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Amos 9:13

AMOS—NOTE ON Amos 9:13 When God restores the land, it will be amazingly productive and will not need to rest for a moment. As soon as the reaper has harvested one crop, the plowman comes right behind planting another one, and as soon as someone sows the seed, the grapes grow so rapidly that the treader of grapes comes to pick the ripe grapes and gather them for the winepress. This is a beautiful poetic image of a land like the garden of Eden—with fruitfulness that is free from the curse (Genesis 3:17; compare Amos 4:6).

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Amos 9:13. _THE PLOUGHMAN SHALL OVERTAKE THE REAPER_] All the seasons shall succeed in due and natural order: but the crops shall be so copious in the fields and in the vineyards, that a long t...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BEHOLD THE DAYS ARE COMING - The Day of the Lord is ever coming on: every act, good or bad, is drawing it on: everything which fills up the measure of iniquity or which “hastens the accomplishment of...

  • 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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Epilogue Amos closes, as the prophets are wont to close their discourses, with the promise of a brighter future. The dynasty of David, though for the time humbled, will be reinstated in its forme...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A hyperbolical description of the fertility of the soil. So rapid will be the growth of the crops, that the ploughman will hardly have finished breaking up the ground for seed, when the corn will be r...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The prosperity and happiness to be enjoyed by Israel upon its own land in the future....

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    THE LORD PROMISED ISRAEL A BLESSING -- AMOS 9:11-15 : God did promise that a remnant of Israel would return to their home land. When the remnant returned they would never be taken again bodily out of...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1196 THE MILLENNIAL STATE Amos 9:13. _Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains s...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME, &C.— In the note on Nehemiah 4:7 we have observed, that the Arabs frequently robbed the countryman of his seed-corn. They treat the fruit-trees after the same manner, and oblige...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    RESULTS OF JUDGMENT PROPHESIEDFRUITFULNESS AND PROSPERITY RESTORED TEXT: Amos 9:13-14 13 Behold the days come, saith Jehovah, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes h...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall mel...

  • 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

    SHALL OVERTAKE THE REAPER. — So rapidly will the harvest follow the ploughing. These closing verses foreshadow the glories of the restored kingdom of David (comp. Hosea 3:5), wherein we see the germ o...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הִנֵּ֨ה יָמִ֤ים בָּאִים֙ נְאֻם ־יְהוָ֔ה וְ נִ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    3. THE VOICES OF ANOTHER DAWN Amos 9:7 And now we are come to the part where, as it seems, voices of another day mingle with that of Amos, and silence his judgments in the chorus of their unbroken ho...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE DAY OF RESTORATION Amos 9:1-15 The guilty will certainly be punished. If they enter the sacred place of worship, even that will not shelter them, Amos 9:1. Flight and concealment will be in vain....

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall (l) overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall (m) drop sweet wine, and all the hills sh...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Shall overtake, &c. By this is meant the great abundance of spiritual blessings; which, as it were, by a constant succession, shall enrich the Church of Christ. (Challoner) --- Munster, and his imitat...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    "In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old: (12) That they may pos...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. "The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _THE CONTINUITY OF HARVEST_ ‘The plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed.’ Amos 9:13 God does not merely allow man to live. Besides life, He bestows blessi...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Here the Prophet describes the felicity which shall be under the reign of Christ: and we know that whenever the Prophets set forth promises of a happy and prosperous state to God’s people, they adopt...

  • 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

    BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME, SAITH THE LORD,.... Or "are coming" y; and which will commence upon the accomplishment of the above things, when the church of Christ is raised up and established, the Jews conv...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall mel...

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

    _Behold the days come_ Here we have another promise, literally to be understood of the abundant plenty which God would bestow on the returned captives, and mystically of the abundant grace given and b...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed, by spreading it broadcast. So fruitful would the land be that the rip...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE KINGDOM OF MESSIAH ESTABLISHED...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    SOWETH: _ Heb._ draweth forth SWEET WINE: Or, new wine...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    11-15 Christ died to gather together the children of God that were scattered abroad, here said to be those who were called by his name. The Lord saith this, who doeth this, who can do it, who has det...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Here is another promise made literally for assurance of abundant plenty to the returned captives, and mystically, of abundant grace poured forth in gospel days. But of the letter and history. BEHOLD,...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Amos 9:13 days H3117 coming H935 (H8802) says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 plowman H2790 (H8802) overtake...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE GRAND FINALE - OUT OF RUIN YHWH WILL PRODUCE THE FULFILMENT OF ALL HIS PROMISES (AMOS 9:11). These verse are not to be seen as something tacked on to the prophecy as a kind of postscript, but as t...

  • 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

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • 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

    Now in chapter 9 the final prophecy of Amos, he said, 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 the...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Amos 9:5; Ezekiel 36:35; Hosea 2:21; Isaiah 35:1; Isaiah 35:2;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF AMOS Amos 9:9 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We wish to suggest five things about the Prophet whom God used to deliver His message to Israel. 1. AMOS, THE MAN. Our opening verse reads: "Th...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Behold the days come — Here is another promise literally of abundant plenty to the returned captives, and mystically of abundant grace poured forth in gospel — days. The plowman — Who breaks up the gr...

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