Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Amos 9:3
Verse Amos 9:3. Though they hide themselves] All these are metaphorical expressions, to show the impossibility of escape.
Verse Amos 9:3. Though they hide themselves] All these are metaphorical expressions, to show the impossibility of escape.
He had contrasted heaven and hell, as places impossible for man to reach; as I David says, “If I ascend into heaven, Thou art there: If l make my bed in hell, behold Thee” Psalms 139:8. Now, of places...
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...
THE VISION OF AN AVENGING GOD. The last vision impresses upon Amos the anger and omnipotence of the supreme ruler and judge. Yahweh is seen (Amos 9:1) stationed by or over the altar (_i.e._ of Bethel)...
Amos 9:1. The fifth vision, the smitten sanctuary. The people are all assembled for worship in their sanctuary: Jehovah is seen standing by the altar, and commanding the building to be so smitten that...
In whatever direction they flee, wherever they essay to hide themselves, and even though they should be in captivity in the enemy's land, they will not be able to elude the Divine anger....
Two other examples of remote or inaccessible hiding-places, similarly contrasted; Carmel, rising abruptly out of the sea, and the depths of the ocean which it overhangs. Carmel was in two ways a hidin...
GOD'S JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL -- AMOS 9:1-4 : The people of Israel had been unfaithful to God. They had worshipped idols, taken advantage of the poor, been dishonest in business and been very violent. Now...
DESCRIPTION OF JUDGMENTS PROPHESIEDTHOROUGH AND INESCAPABLE TEXT: Amos 9:1-6 1 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar: and he said, Smite the capitals, that the thresholds may shake; and break th...
And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he...
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...
CARMEL'S lofty, rough, wooded summit would be an ideal place to hide in. Fugitives had the right of asylum on this sacred mountain. The reference to the SERPENT reminds us of the Babylonian myth in wh...
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....
SERPENT. — On this expression, _i.e.,_ the “waterserpent,” comp. Isaiah 27:1....
וְ אִם ־יֵחָֽבְאוּ֙ בְּ רֹ֣אשׁ הַ כַּרְמֶ֔ל
2. NEMESIS Amos 9:1 There follows a Vision in Bethel, the opening of which, "I saw the Lord," immediately recalls the great inauguration of Isaiah. He also "saw the Lord"; but how different the Attit...
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...
And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the (c) serpent, and...
_Top, in woods, or caverns. --- Serpent. Fishes and sea monsters are so called._...
"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...
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...
Now as to what he says, _I will command the serpent to bite them, _some understand by נחש, _nuchesh, _not a serpent on hand, but the whale, or some other marine animal, as the leviathan, which is ment...
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...
AND THOUGH THEY HIDE THEMSELVES IN THE TOP OF CARMEL,.... One of the highest mountains in the land of Israel; in the woods upon it, and caves in it: I WILL SEARCH AND TAKE THEM OUT FROM THENCE: by di...
And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he s...
_Though they dig into hell_, &c. Here the subject is enlarged upon to impress it more deeply on the minds of all that read or hear it. Though they hide themselves in the deepest holes or caverns of th...
THE WICKED KINGDOM OVERTHROWN...
and though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, whose wooded heights were at the extreme western boundary of their kingdom, I WILL SEARCH AND TAKE THEM OUT THENCE; AND THOUGH THEY BE HID FROM MY...
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,...
THOUGH THEY HIDE THEMSELVES IN THE TOP OF CARMEL; one high woody mountain, shelter and hiding-place for wild beasts, by a figure put for all the rest; if they think to be safe where wild beasts find a...
Amos 9:3 hide H2244 (H8735) top H7218 Carmel H3760 search H2664 (H8762) take H3947 (H8804) hide...
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...
YHWH'S JUDGMENT AGAINST ISRAEL AND THEIR FALSE ALTAR IS CERTAIN AND SURE (AMOS 9:1). There is an interesting and possibly significant comparison between Amos 9:1 here and 1 Kings 13:1 (possibly as kno...
Amos 9:2 What a variety, what a reduplication of expression in order to represent as utterly impossible that the parties who are here threatened could escape the vengeance of their God! It matters no...
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...
_Though they dig into hell, thence shall Mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down._ THE DANGER OF IMPENITENCE In this passage God manifests His determination...
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
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 9:2 Two groups of opposites: SHEOL (the underworld) vs. HEAVEN; and CARMEL (the mountaintop) vs. THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA. In short, there
CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos sees God STANDING, fixed in purpose, by the altar. POSTS] Thresholds (Isaiah 6:4). CUT] Human victims demanded; wounded with fragments of broken columns (cf. Psalms 68:21; Habakk...
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...
Isaiah 27:1; Jeremiah 16:16; Jeremiah 23:23; Jeremiah 23:24; Job 34:
The serpent — The crocodile or shark....