Amos 2:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

Yet. Former blessings now cited to heighten the crime of their fivefold rebellion.

the Amorite. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 21:24.Deuteronomy 2:32-34; Deuteronomy 2:32-34). App-92. Compare Joshua 24:8. These being the descendants of the Nephilim were all to have been destroyed, with the other Canaanite nations, by the sword of Israel. See App-23 and App-25.

them. Some codices, with three early printed editions, read "you".

height. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 21:24.Deuteronomy 2:32-34; Deuteronomy 2:32-34). App-92.

Amos 2:9

9 Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.