Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Amos 8:2
The end — Of God's patience towards Israel, the end of their ripening, they are now fully ripe, fit to be gathered. Pass by them — God had with admirable patience spared, but now he will no more pardon or spare.
The end — Of God's patience towards Israel, the end of their ripening, they are now fully ripe, fit to be gathered. Pass by them — God had with admirable patience spared, but now he will no more pardon or spare.
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_, bo...
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 de...
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)...
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 frui...
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 question is asked for the same purpose as in Amos 7:8. _The end_ Amos answers, "A basket of _ḳaitz_": Jehovah replies, "_Ḳêtz_an -end" is come upon my people Israel." The last vision had declared...
_THE VISION OF SUMMER FRUIT -- AMOS 8:1-3:_ Several times in the Book of Amos the prophet describe visions shown to him by God. Here the Lord showed him a basket of ripe summer fruit. The ripe fruit c...
CAUSES OF JUDGMENT PROPHESIEDGOD'S LONGSUFFERING HAS EXPIRED TEXT: Amos 8:1-6 1 Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me: and, behold, a basket of summer fruit. 2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I...
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 C...
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...
The visions are resumed as though the priest at Bethel had trembled at the presence of Amos, and had ceased to persecute him. There is a remarkable play of words, _qaits_ being the Hebrew for “summer...
וַ יֹּ֗אמֶר מָֽה ־אַתָּ֤ה רֹאֶה֙ עָמֹ֔וס וָ
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...
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 he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of (a) 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. (a) Which s...
By the similitude of summer-fruit, which of course as soon as it ripens hastens to decay, is shewn, in a lively representation, the transitory state of all men; not only Israel, but all flesh: for all...
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...
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...
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 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...
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. Ver. 2. _Amos,...
_Behold a basket of summer fruit_ This symbolically denoted that Israel's sins were now ripe for judgment, and that as the fruit, when it is ripe, is taken from the trees, so, their iniquity being now...
THE VISION OF THE BASKET OF SUMMER-FRUIT....
And he said, again anxious to impress the meaning of the vision upon the prophet, AMOS, WHAT SEEST THOU? AND I SAID, A BASKET OF SUMMER-FRUIT. THEN SAID THE LORD UNTO ME, THE END IS COME UPON MY PEOPL...
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. Su...
AMOS, WHAT SEEST THOU? the like question you have AMOS 7:8, which see. A BASKET OF SUMMER FRUIT: see AMOS 8:1. _Then said the Lord unto me_: the meaning of this hieroglyphic not being very plain in it...
Amos 8:2 said H559 (H8799) Amos H5986 see H7200 (H8802) said H559 (H8799) basket H3619 fruit H
THE VISION OF APPROACHING JUDGMENT (AMOS 8:1). Amos 8:1 ‘ Thus the Lord YHWH showed me, and, behold, a basket of summer fruit.' Once more we have emphasis on ‘the Lord YHWH'. The One Who was Lord ov...
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 eph...
_A basket of summer fruit._ A BASKET OF SUMMER FRUIT As God set before Amos a basket of summer fruit, as a sign or parable concerning Israel; so, at harvest-tide God sets before us a basket of summe...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 8:1 In powerful word-pictures, Amos describes the final end of Israel. ⇐ ⇔...
CRITICAL NOTES.] The visions continued from ch. Amos 7:9 AMOS 8:2. SUMMER] Late fruit, fully ripe (2 Samuel 16:1; Micah 7:1); a symbol of a people ripe for judg
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 Samuel 16:1; 2 Samuel 16:2; Amos 7:8; Deuteronomy 26:1; Ezekiel 12: