Amos 9:11

On that day I will raise up the fallen house of David, I will wall up its gaps and raise up its ruins, I will rebuild it as it was long ago.

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In The King James Version

In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:

In Context

10All the sinners of my people, who deny that disaster will touch or befall them, will die by the sword.

12They will possess again the rest of Edom, and all the nations which once you ruled for me, says the Lord, who will do this.

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Cross References

Psalms 80:12Why have you torn down her fences, and left her to be plucked at by all who pass by,

Psalms 143:5I remember the days of old, and brood over all you have done, musing on all that your hands have wrought.

Matthew Henry on Amos 9:2-11

The Certainty of the Sinner's Doom. ( b. c. 784.) 1 I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. 2 Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down: 3 And though they hide themselves in the top of… Read the whole commentary →

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