CHAPTER VIII _This chapter begins with a fourth vision denoting the certainty_ _and nearness of the destruction of Israel_, 1-3. _The prophet then proceeds to reprove their oppression and_ _injust...
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...
THE LORD GOD. Heb, Adonai Jehovah. See note on Amos 1:8 SUMMER FRUIT. Hebrew kayitz. ripe, "summer" being put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for ripe fruits characterizing the sum...
Amos 8:1 to Amos 9:11. The visions resumed. Amos 8:1-14. The fourth vision (Amos 8:1-3). The basket of summer fruit. 1. _Thus_ DID the Lord
_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...
A BASKET OF SUMMER FRUIT— _Of autumnal fruit;_ or, "Of the last season of the year." Houbigant; and so in the next verse, where, instead of _the end,_ he reads the _last end,_ keeping up the allusion,...
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...
Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit. BEHOLD A BASKET OF SUMMER FRUIT - "summer fruit;" Hebrew, Kaitz. In Amos 8:2, "end" is in the Hebrew Keetz. The similarity...
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...
כֹּ֥ה הִרְאַ֖נִי אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֑ה וְ הִנֵּ֖ה...
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...
_Hook. Hebrew, "basket of summer fruit." Septuagint, "bird cage or net." (Haydock) --- Israel was ripe for destruction, ver. 2., and chap. vii. 8. (Calmet) --- Not only those who were near, (4 Kings x...
CONTENTS The Prophet is here again in this Chapter instructing by figure. By a basket of summer-fruit is shown the state of Israel. The Chapter closeth with the threatenings of famine....
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...
By these words or by this vision the Prophet confirms what we have already observed — that paternal chastisements would no longer be exercised towards the people of Israel. God indeed, as it is well k...
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...
THUS HATH THE LORD GOD SHOWED UNTO ME,.... Another vision, which is the fourth, and after the following manner: AND, BEHOLD, A BASKET OF SUMMER FRUIT; not of the first ripe fruit, but of such as were...
Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit. Ver. 1. _Thus hath the Lord God showed unto me_] viz. in this fourth vision, whereby (for better assurance, and to shake th...
_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....
Thus hath the Lord God showed unto me, in another vision revealing the fate of Israel, AND BEHOLD A BASKET OF SUMMER-FRUIT, dead ripe, ready to be consumed....
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 CHAPTER 8 By a basket of summer fruit is showed the near approach of Israel's end, AMOS 8:1. Their oppression of the poor shall cause their joy to be turned into mourning, AMOS 8:4. A famine of G...
Amos 8:1 Lord H136 GOD H3069 showed H7200 (H8689) basket H3619 fruit H7019 Amos 7:1,...
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 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...
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...
A BASKET OF SUMMER FRUIT Behold, a basket of summer fruit. Amos 8:1. If any of you children chanced to go to Ayrshire in summer and found yourselves near a place called Alloway, you would meet touri...
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 7:1; Amos 7:4; Amos 7:7...