Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Amos 7:7
Verse Amos 7:7. With a plumbline in his hand.] This appears to be intended as an emblem of strict justice, and intimated that God would now visit them according to their iniquities.
Verse Amos 7:7. With a plumbline in his hand.] This appears to be intended as an emblem of strict justice, and intimated that God would now visit them according to their iniquities.
STOOD UPON - (Rather “over” “a wall” made by “a plumbline;” lit. “a wall of a plumbline,” that is, (as our’s has it) “made” straight, perpendicular, “by” it. The wall had been “made by a lead” or “plu...
III. THE FIVE VISIONS OF THE PROPHET CHAPTER 7 Three Visions and the Opposition Against Amos _ 1. The vision of locusts (Amos 7:1) _ 2. The vision concerning the fire (Amos 7:4) 3. The vision of...
THE VISION OF THE WALL. The third vision is more difficult. The prophet saw (Amos 7:7) and behold, Yahweh stood by a wall of -'_ anak_, and in His hand -'_ anak._ -'_ Anak_ is usually translated plumm...
THE LORD. One of the 134 passages in which the _Sopherim_ say they altered Jehovah of the primitive text to Adonai (App-32). MADE, &c.: i.. [made perpendicular] by. plummet. PLUMBLINE. plummet. Occu...
_upon_ or leaning _over_(cf. Amos 9:1), i.e. (R.V.) BESIDE. The prophet sees Jehovah _stationed_(Genesis 28:13; Isaiah 3:13 a, Isaiah 21:8 b),...
The third vision. The plumb-line. Here Amos does not see the calamity itself, but only the symbol that it is decreed (cf. the almond-tree, and the seething pot, in Jeremiah 1:11; Jeremiah 1:13)....
_THE VISION OF THE PLUMB LINE -- AMOS 7:7-9:_ The third vision was that of the Lord Himself standing on a wall with a plumb line in His hand. The plumb line had been used to measure the straightness o...
UPON A WALL MADE BY A PLUMB-LINE— Literally, _Upon a wall of a plumb-line;_ or, erected by a plumb-line, in order to be perpendicular and firm. God is exhibited in this vision, as erecting, or as repa...
PROPHECIES PRESENTED, Chapter S 7-9 CAUSES OF JUDGMENT PROPHESIEDNOT ALIGNED WITH GOD'S STANDARD TEXT: Amos 7:1-9 1 Thus the Lord, Jehovah showed me: and, behold, he formed locusts in the beginning...
Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand. AND, BEHOLD, THE LORD STOOD UPON A WALL MADE BY A PLUMB-LINE - namely, perpendicular....
THREE VISIONS AND AN INTERRUPTION 1-9. The visions. 10-17. The interruption. There are two senses in which the word 'Vision' may be used of one of the forms of Hebrew prophecy. In the first sense a...
THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 7 V1 This is what the *Lord the Ruler showed me. He was preparing a large number of *locusts....
WALL MADE BY A PLUMBLINE — _i.e.,_ a perpendicular wall, the stability of the kingdom being represented by the closely-fitting well-jointed stones of a lofty wall. Right in the heart of this strong-bu...
כֹּ֣ה הִרְאַ֔נִי וְ הִנֵּ֧ה אֲדֹנָ֛י נִצָּ֖ב...
5. THE PROPHET AND HIS MINISTRY Amos 7:1 - Amos 8:1 We have seen the preparation of the Man for the Word; we have sought to trace to its source the Word which came to the Man. It now remains for us...
THE HERDSMAN'S MESSAGE Amos 7:1-17 The _king's mowings_ were the earliest yield of the grasslands, which were exacted by him. Our King also has His mowings, when He takes to Himself our dearest and...
In this division the prophet gave a fivefold vision of judgment, introduced in the first four cases by the words, "The Lord God showed me." The last vision was of Jehovah Himself. The vision of the lo...
Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall [made] by a plumbline, (e) with a plumbline in his hand. (e) Signifying that this would be the last measuring of the people, and that he wou...
Plastered. Hebrew, "wall, made by a plumb-line, with a plumb-line in his hand." (Protestants) (Haydock) --- But Septuagint, Syriac, &c., seem more literal, (Calmet) "on a wall of adamant, and a diamon...
We have here a third sermon of the Prophet in figure, and to the same amount as the former. The similitude of measuring is adopted, and probably it was here meant to shew the time limited thereby 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...
This vision opens more clearly to us what the Prophet meant before, and what was the object of his doctrine: his intention was to show the people that what they had gained by their obstinacy was only...
God had long waited patiently. More than once He had been on the point of giving Israel up to judgment. The intercession of the prophet, that is to say, of the Spirit of Christ which wrought in the pr...
THUS HE SHOWED ME,.... A third vision, which was in the following manner: AND, BEHOLD, THE LORD STOOD UPON A WALL [MADE] BY A PLUMBLINE, WITH A PLUMBLINE IN HIS HAND: this "wall" was the people of Is...
Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall [made] by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand. Ver. 7. _This he showed me, and behold_] See Amos 7:4 . _ The Lord stood upon a wall ma...
_The Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumb-line_ A wall strongly and beautifully built. God's judgments are sometimes represented in Scripture by a line and a plummet, to denote that they are measure...
Thus He showed me, in a third vision; AND, BEHOLD, THE LORD STOOD UPON A WALL MADE BY A PLUMB-LINE, one which was built upright and according to all the rules of the craft, WITH A PLUMB-LINE IN HIS HA...
THE VISIONS OF THE GRASSHOPPERS, OF THE FIRE, AND OF THE PLUMB-LINE....
1-9 God bears long, but he will not bear always with a provoking people. The remembrance of the mercies we formerly received, like the produce of the earth of the former growth, should make us submis...
THUS HE SHEWED ME: AND, BEHOLD: see AMOS 7:1. THE LORD; the great God, who had long tried Israel, and often spared. STOOD UPON A WALL; possibly it may denote his fixed purpose now to proceed to demoli...
Amos 7:7 showed H7200 (H8689) Lord H136 stood H5324 (H8737) wall H2346 line H594 line H594 hand...
THE THIRD VISION. THE VISION OF THE PLUMB-LINE AND THE RESULTING RESPONSE (AMOS 7:7). In this third vision YHWH carried some kind of measuring device as He stood beside a wall, presumably with the pur...
THE FOUR VISIONS (AMOS 7:1 TO AMOS 8:14). In a similar way to the seven judgments in Amos 1:2 to Amos 2:5, followed by the expanded judgment on Israel, which all initially follo
CONTENTS: Threatening judgments. The prophet's intercession no longer to prevail. Amos charged before the king and his answer. CHARACTERS: God, Amos, Amaziah, Jeroboam. CONCLUSION: God's patience, wh...
Amos 7:1. _He formed grasshoppers,_ which are the same as the locusts. _After the king's mowings._ It is supposed that the first grass, or the proud corn cut with the scythe, was a tribute to the king...
_The Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in His hand._ GOD IN RELATION TO HUMAN WORK All men are workers, the world is “full of labour.” The words suggest two facts in relat...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 7:1 Visions of Judgment. In the final section of the book, Amos turns from speech to sight. He tells of visions he has received from God that confirm the nation’s situation. The firs...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 7:7 The third picture that God SHOWED Amos was of a PLUMB LINE held against a WALL. A plumb line is a string with a weight fastened to its end. When the string is placed b
CRITICAL NOTES.] SHOWED] three visions in this ch. LOCUSTS (Amos 7:1) the first; “all inward tuitions produced by the Spirit of God, which set forth the primitive judgments of God” [_Keil_]. BEGIN.] T...
EXPOSITION VERSE 1-CH. 9:10 Part III. FIVE VISIONS, WITH EXPLANATIONS, CONTINUING AND CONFIRMING THE PREVIOUS PROPHECY. The afflictions are climactic, increasing in intensity. The first two symbolize...
Now the Lord showed unto Amos certain judgments whereby He could bring His judgment against Israel. These were shown to Amos, no doubt, in the form of a vision. And thus hath the Lord GOD showed unto...
2 Kings 21:13; 2 Samuel 8:2; Ezekiel 40:3; Isaiah 28:17; Isaiah 34:11
By a plumb — line — Strongly and beautifully built....