Amos 7:1--9:15
showed <07200> [shewed.]
making <03335> [he.]
locusts <01462> [grasshoppers. or, green worms.]
{Govai,} in Arabic {gabee,} "locusts," probably in their caterpillar state, in which they are most destructive. This is supposed to have been an emblem of the first invasion of the Assyrians.
harvest <01488> [mowings.]
Or rather, feedings or grazings, as the people of the East make no hay. This was probably in the month of March, which is the only time of the year that the Arabs to this day feed their horses with grass.
completely <03615> [when.]
Sovereign <0136> [O Lord.]
Jacob survive <06965 03290> [by whom shall Jacob arise. or, who of (or for) Jacob shall stand?]
weak <06996> [for.]
saw <07200> [shewed.]
summoning <07121> [called.]
This is supposed to denote the invasion of Tiglathpileser, which threatened entire destruction.
stop <02308> [cease.]
weak <06996> [for.]
wall <02346> [a wall.]
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.]
Amos <05986> [Amos.]
basket <03619> [A basket.]
end <07093> [the end.]
There is here not only an allusion to the nature of the summer fruit, which must be eaten as soon as gathered, but also a paronomasia upon the words {kayitz,} "summer fruit," and {ketz,} "an end."
<03254> [I will not.]
singing <07892> [the songs.]
wail <03213> [shall be howlings. Heb. shall howl. many.]
littered <07993> [they shall.]
Be quiet <02013> [with silence. Heb. be silent.]
Listen <08085> [Hear.]
trample <07602> [swallow.]
new moon <02320> [When.]
new moon <02320> [new moon. or, month. be gone.]
Sabbath ................... price <07676 08255> [and the.]
open up <06605> [set forth. Heb. open. making.]
cheat ..... rigged scales <03976 04820 05791> [falsifying the balances by deceit. Heb. perverting the balances of deceit.]
oath <07650> [sworn.]
never <05331> [I will.]
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.]
sun <08121> [that I.]
This is supposed to refer to an eclipse; and Abp. Usher has shown that about eleven years after Amos prophesied there were two great eclipses of the sun, one at the feast of tabernacles, and the other some time before the passover.
dark <02821> [and I.]
turn <02015> [I will turn.]
funeral clothes <08242> [sackcloth.]
funerals ............................ mourn <060> [as the.]
bitter <04751> [a bitter.]
divine revelation <08085> [but.]
wander about <07751> [shall run.]
oaths <07650> [swear.]
sinful <0819> [sin.]
beloved <01870> [manner. Heb. way.]
Beer Sheba <0884> [Beer-sheba. See on ver.]
fall down <05307> [shall fall.]
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.
