Amos 9:6

It is he that buildeth, &c.— See the note on Jeremiah 22:13 where it is remarked, from the Observations, that the chief rooms of the houses in the East are those above. Perhaps our prophet refers to this circumstance, when he speaks of the heavens as God's stories or chambers; the most noble and splendid apartments of the palace of God, and where his presence is chiefly manifested; and the bundle or collection (the troop) of its offices, its numerous little mean apartments, the divisions of this earth. Capellus observes, that the word אגדה aguddah, rendered troop, signifies those store-houses and cellars which are usual in great palaces: thus, says he, the heaven is, as it were, God's place of dwelling, his principal apartment; the earth is that to him which the cellars are in a large house.