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Amos 7:9

The Pulpit Commentary on Amos 7:9

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

The high places of Issac. The shrines of idolatry all over the land. The bamoth are the altars erected on high places and now dedicated to idols (; ; ; ).

Isaac here and in is used as a synonym for Israel, perhaps with some ides of contrasting the deeds of the people with the blameless life of the patriarch and his gentle piety (Pusey). Septuagint, βωμοὶ τοῦ γέλωτος, with reference to the meaning of the name Issac, "altars of derision," whence Jerome's version, excelsa idoli.

The sanctuaries of Israel. The idol temples at Dan and Bethel (), at Gilgal (), and perhaps in other places, which had been sanctified by ancient patriarchal worship. Septuagint, αἱ τελεεταὶ τοῦ ̓ισραήλ, "the rites of Israel;" Vulgate, sanctificationes Israel.

With the sword. God is represented as standing like an armed warrior taking vengeance on the guilty family. Jeroboam II. had roved Israel from Syria, and was popular owing to his success in war (); but his dynasty was overthrown, and this overthrow was the destruction of the Israelitish monarchy.

The murder of his son Zachariah by Shallum () led to those disastrous commotions which culminated in the conquest of Samaria by the Assyrians and the deportattion of the people.

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