Amos 9 is the ninth (and the last) chapter of the

Book of Amos The Book of Amos is the third of the Twelve Minor Prophets in the Old Testament (Tanakh) and the second in the Greek Septuagint tradition. Amos, an older contemporary of Hosea and Isaiah, Harris, Stephen L., ''Understanding the Bible''. Palo Alt ...

in the

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'' Old Testament of the Christian

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. This book contains the prophecies attributed to the

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Amos Amos or AMOS may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Amos Records, an independent record label established in Los Angeles, California, in 1968 * Amos (band), an American Christian rock band * ''Amos'' (album), an album by Michael Ray * ''Amos' ...

; in particular, the

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, eighth, and ninth chapters contain visions and their explanations. It is a part of the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets.

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The original text was written in

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. This chapter is divided into 15 verses.

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Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in

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are of the

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tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis (895), the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets (916), and

Codex Leningradensis The Leningrad Codex ( la, Codex Leningradensis [Leningrad Book]; he, כתב יד לנינגרד) is the oldest complete manuscript of the Hebrew Bible in Hebrew, using the Masoretic Text and Tiberian vocalization. According to its colopho ...

(1008). Fragments containing parts of this chapter were found among the

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including 4Q82 (4QXII^g; 25 BCE) with extant verses 1, 5–6, 14–15;Dead sea scrolls – Amos
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(MurXII; 75–100 CE) with extant verses 1–15. There is also a translation into

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known as the

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, made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the

version include

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Codex Alexandrinus The Codex Alexandrinus (London, British Library, Royal MS 1. D. V-VIII), designated by the siglum A or 02 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), δ 4 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts), is a manu ...

(A;

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^A; 5th century) and

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Verse 9

: ''For, lo, I will command,'' :: ''and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations,'' : ''like as corn is sifted in a sieve,'' :: ''yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.'' * "Sift": The Israelites were to be tossed about through all nations as corn is shaken about in a sieve, in such a way, however, that while the chaff and dust (the wicked) fall through (perish), all the solid grains (the godly elect) remain (are preserved), (; ). So spiritual Israel's final safety is ensured (; ; ).Robert Jamieson, Andrew Robert Fausset; David Brown. '' Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown's Commentary On the Whole Bible''. 1871.

Verse 11

: he Lord says:''"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:"'' This verse is quoted by

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() (mostly from the Greek translation) to confirm that the Church of God is open to all people, Jews or Gentiles.Joseph S. Exell; Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones (Editors). The Pulpit Commentary. 23 volumes. First publication: 1890. * "The tabernacle": (Hebrew: ''sukkah'') or "hut", "tent" (as ); a "little house" (). * "Fallen...breaches...ruins" In the

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the Messiah (in Greek: "Christ") is called "the Son of the fallen." Amos heaps upon one another the words implying destruction, referring to the fall of David's kingdom into ruins by the Chaldeans, but the fallen "hut of David" will be "raised up", "'their (feminine form)' breaches" will be "closed up" (literally "walled up") and "'his' ruins," will be "built" up by God "that 'they' (masculine form; verse 12) may inherit". Using a variety of numbers and genders, this verse and the next one speak of one living whole, the 'Jewish Church', that once was "breached" in two by the great schism of Jeroboam, but will be reunited into one body, "as in the days of old", before the separation of the ten tribes, when all Israel worshiped as one. Barnes, Albert. Notes on the Old Testament. London, Blackie & Son, 1884. Reprint, Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1998. Interpreted spiritually, it foreshadows the rising of the universal Church of Christ from that of the Jews.

Verse 12

:''"that they may possess the remnant of Edom'' ::''and all the nations who are called by my name,"'' :''declares the Lord who does this.'' *"Edom" from ,

renders it as "mankind" (cf. Acts 15:17).

Verse 14

: ''And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel,'' :: ''and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them;'' : ''and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof;'' :: ''they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.'' KJV * "And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel": This does not refer to the captivity of the Jews in Babylon, or the disposition by the Romans, when the Jews were dispersed among the nations again; but the captivity both of Judah and Israel that the Jews will be brought back, and delivered from it, to return to their own land, and possess it as long as it is a land; see ; as well as be freed from the bondage of Satan and the law, under which they have been detained some hundreds of years; but now shall be delivered into the glorious liberty of the children of God.John Gill. John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible. Exposition of the Old and New Testament. Published in 1746–1763. * "build the waste cities": (; ).

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Verse 9

Verse 11

Verse 12

Verse 14

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