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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 9:13

Amos 9:13. Behold the days come Here we have another promise, literally to be understood of the abundant plenty which God would bestow on the returned captives, and mystically of the abundant grace given and blessings conferred in gospel days. That the ploughman shall overtake the reaper He who breaks up the ground, and prepares it for the seed, shall be ready to tread on the heels of the reaper; who shall have a harvest so large, that before he can gather it all in, it shall be time to... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Amos 9:11-15

9:11-15 HOPE FOR THE FUTUREBeyond judgment Amos sees God’s forgiveness. Captivity in a foreign land will bring to an end the old division between the northern state of Israel and the southern state of Judah. God will bring the reunited people back into their land, where they will live in security and prosperity under the rule of the restored Davidic dynasty. Israel’s rule will extend over other nations, here represented by Edom (11-12). The land will become so productive that grain will grow... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Amos 9:13

the plowman , &c. This shows that the fulfilment of this prophecy is yet in abeyance, for these temporal blessings were postponed on the rejection of the call to repentance in Acts 3:18-26 . Compare Act 28:25-58 . Note the reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:5 ). App-92 . the mountains , &c. Compare Joel 3:18 . sweet wine = new wine. Hebrew. asis See App-27 . melt : i.e. dissolve into wine and oil. Figure of speech Hyperbole ( App-6 ), for emphasis. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Amos 9:13

"Behold the days come, saith Jehovah, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed: and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt."This language, couched in materialistic metaphor is nevertheless descriptive of the "spiritual blessings" to be realized upon the earth through the ultimate coming of the Messiah and the prosperity of his kingdom, the church, upon earth. Hyperbole is also employed, the very idea of the mountain... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Amos 9:13

Amos 9:13. Behold, the days come, &c.— In the note on Neh 4:7 we have observed, that the Arabs frequently robbed the countryman of his seed-corn. They treat the fruit-trees after the same manner, and oblige the inhabitants of those countries to gather the fruits before they are ripe, when they apprehend any danger from these mischievous neighbours. Maillet, speaking of the province of Fioume, says, "It is surrounded with Arabs, who frequently make incursions into it, especially in the... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Amos 9:13

13. the days come—at the future restoration of the Jews to their own land. ploughman shall overtake . . . reaper . . . treader of grapes him that soweth—fulfilling :-. Such shall be the abundance that the harvest and vintage can hardly be gathered before the time for preparing for the next crop shall come. Instead of the greater part of the year being spent in war, the whole shall be spent in sowing and reaping the fruits of earth. Compare :-, as to the same period. soweth seed—literally,... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Amos 9:13

In contrast to the images of judgment that Amos had painted throughout this book, days were coming when these terrible conditions would be reversed. The land would become so productive that farmers planting seed for the next harvest would push reapers of the same fields to finish their work so they could plant the next crop. Normally the Israelites plowed their fields in October and the reaping ended in May, but in the future reaping would still be going on in October because of the huge... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Amos 9:13-15

The blessings of the restored kingdom 9:13-15 read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 9:1-15

The Concluding Vision and a Discourse. Comfortable Words1. The vision. 2-10. The discourse, declaring that none shall evade God’s judgments (Amos 9:2-6); that Israel stands in no peculiar relationship to Jehovah (Amos 9:7); that all the sinners amongst them shall perish (Amos 9:8-10). 11-15. Comfortable words, predicting the restoration of the Davidic kingdom in all its former extent (Amos 9:11-12); the exuberant fertility of the land (Amos 9:13); the complete and final establishment of the... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Amos 9:13

(13) Shall overtake the reaper.—So rapidly will the harvest follow the ploughing. These closing verses foreshadow the glories of the restored kingdom of David (comp. Hosea 3:5), wherein we see the germ of the great Messianic prophecies of Isaiah. read more