Amos 9:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD. ”

Amos 9:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Behold the eyes of the Lord are upon the sinful kingdom - The sinful kingdom may mean each “sinful kingdom,” as Paul says, God “will render unto every man according to his deeds - unto them who d...
Amos 9:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD [are] upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly (g) destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD. (...
Amos 9:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Vision of an Avenging God. The last vision impresses upon Amos the anger and omnipotence of the supreme ruler and judge. Yahweh is seen ( Amos 9:1 ) stationed by or over the altar ( i.e. of Be...
Amos 9:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Behold. Figure of speech Asterismos . App-6. sinful. Hebrew. chata . App-44. earth . ground, or soil. Hebrew adamah.
Amos 9:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Here the Prophet concludes that God would take vengeance on the Israelites as on other nations, without any difference; for they could not set up anything to prevent his judgment. It was indeed...
Amos 9:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD. The ey...
Amos 9:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD....
Amos 9:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Concluding Vision and a Discourse. Comfortable Words 1. The vision. 2-10 . The discourse, declaring that none shall evade God's judgments ( Amos 9:2-6 ); that Israel stands in no peculiar re...
Amos 9:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Sinful nation . — The kingdom of the ten tribes which had so utterly revolted from the true centre and spiritual ideas of the worship of Jehovah.
Amos 9:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

3. THE VOICES OF ANOTHER DAWN Amos 9:7-15 And now we are come to the part where, as it seems, voices of another day mingle with that of Amos, and silence his judgments in the chorus of their un...
Amos 9:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Day of Restoration Amos 9:1-15 The guilty will certainly be punished. If they enter the sacred place of worship, even that will not shelter them, Amos 9:1 . Flight and concealment will be...
Amos 9:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The final vision was of judgment executed. In this there was no symbol, no sign. We hear the manifesto of Jehovah Himself. It is one of the most awe-inspiring visions of the whole Bible. The message...
Amos 9:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

"Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD. (9) For...
Amos 9:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Behold, the eyes of the Lord God [are] upon the sinful kingdom ,.... God is omniscient, and his eyes are everywhere, and upon all persons, good and bad, and upon all kingdoms, especially upon a sinf...
Amos 9:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD [are] upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD. Ver....
Amos 9:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The eyes of the Lord are upon the sinful kingdom See Amos 9:4 . Saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob God still promises to preserve a remnant in the midst of his heaviest ju...
Amos 9:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Certainty of the Sinner's Doom. B. C. 784. 1 I saw the Lord standing upon the altar:...
Amos 9:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Behold; consider things better, and argue more like men of reason. The eyes of the Lord God; God of infinite purity and knowledge, whose nature hateth all sin, and whose office it is to punish si...
Amos 9:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

YHWH Will Inexorably Deal In Judgment With His People, Who Have Forgotten Who And What He Really Is, And There Will Therefore Be No Hiding Place For Them ( Amos 9:1-10 ). There is something genuin...
Amos 9:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

HOMILETICS CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 9:7 . As children ] No longer highly favoured Israelites, but acting like Cushites. Their election of no avail. They had become like the heathen, accursed as...
Amos 9:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Amos 9:1 . I saw the Lord standing upon the altar in Jerusalem, as in Isaiah 6:1 , and Ezekiel 9:3 . Here the prophet heard the awful words, that God would hunt the idolaters from all their hidi...
Amos 9:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto Me, O children of Israel? Sin dissolving the union between God and His people 1. These verses strike at the root of all Israel’s fancied security....
Amos 9:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Amos 9:1-30 § 6 . The fifth vision displays the Lord standing by the altar and commanding the destruction of the temple ( Amos 9:1 ). No one shall escape this judgment, flee whi...
Amos 9:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Wicked Kingdom Overthrown
Amos 9:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 13:34 ; Amos 9:4 ; Deuteronomy 4:31 ; Deuteronomy 6:15 ; Genesis 6:7 ; Genesis 7:4 ; Hosea 1:6 ; Hosea 13:15 ; Hosea 13:16 ; Hosea 9:11-17 ; Isaiah 27:7 ; Isaiah 27:8 ; Jeremiah...
Amos 9:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The sinful kingdom — Every sinful kingdom.

Amos 9:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Amos 9:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Amos 9:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 9:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Amos 9:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 9:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Amos 9:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Amos 9:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 9:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Amos 9:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Amos 9:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Amos 9:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Amos 9:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Amos 9:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Amos 9:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Amos 9:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Amos 9:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Amos 9:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Amos 9:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 9:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Amos 9:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Amos 9:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Amos 9:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Amos 9:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Amos 9:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 9:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes