Amos 9

Amos 9:2

Shall judge - Shall determine the controversy. Assemblies - Publick congregations.

Amos 9:4

Cleansed - After for seven days he hath kept from the dead. They - The priests, who are about the house of God, shall appoint seven days more to this defiled person for his cleansing before he is admitted into the sanctuary.

Amos 9:6

It - The sin - offering: but under this one, all other offerings are couched. For an inheritance - Instead of lands and cities.

Amos 9:8

And the first - So soon as the first - fruits are ripe in the field, your vineyards, and olive yards. Every oblation - Whether free - will offering, or prescribed. The first of your dough - ‘Tis conceived this was of every mass of dough they made, and of the first of the dough, which every year they first made of the new corn, as by the custom of the Jews at this day appears. That he - The priest may bless, and pray for thee.

Amos 9:12

Of this - Whole portion of twenty five thousand cubits long, or twelve miles and half, and ten thousand broad, or five miles and a little more. For the sanctuary - For a platform for the sanctuary, both house and court.

Amos 9:13

And in it - In the center of this.