Amos 7:8-17
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.]
centers of worship <01116> [the high.]
[Beer-sheba.]
attack <06965> [I will. "Fulfilled,"]
priest <03548> [the priest.]
This was truly a lying prophet; there was not one word of truth in his message to Jeroboam.
conspiring against <07194> [hath.]
cannot <03201> [not.]
Amos <05986> [thus.]
Jeroboam <03379> [Jeroboam.]
Israel <03478> [and Israel.]
visionary <02374> [O thou.]
<03212> [go.]
Earn <0398> [eat.]
prophesy <05012> [prophesy.]
royal <04428> [for.]
temple <04720> [chapel. or, sanctuary. king's court. Heb. house of the kingdom.]
prophet ... profession <05030> [neither.]
herdsman <0951> [an herdman.]
took care <01103> [a gatherer.]
Rather, as {bolais} is rendered by the LXX. and Vulgate, [knizon,] {vellicans,} "a scraping," or a scraper of sycamores; for the fruit does not ripen till it is rubbed with iron combs.
[sycamore fruit. or, wild figs.]
took <03947> [took.]
me ... tending <0310> [as I followed. Heb. from behind. Go.]
listen <08085> [hear.]
prophesy <05012> [Prophesy.]
preach <05197> [and drop.]
wife <0802> [Thy wife.]
land .............. land ............ land <0127> [thy land.]
die <04191> [die.]
Israel <03478> [and Israel.]
