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Amos 2:9 KJV
Amos · chapter 2 · verse 9
Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.Amos 2:9 · King James Version
Amos 2:9 in context
7That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:
8And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
9Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
10Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
11And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- destroyedshâmadto desolateH8045 →
- AmoriteʼĔmôrîyan Emorite, one of the Canaanitish tribesH567 →
- beforepânîymthe faceH6440 →
- heightgôbahhelation, grandeur, arroganceH1363 →
- cedarsʼereza cedar treeH730 →
- strongchâçônpowerfulH2634 →
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Here, I. God puts his people Israel in mind of the great things he has done for them, in putting them into possession of the land of Canaan, the greatest part of which these ten tribes now enjoyed, Amo 2:9, Amo 2:10.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 9-16