Amos 9


Amos 9 is the ninth and last chapter of the Book of Amos in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. In the Hebrew Bible it is a part of the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets. This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet Amos; in particular, the seventh, eighth, and ninth chapters contain visions and their explanations.

Text

The original text was written in Hebrew. This chapter is divided into 15 verses of the Bible|verses]. Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis, the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets, and Codex Leningradensis.
Fragments containing parts of this chapter were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls including 4Q82 with extant verses 1, 5–6, 14–15; and Wadi Murabba'at with extant verses 1–15.
There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus, Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Marchalianus.

Contents and commentary

Commentator Jennifer Dimes notes a similarity between Amos 9:13-15, Hosea 14:4-8 and Joel 3:18 : in each case there are promises of restoration held out at the end of the words of each prophet.

Verse 9

  • "Sift": The Israelites were to be tossed about through all nations as corn is shaken about in a sieve, in such a way that while the chaff and dust fall through, all the solid grains remain,. So spiritual Israel's final safety is ensured.

Verse 11

This verse is quoted in the New Testament by James, brother of Jesus to confirm that the Church of God is open to all people, Jews or Gentiles.
  • "The tabernacle": or "hut", "tent" ; a "little house".
  • "Fallen...breaches...ruins" In the Talmud, the Messiah is called "the Son of the fallen." Amos heaps upon one another the words implying destruction, referring to the fall of David's kingdom into ruins by the Chaldeans, but the fallen "hut of David" will be "raised up", "'their ' breaches" will be "closed up" and "'his' ruins" will be "built" up by God "that 'they' may inherit". Using a variety of numbers and genders, this verse and the next one speak of one living whole, the 'Jewish Church', that once was "breached" in two by the great schism of Jeroboam, but will be reunited into one body, "as in the days of old", before the separation of the ten tribes, when all Israel worshiped as one. Interpreted spiritually, it foreshadows the rising of the universal Church of Christ from that of the Jews.

Verse 12

  • "Edom" from אֱדוֹם֙, Septuagint renders it as "mankind".

Verse 14

  • "And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel": This does not refer to the captivity of the Jews in Babylon, or the disposition by the Romans, when the Jews were dispersed among the nations again; but the captivity both of Judah and Israel that the Jews will be brought back, and delivered from it, to return to their own land, and possess it as long as it is a land; see ; as well as be freed from the bondage of Satan and the law, under which they have been detained some hundreds of years; but now shall be delivered into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
  • "build the waste cities":.

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