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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Amos 9:8

Sinful nation. — The kingdom of the ten tribes which had so utterly revolted from the true centre and spiritual ideas of the worship of Jehovah.

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See also Amos 9:8 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Amos 9:8. _THE EYES OF THE LORD GOD_ ARE _UPON THE SINFUL KINGDOM_] The kingdom of Israel, peculiarly sinful; and therefore to be signally destroyed by the Assyrians. _I WILL NOT UTTERLY DESTRO...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BEHOLD THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE UPON THE SINFUL KINGDOM - The sinful kingdom may mean each “sinful kingdom,” as Paul says, God “will render unto every man according to his deeds - unto them who do not...

  • 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 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)...

  • 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

    BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos_. App-6. SINFUL. Hebrew. _chata_. App-44. EARTH. ground, or soil. Hebrew adamah....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Jehovah's eyes are against (Job 7:8) the sinful kingdom, whatsoever or wheresoever it be, and He will destroy it from off the face of the earth (Deuteronomy 6:15), save only, if the kingdom be that of...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the house of Jacob … the house of Israel_ i.e. (cf. Amos 5:1; Amos 5:4; Amos 5:6; Amos 6:14; Amos 7:10;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    An objection met. The Israelites were only too ready to argue (cf. Amos 3:2; Jeremiah 7:1-15) that Jehovah, after the many marks of favour which He had bestowed upon His people, would never cast them...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    THE LORD HE IS GOD -- AMOS 9:7-10 : God wanted it understood that not only was Israel dependent upon God but that the entire world stood in total dependence on the Almighty. "Are you not like the Cush...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    DESCRIPTION OF JUDGMENTS PROPHESIEDDISRUPTION AND DISPERSION TEXT: Amos 9:7-10 7 Are ye not as the children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith Jehovah. Have not I brought up Isr...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD. BEHOLD...

  • 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....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הִנֵּ֞ה עֵינֵ֣י ׀ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֗ה בַּ † מַּמְלָכָה֙...

  • 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 eyes of the Lord GOD [are] upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly (g) destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD. (g...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    "Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD. (9) For,...

  • 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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Here the Prophet concludes that God would take vengeance on the Israelites as on other nations, without any difference; for they could not set up anything to prevent his judgment. It was indeed an ext...

  • 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 EYES OF THE LORD GOD [ARE] UPON THE SINFUL KINGDOM,.... God is omniscient, and his eyes are everywhere, and upon all persons, good and bad, and upon all kingdoms, especially upon a sinful...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD [are] upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD. Ver. 8...

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

    _The eyes of the Lord are upon the sinful kingdom_ See Amos 9:4. _Saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob_ God still promises to preserve a remnant in the midst of his heaviest judgm...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, directed against it to work His punishment, AND I WILL DESTROY IT FROM OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH, namely, the sinful people as such, SAVIN...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE WICKED KINGDOM OVERTHROWN...

  • 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

    BEHOLD; consider things better, and argue more like men of reason. THE EYES OF THE LORD GOD; God of infinite purity and knowledge, whose nature hateth all sin, and whose office it is to punish sinners...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Amos 9:8 eyes H5869 Lord H136 GOD H3069 sinful H2403 kingdom H4467 destroy H8045 (H8689) face H6440 earth...

  • 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...

  • 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

    _Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto Me, O children of Israel?_ SIN DISSOLVING THE UNION BETWEEN GOD AND HIS PEOPLE 1. These verses strike at the root of all Israel’s fancied security. They...

  • 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 9:9.] 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 siev...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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, bla...

  • 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

    1 Kings 13:34; Amos 9:4; Deuteronomy 4:31; Deuteronomy 6:15; Genesis 6:7

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The sinful kingdom — Every sinful kingdom....

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