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NASB | Amos 9:15 "I will also plant them on their land, And they will not again be rooted out from their land Which I have given them," Says the LORD your God. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Amos 9:15 "I will also plant them on their land, And they shall never again be uprooted from their land Which I have given them," Says the LORD your God. |
Bible Question: Amos 9:15 prophecies that Isreal shall not be uprooted again. But they were uprooted in 587BC. Explain, please. |
Bible Answer: The Cornerstone Biblical Commentary explains it like this: never again be uprooted. God’s forgiveness is complete and his restoration permanent. The future Israel in view has paid the price for covenant trespasses and is assured continual occupation of the land of covenant promise. Yet the subsequent history of Israel shows that the people were displaced from the land again and again by foreign invaders. Some commentators identify the ultimate fulfillment of Amos’s promises of God’s restoration of Israel with the promises fulfilled in the church as the “Israel of God”. Others view Amos’s salvation oracles as a later stage of development in an eschatology that culminates in the kingdom of the Messiah (distinct from the church or church age; cf. Matt 24; Rev 20). |