knowledge Commentary reads:
Wars brought plagues and death to the nation. As populations were crowded into walled cities or assembled in camps, contagious diseases broke out and spread. The mention of Egypt has caused some to think that the “plagues” are similar to those that struck Egypt’s livestock at the time of the Exodus. But because of the military scenes mentioned in Amos 4:10, and because the word “plague” can denote an epidemic pestilence among humans, the most likely one is the bubonic plague which spreads from rats to people by fleas. The mention of Egypt is best interpreted as “like those that happen in Egypt,” a reference to the notorious human plagues which periodically swept that country. During the battles God killed (caused the enemy to kill) their strong young men, the elite of their fighting force. Their horses, the strength of their chariot corps, were captured. Because of the carnage, the stench of diseased and decaying corpses filled their camps. But still Israel did not return to the Lord.
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