Amos 9:1-5
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Verse 1
What is the Lord telling Amos to cut here, and what might this mean?
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Verse 2
Climbing to heaven is a familiar image, but what about digging to hell? Where does this come from?
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Exegesis
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Verse 1: That the posts may shake
A connection between door posts and speaking is made here and in Isa 6:4 where the moving posts are also evidence of the Lord's presence. Here the Lord tells Amos to smite the lintel (top) of the door wheras in Isa 6:4 "the posts of the door moved at the voice of [a seraph] that cried." The movement of these posts might be taken as a "parting of the veil" in which case the shaking of the posts here, in contrast to the more subdued term move in Isa 6:4, may suggest God's wrath. (Cf. shake in Isa 13:13, 14:16, and 24:18.)
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