Amos 9:2-12

2 ¹"If they dig into Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; ²if they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.

3 If they hide themselves on ³the top of Carmel, from there I will search them out and take them; ⁴and if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.

4 ⁵And if they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them; ⁶and I will fix my eyes upon them for evil and not for good."

5 The Lord GOD of hosts, he who touches the earth and ⁷it melts, and all who dwell in it mourn, ⁸and all of it rises like the Nile, ⁹and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt;

6 ¹⁰who builds his upper chambers in the heavens and founds his vault upon the earth; ¹¹who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the surface of the earth-- ¹²the LORD is his name.

7 "Are you not like ¹³the Cushites to me, O people of Israel?" declares the LORD. ¹⁴"Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt, and ¹⁵the Philistines from ¹⁶Caphtor and the Syrians from ¹⁷Kir?

8 Behold, ¹⁸the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground, ¹⁹except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob," declares the LORD.

9 "For behold, I will command, ²⁰and shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes with a sieve, but no pebble shall fall to the earth.

10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, ²¹'Disaster shall not overtake or meet us.'

The Restoration of Israel

11 "In that day ²²I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen and repair its breaches, and raise up its ruins and rebuild it as in the days of old,

12 ²³that they may possess the remnant of Edom and ²⁴all the nations who are called by my name,"^[a] declares the LORD who does this.

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Amos 9:2-12 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO AMOS 9

This chapter contains the fifth and last vision the prophet saw; which represents the certain desolation of the land, city, and temple, and the slaughter of all sorts of persons, high and low, none should escape it, Am 9:1; be they where they would, they should be found out, whether in hell or heaven, on the tops of the highest mountains, or in the bottom of the sea, or in a foreign land, since the eyes of the Lord were upon them for evil, Am 9:2-4; nor could they hope to escape, when they considered his greatness and his power, and what he could do, and had done; and how they had behaved towards him, even though they were the people he had brought out of Egypt, Am 9:5-7; but though the sinful kingdom should be destroyed, yet not utterly, a remnant should be saved, Am 9:8-10; and the chapter is concluded with gracious promises of raising up the tabernacle of David fallen down, and of the return of the people of Israel to their own land; and of their settlement and continuance in it, never more to depart from it, Am 9:11-15.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 24

1. [Psalms 139:8-10]
2. [Psalms 139:8-10]
3. Amos 1:2
4. [Job 26:5]
5. [Deuteronomy 28:65]
6. See Jeremiah 21:10
7. Psalms 46:6
8. Amos 8:8
9. Amos 8:8
10. [Psalms 104:3, 5]
11. See Amos 5:8
12. See Amos 4:13
13. [Zephaniah 3:10]
14. Exodus 20:2
15. Jeremiah 47:4
16. Genesis 10:14
17. Amos 1:5
18. [ver. 4]
19. Jeremiah 30:11; [Obadiah 17]
20. [Jeremiah 15:7; Matthew 3:12; Luke 3:17]
21. [Amos 6:3]
22. Cited Acts 15:16
23. [Obadiah 19]
24. Cited Acts 15:17, 18

Footnotes 1

[a]. Hebrew; Septuagint (compare Acts 15:17) that the remnant of mankind and all the nations who are called by my name may seek the Lord

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