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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 9:7

Amos 9:7. Are ye not as the children of the Ethiopians, &c. The prophet, to take away from the Israelites their false confidence, that the Lord was too much interested in their preservation to permit their total ruin, says, that in consequence of their idolatry and other sins, they were no more esteemed by him than the Ethiopians, a barbarous and cruel race of people: as if he had said, You have rendered yourselves unworthy the name of my people; you have renounced, by your idolatry,... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Amos 9:1-10

No possibility of escape (9:1-10)In the final vision God causes a shrine to collapse on the heads of the worshippers. The picture is that of God’s judgment on the people of Israel because of their false religion (9:1). None will escape his judgment. No place is beyond his reach (2-4). He is the God of nature, the controller of the universe. He has the power to carry out his plans (5-6).Some Israelites might object that this could not happen to them, because they are God’s chosen people. He... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Amos 9:7

children = sons. saith the LORD [is] Jehovah's oracle. brought up Israel. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 13:3 , Exodus 13:9 , Exodus 13:14 , Exodus 13:16 ; Exodus 33:1 .Deuteronomy 5:15 ; Deuteronomy 6:21 , &c.) App-92 . Caphtor = Crete. Ref, to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 2:23 ). App-92 . Kir. Supposed to be Lower Mesopotamia. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Amos 9:7

"Are ye not as the children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith Jehovah. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?"Due to their gross and repeated rebellions against God, Israel had forfeited their status as "God's chosen people"; and here is revealed that God's providences for them had in no sense been heaped upon them without any concern for other nations. Israel seems to have been perpetually blind to... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Amos 9:7

Amos 9:7. Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians— Amos, to take away from the Israelites their false presumption, that the Lord was too much interested in their preservation to prevent their total ruin, says that, in consequence of their infidelity and revolt, God regards them no otherwise than as Ethiopians. "You have rendered yourselves unworthy the name of my people; you have renounced by your idolatry the privileges of that peculiar covenant which I entered into with your fathers; you... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Amos 9:7

7. unto me—however great ye seem to yourselves. Do not rely on past privileges, and on My having delivered you from Egypt, as if therefore I never would remove you from Canaan. I make no more account of you than of "the Ethiopian" (compare :-). "Have not I (who) brought you out of Egypt," done as much for other peoples? For instance, did I not bring "the Philistines (see on :-, c.) from Caphtor (compare Deuteronomy 2:23 see on Deuteronomy 2:23- :), where they had been bond-servants, and the... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Amos 9:7

Rhetorically Yahweh asked if Israel was not just like other nations. It was in the sense that it was only one nation among many in the world that lived under His sovereign authority. It was like them too in that it was full of idolaters. The Ethiopians (Cushites) were a remote people in Amos’ day, living on the edge of the earth from an ancient Near Easterner’s perspective, yet God watched over them. He had separated the Philistines from Caphtor (Crete; cf. Deuteronomy 2:23) and the Syrians... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Amos 9:7-10

The justice of His punishment 9:7-10 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 9:7

(7) Ethiopians.—Israel had presumed on the special favour of Jehovah. The prophet asks them whether, after all, they are better or safer than the Ethiopians, whom they despised. He who led Israel from Egypt also brought the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir. Caphtor is mentioned in the table of races, Genesis 10:14 (where the clause referring to the Philistines should probably be placed at the end of the verse). The LXX. followed by the Targums and Peshito interpret Caphtor as... read more