--- title: "Bullinger" description: "the Lord GOD. Hebrew Adonai Jehovah. App-4 . behold . . . lo. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6 . formed = was forming. grasshoppers = locusts. Comp" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/amos/7" --- **the Lord GOD.** Hebrew Adonai Jehovah. App-4 . **behold . . . lo.** Figure of speech *Asterismos.* App-6 . **formed** = was forming. **grasshoppers = locusts.** Compare [Nahum 3:17](../../../kjv/nahum/3/17) . **the king's mowings.** Exacted by the king from the People ([1 Kings 4:7](../../../kjv/1-kings/4/7) ; [1 Kings 18:1](../../../kjv/1-kings/18/1) ). These are the symbols of the *army* of [Amos 6:14](../../../kjv/amos/6/14) . **by whom shall Jacob arise?** Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6 . Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac and Vulgate, read "who shall raise up Jacob'? " **Jacob.** Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of the Subject), App-6 , for the whole nation **The LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 . **repented.** Figure of speech *Anthropopatheia.* App-6 Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 32:36](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/36) ). App-92 . Compare [Jonah 3:10](../../../kjv/jonah/3/10) . **called,** &c. = was calling for fire, to contend [with Israel]. **did eat up a part** . would have eaten up the land. **a part.** Hebrew. *hahelek,* with 'eth = the very portion [of the earth given to Israel). Compare [Micah 2:4](../../../kjv/micah/2/4) . **the LORD.** One of the 134 passages in which the *Sopherim* say they altered Jehovah of the primitive text to Adonai ( App-32 ). **made,** &c.: i. e [made perpendicular] by a plummet. **plumbline** = plummet. Occurs only here. **Amos.** Note this personal touch. **set,** &c. i.e. measure [the doings of Israel] with the plummet of righteousness **and judgment.** Compare [2 Kings 21:12](../../../kjv/2-kings/21/12) .[Isaiah 28:17](../../../kjv/isaiah/28/17) ; [Isaiah 34:11](../../../kjv/isaiah/34/11) .[Lamentations 2:8](../../../kjv/lamentations/2/8) , &c. **pass by them** = forgive them. **high places.** Used for idolatrous altars, &c. **Isaac . . . Israel.** Used only by Amos in this sense. Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Adjunct), App-6 , for the nation of Israel. Compare Pe. [Psalms 105:9](../../../kjv/psalms/105/9) , [Psalms 105:10](../../../kjv/psalms/105/10) . [Jeremiah 33:26](../../../kjv/jeremiah/33/26) , &c. **I will rise against,** &c. Fulfilled in [2 Kings 15:10](../../../kjv/2-kings/15/10) . Jeroboam. Compare [Hosea 1:4](../../../kjv/hosea/1/4) . **the priest.** The idolatrous priest. **Beth-el.** Compare [Amos 3:14](../../../kjv/amos/3/14) ; [Amos 4:4](../../../kjv/amos/4/4) ; [Amos 5:5](../../../kjv/amos/5/5) , [Amos 5:6](../../../kjv/amos/5/6) . **conspired** = formed a conspiracy; the calves being connected with Israel's state policy ([1 Kings 12:26-33](../../../kjv/1-kings/12/26-33) ). **in the midst, &c.** : i.e. openly. Compare [Amos 7:8](../../../kjv/amos/7/8) . **bear** = endure. **Jeroboam shall die,** &c. This charge was not true. Compare [Acts 17:6-7](../../../kjv/acts/17/6-7) ; [Acts 24:5](../../../kjv/acts/24/5) . Note what Amaziah omitted to repeat. **into. Judah.** Though belonging to Judah ([Amos 1:1](../../../kjv/amos/1/1) ) Amos was a prophet to Israel. **chapel** = sanctuary, court: or, palace. **a prophet's son.** Prophets were not hereditary as priests were. Compare [Hebrews 1:1](../../../kjv/hebrews/1/1) . **herdman.** See notes on [Amos 1:1](../../../kjv/amos/1/1) , **gatherer** = preparer. **took me: i.e., called me** Prophets were called by Jehovah; not born prophets, or made prophets by man. See notes on [1 Samuel 10:5](../../../kjv/1-samuel/10/5) .[Hebrews 1:1](../../../kjv/hebrews/1/1) . **as I followed,** &c. Compare [Psalms 78:70](../../../kjv/psalms/78/70) , [Psalms 78:71](../../../kjv/psalms/78/71) . **drop not,** the. Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 32:2](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/2) ). App-92 . Compare [Ezekiel 20:46](../../../kjv/ezekiel/20/46) ; [Ezekiel 20:21](../../../kjv/ezekiel/20/21) , [Ezekiel 20:2](../../../kjv/ezekiel/20/2) .[Micah 2:6](../../../kjv/micah/2/6) , margin **thus saith the LORD.** See note on [Amos 1:3](../../../kjv/amos/1/3) , **be an harlot** : i.e. become a victim to the lust of the invader. **land** = soil. 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