Amos 7:8
Amos <05986> [Amos.]
Tin ............. tin <0594> [a plumbline.]
This was an emblem of strict justice; and intimated that God would now visit them according to their iniquities.
place <07760> [I will set.]
<03254> [I will not.]
Amos 8:8
earth <0776> [the land.]
It is supposed that an earthquake is here intended; the rising and falling of the ground, with a wave-like motion, and its leaving its proper place and bounds, in consequence of an earthquake, being justly and beautifully compared to the swelling, overflowing, and subsiding of the Nile.
mourn <056> [every one.]
rise <05927> [rise.]
Amos 8:12
wander about <07751> [shall run.]
Amos 8:14
oaths <07650> [swear.]
sinful <0819> [sin.]
beloved <01870> [manner. Heb. way.]
Beer Sheba <0884> [Beer-sheba. See on ver.]
fall down <05307> [shall fall.]
Amos 9:5-6
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.]
