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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

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Amos 9:8

"Behold the eyes of the Lord Jehovah are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth."This verse is not a promise that God will destroy "the house of Jacob," nor a promise that God will annihilate the total posterity of Abraham; but it is a promise to wipe "the sinful kingdom" off the face of the planet. Which sinful kingdom? Every sinful kingdom, especially the northern kingdom and the southern kingdom of Israel. The ultimate application of this to the whole... 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

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Amos 9:8

8. eyes . . . upon the sinful kingdom—that is, I am watching all its sinful course in order to punish it (compare Amos 9:4; Psalms 34:15; Psalms 34:16). not utterly destroy the house of Jacob—Though as a "kingdom" the nation is now utterly to perish, a remnant is to be spared for "Jacob," their forefather's sake (compare Psalms 34:16- :); to fulfil the covenant whereby "the seed of Israel" is hereafter to be "a nation for ever" (Psalms 34:16- :). 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

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Amos 9:8

As the sovereign Lord looked over all the kingdoms of the earth, He noticed those of them that were sinful and determined to destroy them because of their wickedness. He would do to Israel what He would do to any other sinful nation (cf. Amos 3:1-2). Yet He promised not to destroy completely the house of Jacob (the Northern Kingdom, because of the covenant He had made with Israel; cf. Amos 5:4-6; Amos 5:14-15). 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 9:7

(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

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Amos 9:7

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Amos 9:8

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

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

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Amos 9:8

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

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

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Amos 9:8

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

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Amos 9:7

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