Amos 9:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

the LORD. One of the 134 places where the Sepherim say they altered "Jehovah" of the primitive text to "Adonai" (App-2). See App-4. Here it is combined with 'eth. Jehovah Himself.

upon beside, or by.

the altar. Probably the same altar at Beth-al where Jeroboam had once stood (1 Kings 13:1). Compare Amos 7:13, lintel. capital. Render: "smite the capital, shake the foundations, cut them off [i.e. the pillars] by the head, all of them". and. will slay. This is the signification of the symbolical act. the last of them: i.e. the remnant of the People.

Amos 9:1

1 I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.