Matthew Poole and continuators on Amos 9:8

8 Behold the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom , and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth : saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob , saith the LORD n.

Consider things better, and argue more like men of Reason.

God of infinite purity and knowledge whose Nature hateth all sin, and whose Office 'tis to punish sinners, his eyes behold all the children of men, they run to and fro, as 2 Chron. 16.9.

Every sinful Kingdom, and on the Kingdom of the Ten Tribes as notoriously the sinning Kingdom, as Heb.

And I will ruin any such Kingdom for their sins, that it shall cease to be a Kingdom on earth.

And so would I do with the Kingdom of Israel, but that I have by Covenant with their Fathers engaged to be their God for ever, which promise I will keep to a remnant of their seed for ever.

The seed of Iacob which God will not utterly extirpate, though he do extirpate other Nations, Ier. 30.11.

This is added to confirm the gracious word concerning the remnant which shall be spared.