Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Amos 8:12
Shall wander — Search all places for a prophet or preacher, from the Mid — land sea to the dead sea, they shall search all corners for a prophet.
Shall wander — Search all places for a prophet or preacher, from the Mid — land sea to the dead sea, they shall search all corners for a prophet.
Verse Amos 8:12. _THEY SHALL WANDER FRONT SEA TO SEA_] From the Mediterranean to the Dead Sea or from west to east, and from north to south, _to seek the word of the Lord_; to find a prophet, or any p...
THEY SHALL WANDER - Literally, “reel.” The word is used of the reeling of drunkards, of the swaying to and fro of trees in the wind, of the quivering of the lips of one agitated, and then of the unste...
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)...
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...
WANDER. Hebrew go tottering, or staggering....
A fresh denunciation of Israel's sin, followed by a fresh picture of the impending calamities....
_wander_ GO TOTTERING (comp. on Amos 4:8), with allusion to the uncertain gait of persons partly (Amos 8:13) exhausted, and partly bewildered, not knowing where to find what they are in search of (cf....
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...
_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 SHALL WANDER FROM SEA TO SEA, &C.— _From the west to the south._ Houbigant....
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...
And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it. THEY SHALL WANDER FROM SEA TO SEA - i:e.,...
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...
FROM SEA TO SEA] i.e. from the Mediterranean to the Dead Sea. 14. The SIN, or, rather, the 'guilt' of Samaria, is the idolatrous object worshipped by the Samaritans, either the calf at Bethel (1 Kings...
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...
THEY SHALL WANDER FROM SEA TO SEA... — Stagger and reel from east to west to find one seer who knows the mind of the Lord: they shall not find one. The reference to the east here has an instructive pa...
וְ נָעוּ֙ מִ יָּ֣ם עַד ־יָ֔ם וּ...
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 dis...
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...
And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the (h) word of the LORD, and shall not find [it]. (h) By which he shows that they will n...
_Sea to sea: from west to south, or to the ocean; in whatever part of the world they may be. (Calmet)_...
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...
But it may be here asked, Why does he say that they should be so famished as to _run here and there, and wander from sea to sea, from the south even to the east, _since this ought to be counted as one...
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...
AND THEY SHALL WANDER FROM SEA TO SEA,.... From the sea of Tiberias, or Galilee; or from the Dead sea, the lake Asphaltites; or from the Red sea, which was to the south of the land of Israel, to the g...
And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find [it]. Ver. 12. _And they shall wander from sea t...
_And they shall wander from sea to sea_ From the sea of Tiberias to the great sea, from one border of the country to another. _And from the north even to the east_ The prophet omits naming the _south_...
A LAST ADMONITION OF THE LORD...
and they shall wander from sea to sea, from the Dead Sea to the Mediterranean, AND FROM THE NORTH EVEN TO THE EAST, to the limitless extent of the Arabian Desert, THEY SHALL RUN TO AND FRO TO SEEK THE...
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...
THEY SHALL WANDER FROM SEA TO SEA; search all places for a prophet or a preacher from the Syrian or Midland Sea to that of Tiberias, to the Dead Sea, and to the Red Sea. FROM THE NORTH EVEN TO THE EAS...
Amos 8:12 wander H5128 (H8804) sea H3220 sea H3220 north H6828 east H4217 fro H7751 (H8787) seeking...
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...
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...
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 eph...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 8:1 In powerful word-pictures, Amos describes the final end of Israel. ⇐ ⇔...
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...
_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...
2 Timothy 3:6; 2 Timothy 3:7; Daniel 12:4; Matthew 11:25; Matthew 1