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

“ For, lo, I will command, and I will siftb the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. ”

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

For lo! I will command! - Literally, “lo! see, I am commanding.” He draws their attention to it, as something which shall shortly be; and inculcates that He is the secret disposer of all which sh...
Amos 9:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as [corn] is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the (h) least grain fall upon the earth. (h) Meaning that none of h...
Amos 9:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Restoration of God's People. This section is probably a post-exilic appendix to the book. The point of view has changed, the fate of Israel being quite different from that contemplated in the r...
Amos 9:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

lo . behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6. the least grain. Hebrew. tzeror. . usage common to-day with the fellahheen (see James Niel's Palestine Explored, p. 250). earth. Hebrew We...
Amos 9:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

He afterwards adds, For, lo, I will command, etc. The Prophet here confirms the former sentence; and hence I conclude that the second part of the preceding verse is ironically expressed; f...
Amos 9:9 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1194 THE SECURITY OF ALL GOD’S PEOPLE Amos 9:9 . Lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve; yet shall not the least...
Amos 9:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. I will sift the house of Israel...
Amos 9:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

I will sift the house of Israel— This prophesy remarkably agrees with the present state of the Jews. "I will mingle and scatter the Israelites among all nations, just as good and bad grain are ming...
Amos 9:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. Sift - I will cause the I...
Amos 9:9 - 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 9:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Sift. — Literally, shake to and fro. That which is not chaff shall be preserved and dispersed as seed. The race shall live, though the kingdom be destroyed. This peculiar judgment is threatened i...
Amos 9:9 - 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 9:9 - 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 9:9 - 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 9:9 - 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 9:9 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

THE GARNERING OF THE LEAST GRAIN ‘I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.’ Amos 9:9 There is...
Amos 9:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For, lo, I will command ,.... What follows; which is expressive of afflictive and trying dispensations of Providence, which are according to the will of God, by his appointment and order, and overru...
Amos 9:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as [corn] is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. Ver. 9. For lo, I will comma...
Amos 9:9 - 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 9:9 - 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 9:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

For, lo: as this confirms what the 8th verse promiseth, so it requireth a very diligent and full attention of us. I will command, or give a charge to all nations whither these exiled persons shal...
Amos 9:9 - 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 9:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 9:9 .] The figure explains how. For ] God will disperse Israel, shake them with other nations. Wheat and chaff are mixed together. The wicked, chaff and dust, fall throu...
Amos 9:9 - Scofield Reference Notes

sift ( See Scofield) - ( Psalms 72:1 ).
Amos 9:9 - 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 9:9 - 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 9:9 - 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 9:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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

Deuteronomy 28:64 ; Leviticus 26:33
Amos 9:9 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

A Bird's-Eye View of Amos Amos 9:9-15 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We wish to suggest five things about the Prophet whom God used to deliver His message to Israel. 1. Amos, the man. Our opening verse...
Amos 9:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The least grain — Though tumbled and tossed with the great violence, yet the smallest, good grain, shall not be lost or destroyed.

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

Amos 9:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

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

Amos 9:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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

Amos 9:9 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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

Amos 9:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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

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

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

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

Amos 9:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

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

Amos 9:9 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

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

Amos 9:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

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

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

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

Amos 9:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Amos 9:9 - Scofield Reference Notes

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

Amos 9:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

Amos 9:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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

Amos 9:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 9:9 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Amos 9:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes