Amos 9:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

Height or depth are alike open to the Omnipresent God. The grave is not so awful as God. The sinner would gladly “dig through” into hell, bury himself, the living among the dead, if so he could escape the sight of God. But thence, God says, “My hand shall take them,” to place them in His presence, to receive their sentence. Or if, like the rebel angels, they could “place” their “throne amid the stars Isaiah 14:12-14 of God thence will I bring them down,” humbling, judging, condemning.

Amos 9:2

2 Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down: