Discovery BoxAmos 7:8-9 
Context7:8 The Lord said to me, “What do you see, Amos?” I said, “Tin.” The sovereign One then said,
“Look, I am about to place tin among my people Israel.
I will no longer overlook their sin. 1
7:9 Isaac’s centers of worship 2 will become desolate;
Israel’s holy places will be in ruins.
I will attack Jeroboam’s dynasty with the sword.” 3
Amos 7:17
Context7:17 “Therefore this is what the Lord says:
‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the streets 4
and your sons and daughters will die violently. 5
Your land will be given to others 6
and you will die in a foreign 7 land.
Israel will certainly be carried into exile 8 away from its land.’”
1 tn Heb “And I will no longer pass over him.”
2 tn Traditionally, “the high places” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “pagan shrines.”
3 tn Heb “And I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with a sword.”
4 tn Heb “in the city,” that is, “in public.”
5 tn Heb “will fall by the sword.”
6 tn Heb “will be divided up with a [surveyor’s] measuring line.”
7 tn Heb “[an] unclean”; or “[an] impure.” This fate would be especially humiliating for a priest, who was to distinguish between the ritually clean and unclean (see Lev 10:10).
