Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Amos 9:9
The least grain — Though tumbled and tossed with the great violence, yet the smallest, good grain, shall not be lost or destroyed.
The least grain — Though tumbled and tossed with the great violence, yet the smallest, good grain, shall not be lost or destroyed.
Verse Amos 9:9. _I WILL SIFT THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AMONG ALL NATIONS_] I will disperse them over the face of the earth; and yet I will so order it that the _good_ shall not be _lost_; for though they sh...
FOR LO! I WILL COMMAND! - Literally, “lo! see, I am commanding.” He draws their attention to it, as something which shall shortly be; and inculcates that He is the secret disposer of all which shall b...
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...
LO. behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6. THE LEAST GRAIN. Hebrew. _tzeror._. usage common to-day with the _fellahheen_ (see James Niel's Palestine _Explored,_ p. 250). EARTH. Hebrew Wets. Not...
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...
The nation must go into exile (Amos 4:2 f., Amos 5:27 &c.); it must even be SHAKEN to and fro among the nations, as in a sieve: but no sound grain of corn will fall to the ground and be lost. The disp...
_the house of Jacob … the house of Israel_ i.e. (cf. Amos 5:1; Amos 5:4; Amos 5:6; Amos 6:14; Amos 7:10;...
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...
DISCOURSE: 1194 THE SECURITY OF ALL GOD’S PEOPLE Amos 9:9. _Lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve; yet shall not the least grain...
I WILL SIFT THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL— This prophesy remarkably agrees with the present state of the Jews. "I will mingle and scatter the Israelites among all nations, just as good and bad grain are mingled...
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...
For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. SIFT - I will cause the Israeli...
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...
כִּֽי ־הִנֵּ֤ה אָֽנֹכִי֙ מְצַוֶּ֔ה וַ הֲנִעֹ֥ותִי...
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...
For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as [corn] is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the (h) least grain fall upon the earth. (h) Meaning that none of hi...
_Ground, to be mixed with the good corn. --- Israel shall be purified in captivity. (Calmet) --- Though many perished, God still preserved his Church. (Worthington)_...
"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...
_THE GARNERING OF THE LEAST GRAIN_ ‘I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.’ Amos 9:9 There is doubl...
He afterwards adds, _For, lo, I will command, etc_. The Prophet here confirms the former sentence; and hence I conclude that the second part of the preceding verse is ironically expressed; for if he h...
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...
FOR, LO, I WILL COMMAND,.... What follows; which is expressive of afflictive and trying dispensations of Providence, which are according to the will of God, by his appointment and order, and overruled...
For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as [corn] is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. Ver. 9. _For lo, I will command...
_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...
For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel, shaking them as in a colander, or sieve, AMONG ALL NATIONS, LIKE AS CORN IS SIFTED IN A SIEVE, YET SHALL NOT THE LEAST GRAIN FALL UPON THE...
THE WICKED KINGDOM OVERTHROWN...
SIFT: _ Heb._ cause to move GRAIN: _ Heb._ stone...
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,...
FOR, LO: as this confirms what the 8th verse promiseth, so it requireth a very diligent and full attention of us. I WILL COMMAND, or give a charge to all nations whither these exiled persons shall com...
Amos 9:9 command H6680 (H8764) sift H5128 (H8689) house H1004 Israel H3478 nations H1471 sifted H5128 ...
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...
SIFT (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 72:1). _...
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...
_I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall net the least grain fall upon the earth._ WINNOWING The winnowing of corn was effected in various ways...
_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...
A SIEVE A sieve. Amos 9:9. Do you know a sieve when you see it? If you go to the kitchen and watch mother baking a cake or biscuits you will notice that she shakes or rubs the flour through a tin th...
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...
Deuteronomy 28:64; Leviticus 26:33...
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...