John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Amos 9:13
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord ,.... Or "are coming" F25 ימים באים "dies venientes", Montanus, Burkius. ; and which will commence upon the accomplishment of the above things, when the church of Christ is raised up and established, the Jews converted, and the Gentiles brought in: that the ploughman shall overtake the reaper ; or "meet the reaper" F26 נגש הורש בקוצר "et vel cum occurret arator messori", Vatablus, Drusius; "attingent arator messorem", Pagninus,... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Amos 9:11-15
To him to whom all the prophets bear witness this prophet, here in the close, bears his testimony, and speaks of that day, those days that shall come, in which God will do great things for his church, by the setting up of the kingdom of the Messiah, for the rejecting of which the rejection of the Jews was foretold in the Amos 9:1-10. The promise here is said to agree to the planting of the Christian church, and in that to be fulfilled, Acts 15:15-17. It is promised, I. That in the Messiah the... read more