Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Amos 8:8

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8. the land . . . rise up wholly as a flood —The land will, as it were, be wholly turned into a flooding river (a flood being the image of overwhelming calamity, :- ). cast out and drowned, &c.—swept away and overwhelmed, as the land adjoining the Nile is by it, when flooding ( Amos 9:5 ). The Nile rises generally twenty feet. The waters then "cast out" mire and dirt ( Isaiah 57:20 ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-9" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-amo-8-002

절 (explains)

bible-text/amo-8-8

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
• evidence_grade: T_theological