Amos 7:7-9
Summary for Amos 7:7-9: 7:7-9 a This vision begins like the previous two (7:2-3 b, 4-6 c), but this time the Lord allows no intercession. The abrupt shift in outcome contributed to the power of Amos’s message.7:8 d The Hebrew word translated plumb line (Hebrew ’anak) is similar to the word for groaning (’anakhah, see Isa 35:10 e; Lam 1:22 f), alluding to great suffering when God would hold Israel accountable.
7:9 g pagan shrines ... temples: Every vestige of the apostate Israelite religion, from the common high places to the royal shrine at Bethel, would be destroyed.
• of your ancestors (literally of Isaac): Isaac stands for Israel’s ancestors, the fathers of the nation.
• dynasty of King Jeroboam: Jeroboam II died of natural causes (2 Kgs 14:29 h), but the murder of his son and successor, Zechariah, after a reign of less than a year (2 Kgs 15:8-10 i; see 2 Kgs 10:28-31 j), initiated instability in Israel’s government that it never overcame (2 Kgs 15:10-31 k).
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