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Vision of the Plumb Line

7 Thus He showed me: Behold, the Lord stood on a wall made with a plumb line, with a plumb line in His hand.
8 And the Lord said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said:
“Behold, aI am setting a plumb line
In the midst of My people Israel;
bI will not pass by them anymore. 
9 aThe1 high places of Isaac shall be desolate,
And the1 sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste.
bI will rise with the sword against the house of Jeroboam.”  

Amaziah’s Complaint

10 Then Amaziah the apriest of bBethel sent to cJeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to1 bear all his words.  
11 For thus Amos has said:
‘Jeroboam shall die by the sword,
And Israel shall surely be led away acaptive
From their own land.’ ”  
12 Then Amaziah said to Amos:
“Go, you seer!
Flee to the land of Judah.
There eat bread,
And there prophesy.
13 But anever again prophesy at Bethel,
bFor it is the king’s1 sanctuary,
And it is the royal1 residence.”  
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Amos 7:9

And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate - Their total destruction is at hand. The high place of Isaac was Beer-sheba, where Isaac had built an altar to the Lord, Genesis 26:25. This high place, which had been abused to idolatrous uses, was demolished by Josiah, king of Judah, as we read in II Kings 23:8, for he defiled all the high places from Geba to Beersheba.

I will rise against the house of Jeroboam - The Lord had promised to Jehu, the ancestor of Jeroboam, that his family should sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation. Zechariah, the son of Jeroboam, was the fourth in order after Jehu; and on him the threatening in this verse fell; for he was murdered by Shallum after he had reigned six months, and in him the family became extinct. See II Kings 10:30; II Kings 15:8-10.


 
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