All the sinners of My people, namely, those who persist in their godlessness and false security, shall die by the sword, which say. The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us, that is, precede or reach us. When God is once determined to punish the wicked, there is no power which may stop Him, and all the efforts of the godless to escape His wrath are futile.
Verse Amos 9:10. _ALL THE SINNERS OF MY PEOPLE_] Those who are the boldest and most incredulous; especially they who _despise_ my warnings, and _say the evil day shall not overtake nor prevent us_; th...
ALL THE SINNERS OF MY PEOPLE SHALL PERISH - At the last, when the longsuffering of God has been despised to the uttermost, His Providence is exact in His justice, as in His love. As not “one grain sho...
CHAPTER 9 The Passing of a Kingdom and the Coming of the Kingdom _ 1. The fifth vision: The passing of a kingdom (Amos 9:1) _ 2. The coming of the kingdom (Amos 9:11) Amos 9:1. In his fifth vision...
THE RESTORATION OF GOD'S PEOPLE. This section is probably a post-exilic appendix to the book. The point of view has changed, the fate of Israel being quite different from that contemplated in the rest...
SINNERS. Hebrew. _chata_, as in Amos 9:8. prevent. surprise....
An objection met. The Israelites were only too ready to argue (cf. Amos 3:2; Jeremiah 7:1-15) that Jehovah, after the many marks of favour which He had bestowed upon His people, would never cast them...
Jehovah's eyes are against (Job 7:8) the sinful kingdom, whatsoever or wheresoever it be, and He will destroy it from off the face of the earth (Deuteronomy 6:15), save only, if the kingdom be that of...
_which say, The evil shall not_ DRAW NEAR, _or_ COME IN FRONT ABOUT _us_ i.e. shall not meet us in any direction. The sinners whom the prophet has here specially in view are those who, trusting to the...
THE LORD HE IS GOD -- AMOS 9:7-10 : God wanted it understood that not only was Israel dependent upon God but that the entire world stood in total dependence on the Almighty. "Are you not like the Cush...
DESCRIPTION OF JUDGMENTS PROPHESIEDDISRUPTION AND DISPERSION TEXT: Amos 9:7-10 7 Are ye not as the children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith Jehovah. Have not I brought up Isr...
All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us. ALL THE SINNERS OF MY PEOPLE SHALL DIE BY THE SWORD - "the sinners" - answering to the c...
THE CONCLUDING VISION AND A DISCOURSE. COMFORTABLE WORDS 1. The vision. 2-10. The discourse, declaring that none shall evade God's judgments (Amos 9:2); that Israel stands in no peculiar relationship...
THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 9 GOD’S JUDGEMENT AGAINST ISRAEL V1 I saw the *Lord standing by the *altar. He said: ‘Hit the top of the columns....
SIFT. — Literally, _shake to and fro._ That which is not chaff shall be preserved and dispersed as seed. The race shall live, though the kingdom be destroyed. This peculiar judgment is threatened in L...
בַּ † חֶ֣רֶב יָמ֔וּתוּ כֹּ֖ל חַטָּאֵ֣י עַמִּ֑י...
3. THE VOICES OF ANOTHER DAWN Amos 9:7 And now we are come to the part where, as it seems, voices of another day mingle with that of Amos, and silence his judgments in the chorus of their unbroken ho...
THE DAY OF RESTORATION Amos 9:1-15 The guilty will certainly be punished. If they enter the sacred place of worship, even that will not shelter them, Amos 9:1. Flight and concealment will be in vain....
The final vision was of judgment executed. In this there was no symbol, no sign. We hear the manifesto of Jehovah Himself. It is one of the most awe-inspiring visions of the whole Bible. The message p...
_Us. Such infidels delayed repentance, (Haydock) or laughed at the menaces of impending ruin, chap. v. 18. (Calmet)_...
"Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD. (9) For,...
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. "The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the...
Amos goes on with the same subject, — that God without any measure of cruelty would execute extreme vengeance on a reprobate people: _Die, _he says, _by the sword all the wicked of my people. _In nami...
Chapter 9 presents Jehovah Himself as directing the judgment in such a manner that Israel should in no wise escape it, God treating them as He would the nations that were strangers to Him, as the Phil...
ALL THE SINNERS OF MY PEOPLE SHALL DIE BY THE SWORD,.... By the sword of the Assyrians, and of others, into whose countries they shall flee for shelter, Amos 9:1; even all such who are notorious sinne...
All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us. Ver. 10. _All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword_] The flagitious, presumptuou...
_The eyes of the Lord are upon the sinful kingdom_ See Amos 9:4. _Saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob_ God still promises to preserve a remnant in the midst of his heaviest judgm...
1-10 The prophet, in vision, saw the Lord standing upon the idolatrous altar at Bethel. Wherever sinners flee from God's justice, it will overtake them. Those whom God brings to heaven by his grace,...
ALL THE SINNERS OF MY PEOPLE, the great, notorious sinners, idolaters, oppressors, perverters of law and equity, cruel and inhuman judges and others, shall die by the sword; either at home in the wars...
Amos 9:10 sinners H2400 people H5971 die H4191 (H8799) sword H2719 say H559 (H8802) calamity H7451 overtake...
YHWH WILL INEXORABLY DEAL IN JUDGMENT WITH HIS PEOPLE, WHO HAVE FORGOTTEN WHO AND WHAT HE REALLY IS, AND THERE WILL THEREFORE BE NO HIDING PLACE FOR THEM (AMOS 9:1). There is something genuinely aweso...
CONTENTS: Final prophecy of dispersion of Israel and their ultimate restoration and blessing in the kingdom age. CHARACTERS: God, Amos. CONCLUSION: The sword of war is the sword of divine vengeance,...
Amos 9:1. _I saw the Lord standing upon the altar_ in Jerusalem, as in Isaiah 6:1, and Ezekiel 9:3. Here the prophet heard the awful words, that God would hunt the idolaters from all their hiding plac...
_Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto Me, O children of Israel?_ SIN DISSOLVING THE UNION BETWEEN GOD AND HIS PEOPLE 1. These verses strike at the root of all Israel’s fancied security. They...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 9:1 This final vision has two parts, one negative (vv. Amos 9:1) and the other positive (vv. Amos 9:11). God considers wo
CRITICAL NOTES.] AMOS 9:9.] The figure explains how. FOR] God will disperse Israel, shake them with other nations. Wheat and chaff are mixed together. The wicked, chaff and dust, fall through the siev...
EXPOSITION AMOS 9:1 § 6_. The fifth vision displays the Lord standing by the altar and _commanding the destruction of the temple (Amos 9:1). No one shall escape this judgment, flee whither he will (A...
Now in chapter 9 the final prophecy of Amos, he said, 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 the...
Amos 6:1; Amos 6:3; Ecclesiastes 8:11; Ezekiel 20:38; Ezekiel 34:16;...
A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF AMOS Amos 9:9 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We wish to suggest five things about the Prophet whom God used to deliver His message to Israel. 1. AMOS, THE MAN. Our opening verse reads: "Th...
All the sinners — The great, notorious sinners. The evil — Is far off, we shall die first, and be safe in the grave....