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AMOS CHAPTER 9
The certainty of Israel’s desolation, Amo_9:1-10. The restoring of the tabernacle of David, and of the captivity of Israel.
I saw: as before, Amo_7:1,4,7 8:1; so here the prophet hath a fifth vision.
The Lord; the great, glorious, just, and holy God, in some visible tokens of his majesty.
Standing; either ready to execute sentence, or ready to depart, Eze_9:3 10:1,4; indeed here he will do both, execute his own sentence, and depart from this people.
Upon the altar of burnt-offering before the temple at Jerusalem: here the scene is laid, this altar and temple Israel had forsaken, and set up others against it; and here God in his jealousy appears prepared to take vengeance: possibly it may intimate his future departure from Judah too. There Ezekiel, Eze_9:2, saw the slaughtermen stand.
He said, commanded,
Smite the lintel of the door, or the chapiter, knop, ornament that was upon the lintel of the door, which is supposed to be of the gate of the temple, or possibly the door of the gate that led into the priests’ courts; and though the party that smites be not named, it is likely it was an angel; or possibly the prophet seemed to do it, for this is to do in vision.
That the posts may shake; which were the strength and beauty of the gate.
And cut, wound deep,
them, the people which were visionally represented as standing in the court of the temple,
in the head, that it may more fully signify the destroying of the chief of the heads of this sinful people.
All; spare not one of these.
I will slay the last; God will slay by the enemies’ sword the meanest of them, or the last, i.e. the posterity of them.
He that fleeth of them shall not flee away, or get out of danger.
He that escapeth, for the present, out of battle or besieged city,
shall not be delivered; shall yet at last fall into the enemies’ hand, or by his sword.