Albert Barnes Commentary Amos 9:6

"[it is] he that buildeth his chambers in the heavens, and hath founded his vault upon the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth; Jehovah is his name." — Amos 9:6 (ASV)

He who builds His stories - The word commonly means “steps,” nor is there any reason to alter it.

We read of the third heavens (2 Corinthians 12:2) and the heavens of heavens (Deuteronomy 10:14; 1 Kings 8:27; Psalms 148:4)—that is, heavens to which this heaven is as earth. These are different ways of expressing the vast unseen space that God has created.

This space is divided, as we know, through the distance of the fixed stars, into countless portions, of which the lower, or further removed, are but “steps” to the presence of the Great King, where, above all heavens (Ephesians 4:10), Christ sits at the Right Hand of God.

It amounts to the same if we suppose the word means “upper chambers.” The metaphor would still signify heavens above our heavens.

And has founded His troop - (literally, band in the earth; probably, “founded His arch upon the earth,” that is, His visible heaven, which seems, like an arch, to span the earth).

The whole then describes “all things visible and invisible”; all of this our solar system, and all beyond it, the many gradations to the Throne of God.

“He daily ‘builds His stories in the heavens,’ when He raises up His saints from things below to heavenly places, presiding over them, ascending in them. In devout wayfarers too, whose conversation is in heaven (Philippians 3:20), He ascends, sublimely and mercifully indwelling their hearts. In those who have the fruition of Himself in those heavens, He ascends by the glory of beatitude and the loftiest contemplation, as He walks in those who walk, and rests in those who rest in Him.”

To this description of His power, Amos, as before (Amos 5:8), adds that signal instance of its exercise on the ungodly: the flood, the pattern and type of judgments which no sinner escapes. God then has the power to do this. Why should He not?