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Verse Amos 8:6. _THAT WE MAY BUY THE POOR FOR SILVER_] Buying their
services for such a time, with just money enough to clear them from
other creditors.
_AND THE NEEDY FOR A PAIR OF SHOES_] See Amos...
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THAT WE MAY BUY - Or, indignantly, “To buy the poor!” literally,
“the afflicted,” those in “low” estate. First, by dishonesty
and oppression they gained their lands and goods. Then the poor were
oblig...
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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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BUY THE POOR, &C. See note on Amos 2:6.
THE POOR. impoverished ones. Hebrew. _dal_ (plural) See note on
"poverty", Proverbs 6:11.
THE NEEDY. a needy one. Hebrew. _ebyon_, as in Amos 8:4.
SELL. sell
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Amos indignantly turns to the rapacious merchants of Israel, rebuking
them for their avarice, their dishonesty, and their meanness....
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A fresh denunciation of Israel's sin, followed by a fresh picture of
the impending calamities....
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The final issue of the rapacious conduct described in Amos 8:5 is that
the poor are more and more impoverished, and, falling into debt, have
in the end to sell themselves or their children as slaves ...
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_THE NATURE OF ISRAEL'S SIN -- AMOS 8:4-6:_ God reminded the leaders
of Israel of their sins in taking advantage of the poor to expand
their own selfish interests. They had literally swallowed up the...
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CAUSES OF JUDGMENT PROPHESIEDGOD'S LONGSUFFERING HAS EXPIRED
TEXT: Amos 8:1-6
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Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me: and, behold, a basket of summer
fruit.
2
And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I...
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That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of
shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
THAT WE MAY BUY THE POOR FOR SILVER, AND THE NEEDY FOR A PAIR OF
SHOES - i:e., that we...
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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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On this perverse straining of the Law, comp. Amos 2:6. Their
money-making propensity was carried to such unscrupulous lengths, that
they even sold the refuse of corn, little better than mere chaff....
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לִ קְנֹ֤ות בַּ † כֶּ֨סֶף֙ דַּלִּ֔ים
וְ...
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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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DOOM OR DISCIPLINE?
Amos 8:4
WE now enter the Third Section of the Book of Amos: Chapter s 7-9. As
we have already treated the first part of it-the group of four
visions, which probably formed the pr...
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5. THE PROPHET AND HIS MINISTRY
Amos 7:1 - Amos 8:1
We have seen the preparation of the Man for the Word; we have sought
to trace to its source the Word which came to the Man. It now remains
for us...
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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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_Shoes, for almost nothing. Thus they forced the poor to serve, or to
sell their effects._...
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When devotion itself is out of tune by the heart being under no
influences of grace; alas! what a sacrifice of fools is then offered!
Sabbaths are burdens, ordinances tiresome, prayer a drudgery, in
s...
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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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Here still he speaks of the avarice of the rich, who in time of
scarcity held the poor subject to themselves and reduced them to
slavery. He had spoken before of the Sabbaths, and he had spoken of
dec...
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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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THAT WE MAY BUY THE POOR FOR SILVER,.... Thus making them pay dear for
their provisions, and using them in this fraudulent manner, by which
they would not be able to support themselves and their famil...
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That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of
shoes; [yea], and sell the refuse of the wheat?
Ver. 6. _That we may buy the poor for silver, &c._] Thus the poor
always pay for it; t...
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_Hear, O ye that swallow up the needy_ That greedily and cruelly
devour such as would have been objects of your compassion, had you
been just and merciful as well as rich and great. He alludes to the...
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4-10 The rich and powerful of the land were the most guilty of
oppression, as well as the foremost in idolatry. They were weary of
the restraints of the sabbaths and the new moons, and wished them
ov...
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THAT WE MAY-BUY THE POOR: either it speaks the aim of these men in
oppressing the poor thus, that they might at last buy their persons
for servants and drudges, or else it speaks the reason why they w...
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Amos 8:6 buy H7069 (H8800) poor H1800 silver H3701 needy H34 sell
H7666 (H8686) bad H4651 wheat...
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THE REASON FOR THE JUDGMENT (AMOS 8:4).
One reason for this judgment is now clearly stated (we have already
been told, and will be told again, that it was partly because of false
and debased worship -...
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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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_Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy._
AVARICE
I. It is execrable in its spirit.
1. It is sacrilegious. Bad as Israel was, it still kept up the mere
observances of religion, yet these observa...
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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 8:5 Real worship of God in the NEW MOON and
SABBATH festivals would have resulted in compassion for the POOR and
the NEEDY. Throughout t
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
AMOS 8:4. HEAR] The nobles hated reproof. SWALLOW] Heb. gape after,
earnestly desire (Job 7:2); pant after goods as wild beasts for prey.
They sought to rid the land of all the poor....
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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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Amos 2:6; Amos 8:4; Joel 3:3; Joel 3:6; Leviticus 25:39;...
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That we may buy — They would have new moons and sabbaths over, that
they might go to market to buy the poor. And when these poor owed but
for a very little commodity, as suppose a pair of shoes, these...