This is Daniel Whyte III president of Gospel Light Society International with The Scripture & the Sense Podcast #450, 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 5:3.
3 For thus saith the Lord God; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.
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That was Amos 5:3. Now here is the sense of it.
The Bible Knowledge Commentary reads:
Her armies had been decimated. The city or town that had detached a military unit of a thousand or a hundred saw only 10 percent return from war. An army could sustain a 50 percent loss and still fight. But if 90 percent were slain, that nation had received its death sentence. Amos lamented an Israel that would cease to exist.
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