Verse Lens · Expanded explanation
Amos 9:13 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 13. 13Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
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Quick Meaning
This verse begins the closing abundance promise with plowman overtaking reaper, grape-treader overtaking sower, and mountains flowing with wine.
Read It With
- Amos 9:13-15
Read Amos 9:13 with 9:13-15. This verse begins the closing abundance promise with plowman overtaking reaper, grape-treader overtaking sower, and mountains flowing with wine. The complete unit establishes this movement: The book ends with the LORD restoring the people's fortunes through abundant land, rebuilt cities, ordinary cultivation, and secure planting; hope is communal gift after judgment, not an individual wealth formula or modern land warrant.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The conclusion answers ruined crops, houses, vineyards, cities, exile, and uprooting with a comprehensive but ethically bounded vision of restored life. Within that movement, this verse begins the closing abundance promise with plowman overtaking reaper, grape-treader overtaking sower, and mountains flowing with wine.
Follow the Context
- Plowman, reaper, grape-treader, and sower overlap in impossible abundance.
- Mountains and hills flow with produce.
- The people's captivity or fortunes are restored.
- Ruined cities are rebuilt and inhabited.
- Vineyards and gardens are planted and enjoyed.
- The LORD plants the people securely in the land he has given.
What This Verse Is Not Saying
The verse does not guarantee prosperity, harvest success, investment return, health, or a fulfillment date to individual believers.
What Remains True
Restoration is pictured as creation and labor yielding extraordinary communal abundance.
How It Can Shape Life
- Pursue food security without promising guaranteed wealth.
Teach It Back
Explain Amos 9:13's contribution to Amos 9:13-15: begins the closing abundance promise with plowman overtaking reaper, grape-treader overtaking sower, and mountains flowing with wine. Include what the surrounding verses add, the stated uncertainty, and what this verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Amos 9:13-15 — Restored Land, Rebuilt Cities, and Secure PlantingSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
The agricultural overlap is poetic hyperbole whose historical and eschatological horizons remain debated.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact reader-facing Scripture wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: Amos 9:13-15, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Amos
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording, morphology, clause relationships, wordplays, names, and the base text behind translation discussion.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Amos.xml, 9:13-15
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Amos with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level translation, syntax, textual, literary, historical, and uncertainty notes.
Exact location: NET Bible Amos PDF, printed pp. 1721-1722, translation and notes on 9:13-15
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