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Amos 9:5-6

Such a terrible announcement of judgement might seem to need confirmation: Amos therefore pauses, to describe, in two majestic verses, the power of the God who has been provoked, and who thus threatens His vengeance: all great movements in nature are due to Him (Amos 9:5); He sits on high and can control the elements (Amos 9:6).

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Amos 9:5. _THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS_ IS _HE_] So powerful is he that a touch of his hand shall _melt_ or dissolve _the land_, and cause all its _inhabitants to mourn_. Here is still a reference to...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    And who is He who should do this? God, at whose command are all creatures. This is the hope of His servants; from where Hezekiah begins his prayer, “Lord of hosts, God of Israel” Isaiah 37:16. This is...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 9 The Passing of a Kingdom and the Coming of the Kingdom _ 1. The fifth vision: The passing of a kingdom (Amos 9:1) _ 2. The coming of the kingdom (Amos 9:11) Amos 9:1. In his fifth vision...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE RESTORATION OF GOD'S PEOPLE. This section is probably a post-exilic appendix to the book. The point of view has changed, the fate of Israel being quite different from that contemplated in the rest...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE VISION OF AN AVENGING GOD. The last vision impresses upon Amos the anger and omnipotence of the supreme ruler and judge. Yahweh is seen (Amos 9:1) stationed by or over the altar (_i.e._ of Bethel)...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE LORD GOD, Hebrew. _Adonai Jehovah_. App-4. See note on Amos 1:8. dwell. The 1611 edition of the Authorized Version reads dwelleth". flood. See notes on Amos 8:8....

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    THE LORD GOD IS ALL-POWERFUL -- AMOS 9:5-6 : Amos gave an amazing picture of God's judgment. He said, "When the LORD God All-Powerful touches the earth, it melts, and its people mourn. God makes the e...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND IT SHALL RISE UP, &C.— See on chap. Amos 8:8....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    DESCRIPTION OF JUDGMENTS PROPHESIEDTHOROUGH AND INESCAPABLE TEXT: Amos 9:1-6 1 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar: and he said, Smite the capitals, that the thresholds may shake; and break th...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of E...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE CONCLUDING VISION AND A DISCOURSE. COMFORTABLE WORDS 1. The vision. 2-10. The discourse, declaring that none shall evade God's judgments (Amos 9:2); that Israel stands in no peculiar relationship...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 9 GOD’S JUDGEMENT AGAINST ISRAEL V1 I saw the *Lord standing by the *altar. He said: ‘Hit the top of the columns....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    Accumulate in grand imagery the majesty, power, and irresistible resources of the Lord, who has at length become their enemy. The very world itself melts, as Sinai did, at His touch. The word “is” sh...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ אדֹנָ֨י יְהוִ֜ה הַ צְּבָאֹ֗ות הַ נֹּוגֵ֤עַ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    2. NEMESIS Amos 9:1 There follows a Vision in Bethel, the opening of which, "I saw the Lord," immediately recalls the great inauguration of Isaiah. He also "saw the Lord"; but how different the Attit...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The final vision was of judgment executed. In this there was no symbol, no sign. We hear the manifesto of Jehovah Himself. It is one of the most awe-inspiring visions of the whole Bible. The message p...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _A river. Septuagint, "the river of Egypt," chap. viii. 8., and v. 24. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    "I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet repeats here nearly the same words with those we explained yesterday: he used then the similitude of a flood, which he again mentions here. But as the first clause is capable of various ex...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 9 presents Jehovah Himself as directing the judgment in such a manner that Israel should in no wise escape it, God treating them as He would the nations that were strangers to Him, as the Phil...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS [IS] HE THAT TOUCHETH THE LAND, AND IT SHALL MELT,.... Which is another reason why it is impossible to escape the hands of a sin revenging God, because he is omnipotent as we...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the Lord GOD of hosts [is] he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as [by] the flood o...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And_ Or, _for, the Lord toucheth the land, and it shall melt _ The least token of God's displeasure is sufficient to put the whole frame of nature out of order. See the margin. And when God's hand is...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE WICKED KINGDOM OVERTHROWN...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And the Lord God of hosts is He that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, Cf Psalms 46:7; Psalms 75:4, AND ALL THAT DWELL THEREIN SHALL MOURN, for the melting is done by the judgments of the Lord, wh...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-10 The prophet, in vision, saw the Lord standing upon the idolatrous altar at Bethel. Wherever sinners flee from God's justice, it will overtake them. Those whom God brings to heaven by his grace,...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    The prophet having foretold such sad, universal desolations, miseries beyond what this secure people could think possible, and such as the atheists among them censured, and derided as impossibilities,...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Amos 9:5 Lord H136 GOD H3069 hosts H6635 touches H5060 (H8802) earth H776 melts H4127 (H8799) dwell...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH WILL INEXORABLY DEAL IN JUDGMENT WITH HIS PEOPLE, WHO HAVE FORGOTTEN WHO AND WHAT HE REALLY IS, AND THERE WILL THEREFORE BE NO HIDING PLACE FOR THEM (AMOS 9:1). There is something genuinely aweso...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    A REMINDER OF WHO IT IS WHO WILL DO THIS (AMOS 9:5). The Lord YHWH can do all this because he is Lord of earthquakes, and is the One Who has built His mansions in the heavens, and His cellars on the...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Final prophecy of dispersion of Israel and their ultimate restoration and blessing in the kingdom age. CHARACTERS: God, Amos. CONCLUSION: The sword of war is the sword of divine vengeance,...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Amos 9:1. _I saw the Lord standing upon the altar_ in Jerusalem, as in Isaiah 6:1, and Ezekiel 9:3. Here the prophet heard the awful words, that God would hunt the idolaters from all their hiding plac...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The Lord God is He that toucheth the land, and it shall melt._ GOD AS THE ADMINISTRATOR OF JUSTICE I. He does it with the greatest ease. The Almighty has no difficulty. Never can there be any misca...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 9:1 This final vision has two parts, one negative (vv. Amos 9:1) and the other positive (vv. Amos 9:11). God considers wo

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] AMOS 9:5.] God is _omnipotent_, able judgment. TOUCHETH] Dissolves the stability of the earth (Psalms 46:7; Psalms 75:4). A

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION AMOS 9:1 § 6_. The fifth vision displays the Lord standing by the altar and _commanding the destruction of the temple (Amos 9:1). No one shall escape this judgment, flee whither he will (A...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Amos 8:8; Habakkuk 3:10; Hosea 4:3; Isaiah 64:1; Isaiah 8:7;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Toucheth — He needs not take great pains therein, a touch of his finger will do this. Shall melt — As snow before the sun....

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