CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos sees God STANDING, fixed in purpose, by the altar. POSTS] Thresholds (Isaiah 6:4). CUT] Human victims demanded; wounded with fragments of broken columns (cf. Psalms 68:21; Habakkuk 3:13). LAST] Those left cannot escape. AMOS 9:2.] The Lord everywhere will pursue and destroy the... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES.] AMOS 9:5.] God is _omnipotent_, able judgment. TOUCHETH] Dissolves the stability of the earth (Psalms 46:7; Psalms 75:4). AMOS 9:6. STORIES] Lit. _steps_, perhaps in allusion to Solomon’s throne (1 Kings 10:18). TROOP] Lit. _a band_ dividing the waters above from those beneath the... [ Continue Reading ]
_HOMILETICS_ CRITICAL NOTES.] AMOS 9:7. AS CHILDREN] No longer highly favoured Israelites, but acting like Cushites. Their election of no avail. They had become like the heathen, accursed as Ham, black as Ethiopians, whose skin symbolized spiritual darkness (Jeremiah 13:23). BROUGHT UP] Israel’s d... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES.] AMOS 9:9.] The figure explains how. FOR] God will disperse Israel, shake them with other nations. Wheat and chaff are mixed together. The wicked, chaff and dust, fall through the sieve and perish; the GRAIN (solid grain), the godly, will be preserved, every one shall be saved (Matt... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES.] AMOS 9:11. THE BOOTH] The fallen shepherd, _hut_ (not the palace), indicating the feeble condition of the family and nation. WALL UP] the rents; the two divided nations should become one. RAISE UP] Enlarge and finish the building as of old (2 Samuel 7:11). AMOS 9:12. THEY] God’s p... [ Continue Reading ]