Amos 9
1 The certainty of the desolation.
11 The restoring of the tabernacle of David.
saw <07200> [I saw.]
altar <04196> [upon.]
Strike <05221> [Smite.]
tops of the support pillars <03730> [lintel. or, chapiter, or knop. cut them. or, wound them. in the head.]
run away <05127> [shall not flee.]
dig ........... up ........ climb up <02864 05927> [Though.]
All these energetic expressions were intended to shew the utter impossibility of escape.
dig <02864> [dig.]
up ........ climb up <05927> [climb.]
hide <02244> [hide.]
hide <05641> [hid.]
Sea Serpent <05175> [the serpent.]
<03212> [go.]
I .... let <07760> [set.]
touches <05060> [toucheth.]
live <03427> [and all.]
rises <05927> [shall rise.]
builds <01129> [buildeth.]
upper rooms <04609> [stories. or, spheres. Heb. ascensions.]
{M„ƒloth,} "upper chambers," which in eastern houses are the principal apartments. Perhaps there is a reference here to the various systems which God has created in illimitable space, transcending each other as the planets do in our system.
supports <092> [troop. or, bundle.]
{Aguddah} probably is the same as the Arabic {ijad,} "an arch, vault," and may here denote the vault of heaven, or atmosphere, which God "hath founded, or established, upon, or over, {Æ’l,} the earth," and into which "he calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth."
summons <07121> [calleth.]
Lord <03068> [The Lord.]
Israelites ...... Ethiopians <01121> [ye not.]
up <05927> [Have not.]
Philistines <06430> [the Philistines.]
Arameans <0758> [the Syrians.]
<05869> [the eyes.]
destroy ............. completely destroy <08045> [and I.]
[savings.]
shake ............. resemble <05128> [and I.]
shake ............. resemble <05128> [sift. Heb. cause to move. grain. Heb. stone.]
sinners <02400> [the sinners.]
Disaster <07451> [The evil.]
day ........................... days <03117> [that day.]
rebuild ............ repair <06965> [raise.]
hut <05521> [the tabernacle.]
seal <01443> [close. Heb. hedge, or wall.]
day ........................... days <03117> [as in.]
conquer <03423> [possess.]
Edom <0123> [Edom.]
subject .... rule <07121 08034> [which are called by my name. Heb. upon whom my name is called.]
plowman <02790> [plowman.]
overtake <04900> [soweth. Heb. draweth forth. the mountains.]
Juice <06071> [sweet wine. or, new wine. the hills.]
bring back <07725> [I will bring.]
rebuild <01129> [build.]
plant <05193> [plant.]
uprooted <05428> [they shall.]
As the Jews, after their return from Babylon, were driven from their land by the Romans, this can only refer to their future conversion and restoration, and to the security and peace of the church.
