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Amos 5:8

Amos 5:8

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

[Seek him] that maketh the seven stars,.... Which some connect with the preceding words, without a supplement, "they leave righteousness on the ground, who maketh the seven stars"; understanding it of Christ, the Lord our righteousness, who is made unto us righteousness, whom the Jews rejected and despised, though the Maker of the heavens and the constellations in them.

Some continue, and supply the words thus, and remember not him "that maketh the seven stars", as Kimchi; or forget him, as Japhet in Aben Ezra. The Targum is,"they cease to fear him that maketh, &c.''they have no regard unto him, no awe and reverence of him, or they would not act so unjustly as they do.

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