Amos 2:9

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Amos 2:9 tn Heb “I destroyed the Amorites from before them.” The translation takes מִפְּנֵי (mipp^eney) in the sense of “for the sake of.” See BDB 818 s.v. פָּנֻה II.6.a and H. W. Wolff, Joel and Amos (Hermeneia), 134. Another option is to take the phrase in a spatial sense, “I destroyed the Amorites, [clearing them out] from before them [i.e., Israel]” (cf. NIV, NRSV).
2. Amos 2:9 tn Heb “whose height was like the height of cedars.”
3. Amos 2:9 tn Heb “his fruit from above.”
4. Amos 2:9 tn Heb “and his roots from below.”