Amos 2:9

Amos 2:9

7 They¹ pant after the dust of the earth which is on the head of the poor,
And ^apervert the way of the humble.
^bA man and his father go in to the same girl,
^cTo defile My holy name.

8 They lie down ^aby every altar on clothes ^btaken in pledge,
And drink the wine of¹ the condemned in the house of their god.

9 “Yet it was I who destroyed the ^aAmorite before them,
Whose height was like the ^bheight of the cedars,
And he was as strong as the oaks;
Yet I ^cdestroyed his fruit above
And his roots beneath.

10 Also it was ^aI who brought you up from the land of Egypt,
And ^bled you forty years through the wilderness,
To possess the land of the Amorite.

11 I raised up some of your sons as ^aprophets,
And some of your young men as ^bNazirites.
Is it not so, O you children of Israel?”
Says the Lord.

12 “But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink,
And commanded the prophets ^asaying,
‘Do not prophesy!’

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Yet—My former benefits to you heighten your ingratitude.

the Amorite—the most powerful of all the Canaanite nations, and therefore put for them all (Genesis 15:16; Genesis 48:22; Deuteronomy 1:20; Joshua 7:7).

height . . . like . . . cedars— (Numbers 13:32-33).

destroyed his fruit . . . above . . . roots . . . beneath—that is, destroyed him utterly (Job 18:16; Ezekiel 17:9; Malachi 4:1).

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