Amos 6:14

“But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the Lord, the God of hosts, etc.] The Assyrian nation, under its king, Shalmaneser; who invaded Israel, came up to Samaria, and after a three years’ siege took it, and carried Israel captive into foreign lands, (<121705>2 Kings 17:5,6); and they shall afflict you; by battles, sieges, forages, plunders, and burning of cities and towns, and putting the inhabitants to the sword: from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of the wilderness; from Hamath the less, said by Josephusf184 and Jeromf185 to be called Epiphania, in their times, from Antiochus Epiphanes; it was at the entrance on the land of Israel, and at the…”

“from the entering in of Hamath--the point of entrance for an invading army (as Assyria) into Israel from the north; specified here, as Hamath had been just before subjugated by Jeroboam II (Amo 6:2). Do not glory in your recently acquired city, for it shall be the starting-point for the foe to afflict you. How sad the contrast to the feast of Solomon attended by a congregation from this same Hamath, the most northern boundary of Israel, to the Nile, the river of Egypt, the most southern boundary! unto the river of the wilderness--that is, to Kedron, which empties itself into the north bay of the Dead Sea below Jericho (Ch2 28:15), the southern boundary of the ten tribes (Kg2 14:25, "from the…”

“But - (For,) - it was a non-thing, a nonexistent thing, a phantom, whereat they rejoiced; “for behold I raise up a nation.” God is said to “raise up,” when, by His Providence or His grace, He calls forth those who had not been called before, for the office for which He designs them. Thus, He raised up judges Judges 2:16-18, delivers Judges 3:9-15, prophets , Nazarites Amos 2:11, priests 1 Samuel 2:35, kings 2 Samuel 7:8, calling each separately to perform what He gave them in charge. So He is said to “raise up” even the evil ministers of His good Will, whom, in the course of His Providence, He allows to raise themselves up aloft to that eminence, so often as, in fulfilling their own bad…”

“Hemath - A city of Syria, bordering on Israel, north - east. The wilderness - Which is the south - west parts of Canaan. So all your country shall be destroyed. Next: Amos Chapter 7”

“6:14 Lebo-hamath marked the northern border of Solomon’s influence (1 Kgs 8:65) and of the land recovered by Jeroboam II. The Dead Sea (called the sea of the Arabah; see footnote on 2 Kgs 14:25) marked the southern border of Jeroboam’s recovered territory. The irony was clear: All of this recovered land would be oppressed by the enemy nation (Assyria).”

“I will: Kg2 15:29, Kg2 17:6; Isa 7:20, Isa 8:4-8, Isa 10:5, Isa 10:6; Jer 5:15-17; Hos 10:5 from: Num 34:8; Kg1 8:65; Eze 47:15-17 river: or, valley Next: Amos Chapter 7”