“I saw Yahweh
Standing beside the altar.
He said.
‘Strike the capitals
Until the thresholds shake!
Shatter them
On the heads
Of all the people.
Those who are left,
I will kill
With the sword!
Not one of them
Shall flee away!
Not one of them
Shall escape.’”
The final vision of Amos was when he saw Yahweh standing beside the altar, presumably the altar at Bethel in Samaria. Yahweh said to Amos that he was going to strike the capitals or the tops of the columns so that the thresholds or the rest of the support systems would shake. In fact, they would all tumble and shatter on the heads of the people there. Anyone left over, Yahweh was going to kill with the sword. No one would get away or escape from this false temple at Bethel.