Discovery BoxAmos 7:9 
Context7:9 Isaac’s centers of worship 1 will become desolate;
Israel’s holy places will be in ruins.
I will attack Jeroboam’s dynasty with the sword.” 2
Amos 7:17
Context7:17 “Therefore this is what the Lord says:
‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the streets 3
and your sons and daughters will die violently. 4
Your land will be given to others 5
and you will die in a foreign 6 land.
Israel will certainly be carried into exile 7 away from its land.’”
1 tn Traditionally, “the high places” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “pagan shrines.”
2 tn Heb “And I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with a sword.”
3 tn Heb “in the city,” that is, “in public.”
4 tn Heb “will fall by the sword.”
5 tn Heb “will be divided up with a [surveyor’s] measuring line.”
6 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).
