Amos 9:6 (KJV)

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It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven and hath founded his troop in the earth he that calleth for the waters of the sea and poureth them out upon the face of the earth The LORD is his name

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buildeth. Ps 104:3 Ps 104:13

troop. or, bundle. Ge 2:1

calleth. Am 5:8 Ge 7:11-19 Jer 5:22

The Lord. Am 4:13 Ex 3:14 Ex 3:15

stories. or, spheres. Heb. ascensions.{Mäâloth,} "upper chambers," which in eastern houses are the principal apartments. Perhaps there is a reference here to the various systems which God has created in illimitable space, transcending each other as the planets do in our system. {Aguddah} probably is the same as the Arabic {ijad,} "an arch, vault," and may here denote the vault of heaven, or atmosphere, which God "hath founded, or established, upon, or over, {âl,} the earth," and into which "he calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth."

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