Chapter 9

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I saw 2Chr 18:18; Isa 6:1; Ezek 1:28; John 1:18, John 1:32; Acts 26:13; Rev 1:17

upon Amos 3:14; Ezek 9:2, Ezek 10:4

Smite Isa 6:3-4; Zech 11:1-2

lintel or, chapiter, or knop

cut them or, wound them, in the head. Ps 68:21; Hab 3:13

shall not flee Amos 2:14-15; Isa 24:17-18, Isa 30:16; Jer 48:44


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Though All these energetic expressions were intended to shew the utter impossibility of escape.

dig Job 26:6; Ps 139:7-10; Isa 2:19

climb Job 20:6; Isa 14:13-16; Jer 49:16, Jer 51:53; Ezek 28:13-16; Obad 1:4; Luke 10:18


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hide Job 34:22; Jer 23:23-24

hid Ps 139:9-11; Jer 16:16

the serpent Isa 27:1


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go Lev 26:33, Lev 26:36-39; Deut 28:64-65; Ezek 5:2, Ezek 5:12; Zech 13:8-9

set Lev 17:10; Deut 28:63; 2Chr 16:9; Ps 34:15-16; Jer 24:6, Jer 44:11


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toucheth Ps 46:6, Ps 144:5; Isa 64:1; Mic 1:3; Nah 1:6; Hab 3:10; Rev 20:11

and all Amos 8:8; Jer 12:4; Hos 4:3

shall rise Ps 32:6, Ps 93:3-4; Isa 8:7-8; Matt 7:27


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buildeth Ps 104:3, Ps 104:13

stories or, spheres, Heb. ascensions, Maaloth "upper chambers," which in eastern houses are the principal apartments. Perhaps there is a reference here to the various systems which God has created in illimitable space, transcending each other as the planets do in our system.

troop or, bundle, Gen 2:1 Aguddah probably is the same as the Arabic ijad "an arch, vault," and may here denote the vault of heaven, or atmosphere, which God "hath founded, or established, upon, or over, al the earth," and into which "he calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth."

calleth Amos 5:8; Gen 7:11-19; Jer 5:22

The Lord Amos 4:13; Exod 3:14-15


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ye not Jer 9:25-26, Jer 13:23

Have not Amos 2:10; Exod 12:51; Hos 12:13

the Philistines Deut 2:23; Jer 47:4

the Syrians Amos 1:5; 2Kgs 16:9


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the eyes Amos 9:4; Ps 11:4-6; Prov 5:21, Prov 15:3; Jer 44:27

and I Gen 6:7, Gen 7:4; Deut 6:15; 1Kgs 13:34; Hos 1:6, Hos 9:11-17, Hos 13:15-16

saving Deut 4:31; Isa 27:7-8; Jer 5:10, Jer 30:11, Jer 31:35-36, Jer 33:24-26; Joel 2:32; Obad 1:16-17; Rom 11:1-7, Rom 11:28-29


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and I Lev 26:33; Deut 28:64

sift Heb. cause to move

grain Heb. stone


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the sinners Isa 33:14; Ezek 20:38, Ezek 34:16-17; Zeph 3:11-13; Zech 13:8-9; Mal 3:2-5; Mal 4:1; Matt 3:10-12, Matt 13:41-42, Matt 13:49-50

The evil Amos 6:1, Amos 6:3; Ps 10:11; Eccl 8:11; Isa 5:19, Isa 28:14-15, Isa 56:12; Jer 18:18; Mal 3:15


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that day Acts 15:15-17

raise Isa 9:6-7, Isa 11:1-10; Jer 23:5-6, Jer 30:9, Jer 33:14-16, Jer 33:20-26; Ezek 17:24; Ezek 34:23-24, Ezek 37:24-25; Hos 3:5; Mic 5:2; Luke 1:31-33, Luke 1:69-70; Acts 2:30-36

the tabernacle Isa 16:5; Ezek 21:25-27

close Heb. hedge, or wall, Job 1:10; Ps 80:12, Ps 89:40; Isa 5:5

as in Ps 143:5; Isa 63:11; Jer 46:26; Lam 5:21; Ezek 36:11; Mic 7:14


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possess Isa 11:14, Isa 14:1-2; Joel 3:8; Obad 1:18-21

Edom Gen 27:29, Gen 27:37; Num 24:17; Ps 60:8; Mal 1:4

which are called by my name Heb. upon whom my name is called, Isa 43:7, Isa 63:19, Isa 65:1; Jer 14:9, Jer 15:16; Dan 9:18-19


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plowman Lev 26:5; Ezek 36:35; Hos 2:21-23; John 4:35

soweth Heb. draweth forth

the mountains Isa 35:1-2, Isa 55:13; Joel 3:18, Joel 3:20

sweet wine or, new wine

the hills Amos 9:5; Judg 5:5; Ps 97:5


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I will bring Ps 53:6; Jer 30:3, Jer 30:18, Jer 31:23; Ezek 16:53, Ezek 39:25; Joel 3:1-2

build Isa 61:4, Isa 65:21; Jer 30:18, Jer 31:38-40; Ezek 36:33-36, Ezek 37:25-28

plant Amos 5:11; Isa 62:8-9; Ezek 28:26; Zeph 1:13


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they shall As the Jews, after their return from Babylon, were driven from their land by the Romans, this can only refer to their future conversion and restoration, and to the security and peace of the church. Isa 60:21; Jer 24:6, Jer 32:41; Ezek 34:28, Ezek 37:25; Joel 3:20; Mic 4:4


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