Amos 9:1

I saw Adonoi standing by the mizbe'ach; and He said: 1 Strike the pillar capitals, + 9:1 of the heathen shrine that the thresholds may shake; 1 and smash them upon the heads of all; 1 and I will slay the last of them with the cherev; 1 he that fleeth of them shall not get away, 1 and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2Though they dig down to Sheol, 1 thence shall Mine hand take them; 1 though they climb up to Shomayim, 1 thence will I bring them down; 1

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 18:18Again he said, Therefore hear the Devar Hashem: I saw Hashem sitting upon His Kisse, and all Tzva HaShomayim standing on his right and on his left.

Isaiah 6:1In the year that the Melech Uziyah died, I saw Adonoi sitting upon a kisse, high and lifted up, and His robe filled the Heikhal.

Isaiah 6:4And the doorposts shook at the voice of him that cried, and the Beis + 6:4 Hamikdash was filled with smoke.

Isaiah 30:16But ye said, No; 1 for we will flee upon sus; 1 therefore shall ye flee; 1 and, We will ride off upon the swift; 1 therefore shall they that pursue you be swift. 1

Ezekiel 1:28As the appearance of the keshet (rainbow) that is in the anan in yom hageshem, so was the appearance of the radiance all around. This was the appearance of the demut Kavod Hashem. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.

Ezekiel 10:4Then the Kavod Hashem went up from the Keruv, and stood over the threshold of the Beis; and the Beis was filled with the anan (cloud), and the khatzer (courtyard) was full of the radiance of the Kavod Hashem.

Matthew Henry on Amos 9:1

In this chapter we have, I. Judgment threatened, which the sinners shall not escape ( ver. 1-4 ), which an almighty power shall inflict ( ver. 5, 6 ), which the people of Israel have deserved as a sinful people ( ver. 7, 8 ); and yet it shall not be the utter ruin of their nation ( ver. 8 ), for a remnant of good people shall escape, ver. 9 . But the wicked ones shall perish, ver. 10 . II. Mercy promised, which was to be bestowed in the latter days ( ver. 11-15 ), as appears by the application of it to the days of… Read the whole commentary →

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