What does Amos 8:14 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The mannerb of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again."
Verse Amos 8:14. _BY THE SIN OF SAMARIA_] _Baal_, who was worshipped here. _THY GOD, O DAN_] The golden calf, or ox, the representative of the Egyptian god Apis, or Osiris. _THE MANNER OF BEER-SHEBA...
WHO SWEAR - Literally, “the swearing,” they who habitually swear. He assigns, at the end, the ground of all this misery, the forsaking of God. God had commanded that all appeals by oath should be made...
CHAPTER 8 The Fourth Vision: The Basket With Summer Fruit _ 1. The vision (Amos 8:1) _ 2. Israel ripe for judgment (Amos 8:4) 3. The coming days of famine (Amos 8:11) Amos 8:1. In his fourth visi...
DEVELOPMENT OF THE THEME OF AMOS 3. This section, which re-echoes Amos 2:6, has been regarded as a conglomeration of rather loosely-connected fragments (_cf._ G. A. Smith). The prophet addresses himse...
SIN.. guilt., trespass. Hebrew asham. App-44. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for the idol itself. DAN... BEER-SHEBA. The two places where the calves were set up (1 Kings 12:26)...
A fresh denunciation of Israel's sin, followed by a fresh picture of the impending calamities....
_A FAMINE FOR THE WORD OF GOD -- AMOS 8:11-14:_ God promised a horrible famine in the land. It would not be a shortage of food and water. The people would be hungry and thirsty to hear the word of God...
THEY THAT SWEAR BY THE SIN OF SAMARIA— The calf set up at Beth-el by Jeroboam. Instead of, _The manner of Beer-sheba,_ Houbigant reads very properly, _Thy god, O Beer-sheba!_ Compare chap. Amos 5:5....
DESCRIPTION OF JUDGMENTS PROPHESIEDSPIRITUAL FAMINE TEXT: Amos 8:11-14 11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord Jehovah, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst f...
They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again. THEY THAT SWEAR BY THE SIN OF SAMARIA -...
8:14 sin (d-6) Elsewhere also 'trespass.'...
THE VISION OF THE RIPE FRUIT, FOLLOWED BY A FIFTH ADDRESS 1-3. The vision. 4-14. The address, denouncing dishonest traders (Amos 8:4), threatening earthquakes, eclipse, mourning, a painful sense of...
THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 8 A PICTURE OF A BASKET OF FRUIT V1 This is what the *Lord the Ruler showed me: I saw a basket of ripe fruit. V2 The *L...
THY GOD, O DAN, LIVETH. — Translate, _By the life of thy God, O Dan, and by the life of the way of Beersheba._ On such forms of oath, see Note on Amos 6:8. The “way of Beersheba” was the ritual practi...
הַ נִּשְׁבָּעִים֙ בְּ אַשְׁמַ֣ת שֹֽׁמְרֹ֔ון וְ אָמְר֗וּ חֵ֤י אֱלֹהֶ֨יךָ֙ דָּ֔ן וְ חֵ֖י דֶּ֣רֶךְ בְּאֵֽר...
1. EARTHQUAKE, ECLIPSE, AND FAMINE Amos 8:4 "Hear this, ye who trample the needy, and would put an end to the lowly of the land, saying, When will the New-Moon be over, that we may sell grain, and th...
THE WORST FAMINE OF ALL Amos 8:1-14 What is more fragile than summer fruit! So beautiful, so refreshing, yet so readily corrupted and diseased. To Amos it was an emblem of the rapidity with which di...
The next vision, that of the basket of summer fruit, indicated the im minence of the judgment. Jehovah declared that the end was come, that He would not pass by them any more. This announcement was f...
They that swear by the sin (i) of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, (k) The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again. (i) For the idolaters used to swear...
_Sin. Septuagint, "propitiation," which the pagans deemed requisite; (Horace, i. ode 2.) or worship (Haydock) of Baal, (4 Kings xvii. 16.; Calmet) and all the other superstitions. (Haydock) --- Way. S...
What an awful sound is here! And how dreadfully awful in that land, that parish, that people, that family, or person, in whom it is fulfilled. A famine of bread the common staff of life is distressing...
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. "The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the...
He afterwards mentions the reason why the Lord would inflict such punishments on his people; it was, because they had prostituted themselves to wicked superstitions; _They swear, _he says, _by the sin...
Chapter 8 renews the declaration, that the end of Israel was come on account of their iniquity. God would no longer pass it over. The prophet announces likewise the distress the people should come int...
THEY THAT SWEAR BY THE SIN OF SAMARIA,.... The calf at Bethel, which was near Samaria, and which the Samaritans worshipped; and was set up by their kings, and the worship of it encouraged by their exa...
They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again. Ver. 14. _They that swear by the sin of Sam...
_They that swear by the sin of Samaria_ That is, by the calf which Jeroboam set up as an object of _worship_ at Beth-el, not far from Samaria, committing a great sin in so doing, and making Israel to...
A LAST ADMONITION OF THE LORD...
11-14 Here was a token of God's highest displeasure. At any time, and most in a time of trouble, a famine of the word of God is the heaviest judgment. To many this is no affliction, yet some will feel...
THEY THAT SWEAR BY; who now do, as formerly they have done, trust in, sacrifice to, and swear by; who are obstinate idolaters, and trust to those lies. THE SIN, that which was the sin, the occasion of...
Amos 8:14 swear H7650 (H8737) sin H819 Samaria H8111 say H559 (H8804) god H430 lives H2416 Dan H1835 way H1870 Beersheba H884 lives H2416 fall H5307 (H8804) rise H6965 (H8799) swear - Hosea 4:15;...
THE FOURTH VISION - THE VISION OF THE BASKET OF SUMMER FRUIT INDICATING THAT ISRAEL WERE ABOUT TO BE HARVESTED (AMOS 8:1). In his fourth vision Amos was shown a basket of summer fruit (e.g. figs and p...
CONTENTS: The basket of summer fruit foretelling Israel's near ruin. Summary of the case against Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Amos. CONCLUSION: The time of God's patience draws surely to a conclusion, a...
Amos 8:1. _A basket of summer fruit._ The Lord would not wait till the vintage; he would cause their sun, as a nation, to set at noon, and rise no more. Amos 8:5. _That we may sell corn making the ep...
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_HOMILETICS_ CRITICAL NOTES.] AMOS 8:11. FAMINE] The light and comfort of God’s word shall fail; they despise now what they shall look for in vain then. AMOS 8:12. WANDER] Lit. reel, like drunken m...
EXPOSITION AMOS 8:1 § 5. _In the fourth vision, the basket of summer fruit, the Lord shows that the people is ripe for judgment. _Explaining this revelation, Amos denounces the oppression and greed...
Now in chapter 8: Thus hath the Lord GOD showed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit (Amos 8:1). So now another vision, and in this vision he sees this summer fruit, apricots and peaches, pl...
1 Kings 12:28; 1 Kings 12:29; 1 Kings 12:32; 1 Kings 13:22; 1 Kings 14:16; 1 Kings 16:24; 2 Chronicles 36:16; 2 Kings 10:29; Acts 18:25;...
They — Who sacrifice to and swear by the calves at Dan and Beth — el. By the sin — Who say the idol at Dan is the true and living God. The manner — The idol which is worshipped at Beersheba....
Does this contradict the Bible’s teaching on the resurrection? (See comments on Job 7:9)...