Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, by R.A. Torrey, [ca. 1880], at sacred-texts.com
Amos Chapter 9
Overview
Amo 9:1, The certainty of the desolation; Amo 9:11, The restoring of the tabernacle of David.
I saw: Ch2 18:18; Isa 6:1; Eze 1:28; Joh 1:18, Joh 1:32; Act 26:13; Rev 1:17
upon: Amo 3:14; Eze 9:2, Eze 10:4
Smite: Isa 6:3, Isa 6:4; Zac 11:1, Zac 11:2
lintel: or, chapiter, or knop
cut them: or, wound them, in the head. Psa 68:21; Hab 3:13
shall not flee: Amo 2:14, Amo 2:15; Isa 24:17, Isa 24:18, Isa 30:16; Jer 48:44
Though: All these energetic expressions were intended to shew the utter impossibility of escape.
dig: Job 26:6; Psa 139:7-10; Isa 2:19
climb: Job 20:6; Isa 14:13-16; Jer 49:16, Jer 51:53; Eze 28:13-16; Oba 1:4; Luk 10:18
hide: Job 34:22; Jer 23:23, Jer 23:24
hid: Psa 139:9-11; Jer 16:16
the serpent: Isa 27:1
go: Lev 26:33, Lev 26:36-39; Deu 28:64, Deu 28:65; Eze 5:2, Eze 5:12; Zac 13:8, Zac 13:9
set: Lev 17:10; Deu 28:63; Ch2 16:9; Psa 34:15, Psa 34:16; Jer 24:6, Jer 44:11
toucheth: Psa 46:6, Psa 144:5; Isa 64:1; Mic 1:3; Nah 1:6; Hab 3:10; Rev 20:11
and all: Amo 8:8; Jer 12:4; Hos 4:3
shall rise: Psa 32:6, Psa 93:3, Psa 93:4; Isa 8:7, Isa 8:8; Mat 7:27
buildeth: Psa 104:3, Psa 104:13
stories: or, spheres, Heb. ascensions, Maaloth "upper chambers," which in eastern houses are the principal apartments. Perhaps there is a reference here to the various systems which God has created in illimitable space, transcending each other as the planets do in our system.
troop: or, bundle, Gen 2:1 Aguddah probably is the same as the Arabic ijad "an arch, vault," and may here denote the vault of heaven, or atmosphere, which God "hath founded, or established, upon, or over, al the earth," and into which "he calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth."
calleth: Amo 5:8; Gen 7:11-19; Jer 5:22
The Lord: Amo 4:13; Exo 3:14, Exo 3:15
ye not: Jer 9:25, Jer 9:26, Jer 13:23
Have not: Amo 2:10; Exo 12:51; Hos 12:13
the Philistines: Deu 2:23; Jer 47:4
the Syrians: Amo 1:5; Kg2 16:9
the eyes: Amo 9:4; Psa 11:4-6; Pro 5:21, Pro 15:3; Jer 44:27
and I: Gen 6:7, Gen 7:4; Deu 6:15; Kg1 13:34; Hos 1:6, Hos 9:11-17, Hos 13:15, Hos 13:16
saving: Deu 4:31; Isa 27:7, Isa 27:8; Jer 5:10, Jer 30:11, Jer 31:35, Jer 31:36, Jer 33:24-26; Joe 2:32; Oba 1:16, Oba 1:17; Rom 11:1-7, Rom 11:28, Rom 11:29
sift: Heb. cause to move
grain: Heb. stone
the sinners: Isa 33:14; Eze 20:38, Eze 34:16, Eze 34:17; Zep 3:11-13; Zac 13:8, Zac 13:9; Mal 3:2-5; Mal 4:1; Mat 3:10-12, Mat 13:41, Mat 13:42, Mat 13:49, Mat 13:50
The evil: Amo 6:1, Amo 6:3; Psa 10:11; Ecc 8:11; Isa 5:19, Isa 28:14, Isa 28:15, Isa 56:12; Jer 18:18; Mal 3:15
that day: Act 15:15-17
raise: Isa 9:6, Isa 9:7, Isa 11:1-10; Jer 23:5, Jer 23:6, Jer 30:9, Jer 33:14-16, Jer 33:20-26; Eze 17:24; Eze 34:23, Eze 34:24, Eze 37:24, Eze 37:25; Hos 3:5; Mic 5:2; Luk 1:31-33, Luk 1:69, Luk 1:70; Act 2:30-36
the tabernacle: Isa 16:5; Eze 21:25-27
close: Heb. hedge, or wall, Job 1:10; Psa 80:12, Psa 89:40; Isa 5:5
as in: Psa 143:5; Isa 63:11; Jer 46:26; Lam 5:21; Eze 36:11; Mic 7:14
possess: Isa 11:14, Isa 14:1, Isa 14:2; Joe 3:8; Oba 1:18-21
Edom: Gen 27:29, Gen 27:37; Num 24:17; Psa 60:8; Mal 1:4
which are called by my name: Heb. upon whom my name is called, Isa 43:7, Isa 63:19, Isa 65:1; Jer 14:9, Jer 15:16; Dan 9:18, Dan 9:19
plowman: Lev 26:5; Eze 36:35; Hos 2:21-23; Joh 4:35
soweth: Heb. draweth forth
the mountains: Isa 35:1, Isa 35:2, Isa 55:13; Joe 3:18, Joe 3:20
sweet wine: or, new wine
the hills: Amo 9:5; Jdg 5:5; Psa 97:5
I will bring: Psa 53:6; Jer 30:3, Jer 30:18, Jer 31:23; Eze 16:53, Eze 39:25; Joe 3:1, Joe 3:2
build: Isa 61:4, Isa 65:21; Jer 30:18, Jer 31:38-40; Eze 36:33-36, Eze 37:25-28
plant: Amo 5:11; Isa 62:8, Isa 62:9; Eze 28:26; Zep 1:13
they shall: As the Jews, after their return from Babylon, were driven from their land by the Romans, this can only refer to their future conversion and restoration, and to the security and peace of the church. Isa 60:21; Jer 24:6, Jer 32:41; Eze 34:28, Eze 37:25; Joe 3:20; Mic 4:4