In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen, and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;
The type of blunder into which many scholars fall in the interpretation of this place is exemplified by this: "The tabernacle of David is the Davidic dynasty, and these words presuppose that it had come to an end; they must therefore have been written later than the fall of Jerusalem in 586 B.C."[26]  Such a view would, of course, remove the passage far from the days of Amos.  It should be perfectly obvious to any discerning student that there is no possible reference here to "David's dynasty."  That had not fallen when Amos wrote, but the "tabernacle" had fallen!