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Amos 7:5

Old Testament Minor Prophet ASV (1901)

What does Amos 7:5 say?

The American Standard Version records this verse as: “Then said I, O Lord Jehovah, cease, I beseech thee: how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.” Read the surrounding verses and the named sources below before drawing broader conclusions.

The verse

Then said I, O Lord Jehovah, cease, I beseech thee: how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.
Amos 7:5 — American Standard Version

Context — Amos 7

American Standard Version (1901) — public domain. Click any verse for its study page.
2And it came to pass that, when they made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord Jehovah, forgive, I beseech thee: how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.
3Jehovah repented concerning this: It shall not be, saith Jehovah.
4Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me: and, behold, the Lord Jehovah called to content by fire; and it devoured the great deep, and would have eaten up the land.
5Then said I, O Lord Jehovah, cease, I beseech thee: how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.
6Jehovah repented concerning this: this also shall not be, saith the Lord Jehovah.
7Thus he showed me: and, behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb-line, with a plumb-line in his hand.
8And Jehovah said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumb-line. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumb-line in the midst of my people Israel; I will not again pass by them any more;
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What do historical commentaries say?

John Gill's Exposition
John Gill (1697–1771) · Exposition of the Old and New Testament · 18th-century historical commentary
“Then said I, O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee, etc.] From destroying the land; suffer not this calamity to proceed any further; using the same argument as before: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he [is] small; (see Gill on “<300702>Amos 7:2”).”
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Barnes' Notes
Albert Barnes (1798–1870) · Notes on the Whole Bible · 19th-century historical commentary
“As our Lord repeated the same words in the Garden, so Amos interceded with God with words, all but one, the same, and with the same plea, that, if God did not help, Israel was indeed helpless. Yet a second time God spared Israel. To human sight, what so strange and unexpected, as that the Assyrian and his army, having utterly destroyed the kingdom of Damascus, and carried away its people, and having devoured, like fire, more than half of Israel, rolled back like an ebb-tide, swept away to ravage other countries, and spared the capital? And who, looking at the mere outside of things, would have thought that that tide of fire was rolled back, not by anything in that day, but by the prophet’s…”
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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Cross-reference reference work
“cease: Amo 7:2; Psa 85:4; Isa 10:25 for: Amo 7:2, Amo 7:3; Isa 1:9; Jer 30:19 Amos 7:6”
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