Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Amos 8:3
With silence — So great will be the cruelty of the enemy, that they dare not bury them, or if they do, it must be undiscerned.
With silence — So great will be the cruelty of the enemy, that they dare not bury them, or if they do, it must be undiscerned.
Verse Amos 8:3. _THE SONGS OF THE TEMPLE_] Instead of שירות _shiroth,_ _songs, Houbigant_ reads שורות _shoroth_, the _singing women_; and _Newcome_ follows him: "And the singing women of the palace sh...
THE SONGS OF THE TEMPLE SHALL BE HOWLINGS - Literally, “shall howl.” It shall be, as when mirthful music is suddenly broken in upon, and, through the sudden agony of the singer, ends in a shriek or ye...
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...
TEMPLE. The 1611 edition of the Authorized Version reads temples". BE. become, SAITH THE LORD GOD. [is] Adonai. Jehovah's oracle. DEAD BODIES. corpses. See notes on Amos 6:9; Amos 6:10. CAST THEM...
The nature of the -end" more fully described: the songs of the temple will be turned into loud cries of woe; so many will be the slain that they will be flung out unburied and unlamented. _temple_ The...
_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...
AND THE SONGS OF THE TEMPLE— _And the singers of the palace shall howl,_ &c. Houbigant. As Amos prophesies against Israel, not against Judah, the temple cannot be meant here. See Amos 8:8 of the prece...
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 the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence. THE SONGS OF THE TEMPLE SHALL...
8:3 palace (f-6) Or 'temple.' Silence! (a-31) See ch. 6.10....
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...
TEMPLE. — The word thus rendered (_hêchal_) also signifies “palace,” and this is probably the meaning in this passage. The “songs” have been already spoken of in Amos 6:5. The construction of the foll...
וְ הֵילִ֜ילוּ שִׁירֹ֤ות הֵיכָל֙ בַּ † יֹּ֣ום...
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 the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: [there shall be] many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast [them] forth with (b) silence. (b) There will be none...
_Temple, when God comes like a mighty warrior; or when the profane temples shall be pillaged, chap. ix. 1. Hebrew also, "the canticles of the temple or palace shall be changed into lamentations." ---...
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...
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...
The Prophet touches the Israelites here, in an indirect way, for taking such delight in their superstitions as to sing in their prosperity, as though God was favorable to them; for the unbelieving are...
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 THE SONGS OF THE TEMPLE SHALL BE HOWLINGS IN THAT DAY, SAITH THE LORD GOD,.... Not the songs sung by the Levites in the temple of Jerusalem, this prophecy respects the ten tribes only; but those...
And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: [there shall be] many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast [them] forth with silence. Ver. 3. _And the songs of t...
_And the songs of the temple shall be howlings_, &c. Houbigant renders it, _And the singers of the palace shall howl_, the word היכל, signifying _palace_ as well as _temple;_ and as Amos prophesied ag...
And the song's of the Temple, originally intended to convey the spirit of the highest rejoicing, SHALL BE HOWLINGS IN THAT DAY, cries of the deepest grief and mourning over the large number of the sla...
THE VISION OF THE BASKET OF SUMMER-FRUIT....
SHALL BE HOWLINGS: _ Heb._ shall howl WITH SILENCE: _ Heb._ be silent...
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...
THE SONGS; which were composed by choicest wits, and set to sweetest tunes, and chanted out by most skilful singers to the best musical instruments. OF THE TEMPLE; either to take in Judah, and foretel...
Amos 8:3 songs H7892 temple H1964 wailing H3213 (H8689) day H3117 Says H5002 (H8803) Lord H136 Many...
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...
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...
Amos 4:10; Amos 6:10; Amos 6:9; Amos 5:23; Amos 8:10;...