Amos 7:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The high places; the temples on high mountains built to idols, or for the worship of God, though he forbade them. Of Isaac: the father is here named, but his children are intended, all the seed of Isaac. I cannot, though some do, think the prophet alludes to Isaac's being offered upon a high mountain. Shall be desolate; shall be rased to the foundation, or left to moulder and fall with length of time, and assaults of storms and weather. The sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste: this explains the former, and, speaking after the custom of those times, the prophet calls the idol temples sanctuaries, whether in Dan and Beth-el or elsewhere. I will rise; God will, but not immediately, rise up: he will stir up some or other to do what he threatens. Against the house of Jeroboam; in the days of Zachariah, (son of Jeroboam,) murdered by Shallum. With the sword, first of a conspirator, Shallum, next of civil war.