"In that day I will restore the fallen tent of David. I will repair its gaps, restore its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old, that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations that bear My name," declares the LORD, who will do this.
On that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples. The nations will seek Him, and His place of rest will be glorious.
Significance
Both oracles are eighth-century Davidic-restoration promises that route Gentile-inclusion through the raising of a fallen Davidic scion — the OT's two clearest texts that do so. Amos sees the dynasty as a collapsed sukkah ("the fallen tent of David," Amos 9:11) which the LORD will rebuild "in that day" (בַּיּוֹם הַהוּא) so that "all the nations that bear My name" belong to the restored house (9:12); Isaiah sees the dynasty as a felled tree whose "Root of Jesse" stands "on that day" (בַּיּוֹם הַהוּא) as a banner for the peoples, and "the nations will seek Him" (Isa 11:10). The structural correspondence is exact: a reduced, fallen Davidic entity (tent / stump) is raised, and Gentile-gathering follows as the consequence of that raising — not through Zion-pilgrimage, Servant-call, or Abrahamic seed (the other Gentile-inclusion routes), but uniquely through David. This is a shared trajectory rather than literary dependence: Amos does not cite Isaiah; two prophets independently voice one promise the canon later welds together — most strikingly at the seek-verb, where Isaiah's "the nations will seek (דרשׁ) Him" is the very reading the LXX of Amos 9:12 supplies ("that the remnant of mankind may seek the Lord"), the form James quotes at the Jerusalem Council (Acts 15:16-18) even as Paul cites Isa 11:10 in the same Gentile-mission argument (Rom 15:12). Hence Longitudinal Theme (the canon-wide Davidic-and-the-nations promise) carried by a Promise-Fulfillment structure (a stated future restoration awaiting its day), not typology — neither text is the antitype of the other; both are promise awaiting one fulfillment. The telos: the fallen tent and the felled stump confess that the kingdom we long for cannot raise itself; the nations are not conscripted but seek and find their glorious place of rest in the risen Root of Jesse — so the promise lands not merely as foreshadow but as the desirable Christ in whom Jew and Gentile together come home and rest.
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