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Amos 9:14 KJV
Amos · chapter 9 · 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.Amos 9:14 · King James Version
Amos 9:14 in context
12That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this.
13Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
14And 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.
15And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.
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Key words (Strong's)
- captivityshᵉbûwthexile, concretely, prisonersH7622 →
- vineyardskerema garden or vineyardH3754 →
- inhabityâshabproperly, to sit downH3427 →
- peopleʻama peopleH5971 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- citiesʻîyra city in the widest senseH5892 →
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To him to whom all the prophets bear witness this prophet, here in the close, bears his testimony, and speaks of that day, those days that shall come, in which God will do great things for his church, by the setting up of the kingdom of the Messiah, for the rejecting of which the rejection of the Jews was foretold in…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 11-15