Amos 8:2

And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more. THE END IS COME - (; ). I WILL NOT AGAIN PASS BY THEM ANYMORE. Amos resumes the thread of his discourse, interrupted by Amaziah, with the very same words (Amos 7:8), "I will not again pass by them anymore," etc....

Now follows the exposition of the vision, _Jehovah said to me, Come has the end on my people Israel _We perceive, then, the meaning of the Prophet to be, — that the people had hitherto been warned by moderate punishments; but that as they had become hardened, extreme vengeance was nigh at hand, when God would no longer perform the part of a father or of a physician, but would utterly destroy those whom he had long borne with. We indeed know that most grievous calamities had happened to the people of Israel, even before this time; but whenever God showed forbearance, he ever allured them to true penitence. Lest, then, they should promise such a treatment to themselves hereafter, and by self flatteries protract time, as hypocrites are wont to do, the Prophet declares here expressly, that the end had come; as though he said, “Your iniquity is ripe: now then gather the fruit; for ye cannot p...

1-3 Amos saw a basket of summer fruit gathered, and ready to be eaten; which signified, that the people were ripe for destruction, that the year of God's patience was drawing towards a conclusion. Such summer fruits will not keep till winter, but must be used at once. Yet these judgments shall not draw from them any acknowledgement, either of God's righteousness or their own unrighteousness. Sinners put off repentance from day to day, because they think the Lord thus delays his judgments....

Verse Amos 8:2. _A BASKET OF SUMMER FRUIT_] כלוב קיץ _kelub kayits; the_ _end is come _- בא הקץ ba hakkets: here is a paronomasia or play upon the words _kayits, summer fruit_, and _kets, the end_, both coming from similar roots. Ezekiel 7:2, where there is a similar play on the same word. _I WILL NOT AGAIN PASS BY THEM ANY MORE._] I will be no longer their Guardian....

THUS HATH THE LORD GOD SHOWED ME - The sentence of Amaziah pronounced, Amos resumes just where he left off, before Amaziah broke in upon him. His vehement interruption is like a stone cast into the deep waters. They close over it, and it leaves no trace. Amos had authenticated the third vision; “Thus hath the Lord God shewed me.” He resumes in the self-same calm words. The last vision declared that the end was certain; this, that it was at hand. A BASKET OF SUMMER FRUIT - The fruit was the latest harvest in Palestine. When it was gathered, the circle of husbandry was come to its close. The sight gives an idea of completeness. The symbol, and the word expressing it, coincide. The fruit-gathering קיץ _qayits_, like our “crop,” was called from “cutting.” So was the word, “end,” “cutting off,” in (קץ _qêts_). At harvest-time there is no mo

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 of the chieftains (verses 4-10), and warns them that those who despise the Word of God shall some day suffer from a famine of the Word (verses 11-14). AMOS 8:1 A BASKET OF SUMMER FRUIT; Septuagint, ἄγγος ἰξευτοῦ_, _"a fowler's vessel;" Vulgate, _uncinus pomorum, _which Jerome explains," Sicut uncino rami arborum detrahuntur ad poma carpenda, ita ego proximum captivitatis tempus attraxi." The word _chelub _is taken to mean "a basket of wickerwork;" it is used for "a cage" in...

AND HE SAID, AMOS, WHAT SEEST THOU?.... To quicken his attention, who might disregard it as a common thing; and in order to lead him into the design of it, and show him what it was an emblem of: AND I SAID, A BASKET OF SUMMER FRUIT; some render it "a hook" w, such as they pull down branches with to gather the fruit; and the word so signifies in the Arabic language x; but the other is the more received sense of the word: THEN SAID THE LORD UNTO ME; by way of explanation of the vision: the end is come upon my people Israel: the end of the kingdom of Israel; of their commonwealth and church state; of all their outward happiness and glory; their "summer [was] ended", and they "not saved", Jeremiah 8:20; all their prosperity was over; and, as the Targum, their "final punishment was come,'' the last destruction threatened them y:

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 vision the prophet beholds a basket of summer fruit. The Hebrew shows that it was a basket filled with ripe fruit. The ripe fruit is a symbol that Israel was ripe for the harvest of judgment. The message of the Lord to the prophet is, “The end is come upon My people Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.” The songs would be changed into howling lamentations and many should be slain....

THE VISION OF THE BASKET OF SUMMER FRUIT. The account of the visions is now resumed. This time the prophet sees a basket of summer fruit (Amos 8:1), and Yahweh explains (Amos 8:2) that the summer fruit (_kayiṣ?)_ symbolises the end (_kçṣ?)_ of the people of Israel. Thus we have a play upon words (as in Jeremiah 1:11 f.). In that day (Amos 8:3) the songs in the palace (_not_ temple) shall be turned into wailing. There shall be dead bodies everywhere, and these shall be cast away in silence without burial. This scene of the dead demands dead silence. 3. AND THE SONGS OF THE TEMPLE SHALL BE HOWLINGS: lit. and the songs of the palace shall wa

AMOS. See note on Amos 7:8. SUMMER FRUIT... THE END. Note the Figure of speech Paronomasia (App-6), for emphasis. Compare Jeremiah 1:11; Jeremiah 1:12. Hebrew. _kayitz hakketz,_ meaning that _ripe was_ the fruit; _ripe_ will be the time THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. IT. THE END. See note above. PASS BY. forgive, as in Amos 7:8....