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Verse Amos 8:11. _A FAMINE IN THE LAND_] The most grievous of all
famines, a famine of _the words of Jehovah_; a time in which no
prophet should appear, no spiritual counsellor, no faithful reprover,...
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NOT A FAMINE FOR BREAD - He does not deny that there should be bodily
famine too; but this, grievous as it is, would be less grievous than
the famine of which he speaks, “the famine of the word of the...
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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)...
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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...
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BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos,_ App-6.
OF HEARING, &c. Compare 1 Samuel 3:1; Psalms 74:9; Ezekiel 7:26,
WORDS, With _'eth. the_ very words. Some codices, with Aramaean,
Septuagint, Syriac, and
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A fresh denunciation of Israel's sin, followed by a fresh picture of
the impending calamities....
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_Behold_, DAYS ARE COMING] Amos 4:2.
_words_ Read probably (with many MSS., LXX. Vulg. Pesh.; cf. Amos
8:12) the sing, "word," the regular term for a particular
communication from Jehovah....
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Then, in the general distress, there will be an eagerness to hear that
word of Jehovah, which is now scorned and rejected: men will seek
everywhere throughout the land to find a prophet who will decla...
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_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...
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I WILL SEND A FAMINE— The prophet here foretels that it should come
to pass, that when they were suffering by famine they should inquire
for prophets from whom they might hear the word of God; but tha...
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DESCRIPTION OF JUDGMENTS PROPHESIEDSPIRITUAL FAMINE
TEXT: Amos 8:11-14
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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...
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Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine
in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of
hearing the words of the LORD:
I WILL SEND A FAMINE IN THE LA...
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THE WORD which they craved was not one of spiritual instruction, but
of guidance out of trouble: cp. 1 Samuel 3:1....
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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...
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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...
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The imagery is very vivid. The prophet threatens a famine of the word
of Jehovah, and a parching thirst for the Water of Life, now no longer
attainable. Such terrible destitution often supervenes on t...
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הִנֵּ֣ה ׀ יָמִ֣ים בָּאִ֗ים נְאֻם֙
אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה...
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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...
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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 dis...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_THE USES OF ADVERSITY_
‘Behold the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine
in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of
bearing the words of the Lord.’
Amos 8...
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Here now the Prophet fulminates, for he denounces not temporal
punishments, but final destruction, and what proves to be an evidence
of reprobation, and that is, that God would deprive the Israelites...
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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...
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BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME, SAITH THE LORD GOD,.... Which Kimchi interprets
of all the days of the second house or temple after Malachi, when
prophecy ceased; but it rather has respect to the time of
Shalm...
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Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine
in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of
hearing the words of the LORD:
Ver. 11. _Behold, the days come_...
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_Behold the days come, saith the Lord_ This is spoken of events which
were yet at some distance. _That I will send a famine in the land, not
of bread, &c., but of hearing the words of the Lord_ When A...
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Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine
in the land, not a famine of bread nor a thirst for water, but of
hearing the words of the Lord, causing men anxiously to search fo...
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A LAST ADMONITION OF THE LORD...
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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 fee...
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BEHOLD; note well what now I shall declare to you, and consider it.
THE DAYS COME, SAITH THE LORD GOD; surely, speedily, and according to
the threats of God. I WILL SEND A FAMINE IN THE LAND; by a sig...
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Amos 8:11 days H3117 coming H935 (H8802) says H5002 (H8803) Lord H136
GOD H3069 send H7971 ...
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THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE JUDGMENT (AMOS 8:8).
For these people there would be a heavy price to pay because of their
sins. The land would tremble and all its inhabitants mourn. For YHWH
was about to br...
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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...
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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...
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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 eph...
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_Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that I will send a famine in
the land._
THE USES OF ADVERSITY
If adversity tried and sifted men, prosperity tried and sifted them
much more. Where adversity sle...
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AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 8:1 In powerful word-pictures, Amos describes the
final end of Israel.
⇐ ⇔...
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AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 8:11 Israel had rejected the WORDS OF THE LORD
from Amos. They will go into exile, where there will be no word from
the Lord at all. In its absence they will find that the revelation...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Samuel 28:15; 1 Samuel 28:6; 1 Samuel 3:1; Ezekiel 7:26; Isaiah
30:20
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What does Amos mean when he says there will be a famine of hearing the
words of the Lord?
PROBLEM: Because of the sin of Israel, God pronounced through His
prophet Amos that He would bring judgment up...