Amos 7:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

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.

Amos 7:9

9 And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.