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Amos 7:1 open_in_new
the Lord GOD. Hebrew Adonai Jehovah. App-4.
behold... lo. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6.
formed. was forming.
grasshoppers. locusts. Compare Nahum 3:17.
the king's mowings. Exacted by the king from the People (1 Kings 4:7; 1 Kings 18:1). These are the symbols of the army of Amos 6:14.
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Amos 7:2 open_in_new
by whom shall Jacob arise? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac and Vulgate, read "who shall raise up Jacob'? "
Jacob. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of the Subject), App-6, for the whole nation
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Amos 7:3 open_in_new
The LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.
repented. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6 Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:36). App-92. Compare Jonah 3:10.
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Amos 7:4 open_in_new
called, &c.. was calling for fire, to contend [with Israel].
did eat up. part. would have eaten up the land.
a part. Hebrew. hahelek, with 'eth. the very portion [of the earth given to Israel). Compare Micah 2:4.
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Amos 7:7 open_in_new
the LORD. One of the 134 passages in which the Sopherim say they altered Jehovah of the primitive text to Adonai (App-32).
made, &c.: i.. [made perpendicular] by. plummet.
plumbline. plummet. Occurs only here.
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Amos 7:8 open_in_new
Amos. Note this personal touch.
set, &c. i.e. measure [the doings of Israel] with the plummet of righteousness
and judgment. Compare 2 Kings 21:12.Isaiah 28:17; Isaiah 34:11.Lamentations 2:8, &c.
pass by them. forgive them.
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Amos 7:9 open_in_new
high places. Used for idolatrous altars, &c.
Isaac... Israel. Used only by Amos in this sense. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, for the nation of Israel. Compare Pe. Psalms 105:9; Psalms 105:10; Jeremiah 33:26, &c.
I will rise against, &c. Fulfilled in 2 Kings 15:10. Jeroboam. Compare Hosea 1:4.
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Amos 7:11 open_in_new
Jeroboam shall die, &c. This charge was not true. Compare Acts 17:6-7; Acts 24:5. Note what Amaziah omitted to repeat.
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Amos 7:12 open_in_new
into. Judah. Though belonging to Judah (Amos 1:1) Amos was. prophet to Israel.
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Amos 7:13 open_in_new
chapel. sanctuary, court: or, palace.
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Amos 7:14 open_in_new
a prophet's son. Prophets were not hereditary as priests were. Compare Hebrews 1:1.
herdman. See notes on Amos 1:1,
gatherer. preparer.
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Amos 7:15 open_in_new
took me: i.e., called me Prophets were called by Jehovah; not born prophets, or made prophets by man. See notes on 1 Samuel 10:5.Hebrews 1:1.
as. followed, &c. Compare Psalms 78:70; Psalms 78:71.
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Amos 7:16 open_in_new
drop not, the. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:2). App-92. Compare Ezekiel 20:46; Ezekiel 20:21; Ezekiel 20:2.Micah 2:6, margin
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Amos 7:17 open_in_new
thus saith the LORD. See note on Amos 1:3,
be an harlot: i.e. become. victim to the lust of the invader.
land. soil. Hebrew adamah.
divided, &c.:. e. partitioned.
in. polluted land. on polluted (i e. heathen) soil,
forth of. from upon.