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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Amo 9:6 — [It is] he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD [is] his name.
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buildeth
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Psa 104:3,13 |
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stories
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"or, spheres. Heb. ascensions. Mäâloth, ""upper chambers,"" which in eastern houses are the principal apartments. Perhaps there is a reference here to the various systems which God has created in illimitable space, transcending each other as the planets do in our system." |
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troop
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"or, bundle. Gen 2:1; {Aguddah} probably is the same as the Arabic {ijad,} ""an arch, vault,"" and may here denote the vault of heaven, or atmosphere, which God ""hath founded, or established, upon, or over, {âl,} the earth,"" and into which ""he calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth.""" |
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calleth
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Amo 5:8; Gen 7:11-19; Jer 5:22 |
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The LORD
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Amo 4:13; Exd 3:14,15 |
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Psa 104:3 |
Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind: |
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Psa 104:13 |
He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works. |
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Gen 2:1 |
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. |
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Amo 5:8 |
[Seek him] that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD [is] his name: |
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Gen 7:11 |
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. |
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Gen 7:12 |
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. |
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Gen 7:13 |
In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; |
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Gen 7:14 |
They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. |
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Gen 7:15 |
And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life. |
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Jer 5:22 |
Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand [for] the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it? |
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Amo 4:13 |
For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what [is] his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, [is] his name. |
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Exd 3:14 |
And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. |
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Exd 3:15 |
And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this [is] my name for ever, and this [is] my memorial unto all generations. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Amos 9:6," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Amo/9/6.html>.
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