Amos 9

The Destruction of Israel

¹I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said:

“Strike the tops of the pillars

so that the thresholds shake.

Topple them on the heads of all the people,

and I will kill the rest with the sword.

None of those who flee will get away;

none of the fugitives will escape.

• AMOS 9:1[NOTE]BESIDE THE ALTAR. Most think this is the altar at Bethel.

²Though they dig down to Sheol,

from there My hand will take them;

and though they climb up to heaven,

from there I will pull them down.

³Though they hide themselves atop Carmel,

there I will track them and seize them;

and though they hide from Me at the bottom of the sea,

there I will command the serpent to bite them.

⁴Though they are driven by their enemies into captivity,

there I will command the sword to slay them.

I will fix My eyes upon them

for harm and not for good.”

⁵The Lord Yahweh of Hosts,

He who touches the earth and it melts,

and all its dwellers mourn—

all the land rises like the Nile,

then sinks like the river of Egypt—

⁶He builds His upper rooms in the heavens

and founds His vault upon the earth.

He summons the waters of the sea

and pours them over the face of the earth.

Yahweh is His name.

⁷“Are you not like the Cushites to Me,

O children of Israel?”

declares Yahweh.

“Did I not bring Israel

up from the land of Egypt,

the Philistines from Caphtor,

and the Arameans from Kir?

• AMOS 9:7[NOTE]LIKE THE CUSHITES. God moved other nations too. Israel's past did not make it untouchable.

⁸Surely the eyes of the Lord Yahweh

are on the sinful kingdom,

and I will destroy it from the face of the earth.

Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”

declares Yahweh.

⁹“For surely I will give the command,

and I will shake the house of Israel

among all the nations

as grain is sifted in a sieve;

but not a pebble will reach the ground.

¹⁰All the sinners among My people

will die by the sword—

all those who say,

‘Disaster will never draw near or confront us.’”

A Promise of Restoration// Acts 15:5–21

¹¹“In that day I will restore

the fallen tent of David.

I will repair its gaps, restore its ruins,

and rebuild it as in the days of old,

• AMOS 9:11[PROPHECY]I will raise up the tabernacle of David which has fallen down... I will bring back the captives of My people Israel → ACTS 15:16-17
• AMOS 9:11[ARCHAEOLOGY]A Qumran scroll, 4Q174, quotes Amos 9:11 and reads the fallen tent of David as the coming Branch of David, see The Fallen Tent at Qumran Field Notes page
• AMOS 9:11[QUOTED]Quoted in the New Testament → ACTS 15:16-17
• AMOS 9:11[NOTE]THE FALLEN TENT OF DAVID. David's royal house, fallen like a shack. See Rebuilding David's Fallen Tent and The Fallen Tent at Qumran.

¹²that they may possess the remnant of Edom

and all the nations that bear My name,”

declares Yahweh, who will do this.

¹³“Behold, the days are coming,”

declares Yahweh,

“when the plowman will overtake the reaper

and the treader of grapes, the sower of seed.

The mountains will drip with sweet wine,

with which all the hills will flow.

• AMOS 9:13[PROPHECY]God would bring Israel back and plant them in their land, never to be uprooted again → STILL TO COMEMEDIUM
• AMOS 9:13[NOTE]THE PLOWMAN WILL OVERTAKE THE REAPER. Harvests so big that the next planting starts before the reaping is done.

¹⁴I will restore My people Israel from captivity;

they will rebuild and inhabit the ruined cities.

They will plant vineyards and drink their wine;

they will make gardens and eat their fruit.

¹⁵I will firmly plant them in their own land,

never again to be uprooted

from the land that I have given them,”

says Yahweh your God.