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Verse Amos 8:5. _WHEN WILL THE NEW MOON BE GONE_] This was kept as a
kind of _holy day_, not by Divine command, but by _custom_. The
_Sabbath_ was strictly holy; and yet so covetous were they that th...
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WHEN WILL THE NEW MOON BE GONE? - They kept their festivals, though
weary and impatient for their close. They kept sabbath and festival
with their bodies, not with their minds. The Psalmist said, “Whe...
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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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THE NEW MOON. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 10:10, &c.) the
sabbath. Ref to Pentateuch (Exodus 20:10). App-92. Stopping their
business for. day.
SET FORTH WHEAT. Hebrew. wheat market: "wheat" being...
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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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_When will the new moon be gone?_ The new moon, the first of the
month, was observed as a popular holiday (2 Kings 4:23; cf. 1 Samuel
20:5; 1 Samuel 20:24), and marked by religious services...
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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 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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THE NEW MOON, &C.— Of that month wherein the fruits of the year were
used first to be sold. By _the sabbath_ the Chaldee understands the
sabbatical year; for, as Grotius observes, that year being past...
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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.
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And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I...
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Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and
the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and
the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
WHE...
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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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WHEN... GONE. — They desired that the festivals of the New Moon and
Sabbath should be over, when they might not only return to their
secular employments, but pursue their search for ill-gotten gains —...
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לֵ אמֹ֗ר מָתַ֞י יַעֲבֹ֤ר הַ חֹ֨דֶשׁ֙
וְ
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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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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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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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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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Saying, When will the (d) new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and
the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making (e) the ephah small,
and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit...
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_Mouth: the first day was observed as a festival, Numbers x. 10.
(Haydock) --- At the expiration of the month usurers demanded their
money. (Horace, i. sat. 3.; Aristophanes, Nub. ii. 1.) --- Corn, to...
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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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The Prophet goes on here with the same subject; for this could not
apply to the whole people, but only to the plunderers who were able to
oppress the miserable and the poor among the common people, an...
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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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SAYING, WHEN WILL THE NEW MOON BE GONE, THAT WE MAY SELL CORN?.... The
first day of every month, on which it was forbid to sell any thing, or
do any worldly business, being appointed and used for reli...
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Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the
sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the
shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
Ver....
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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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A LAST ADMONITION OF THE LORD...
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saying, When will the new moon, the day which they considered a time
of enforced idleness, BE GONE THAT WE MAY SELL CORN? speculating at
the expense of the poorer in the land, AND THE SABBATH, THAT WE...
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NEW MOON:
Or, month
SET FORTH:
_ Heb._ open
FALSIFYING THE BALANCES BY DECEIT?:
_ Heb._ perverting the balances of deceit...
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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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WHEN WILL THE NEW MOON BE GONE? ye that could wish there were nothing
to interrupt your marketing, your irreligious impatience, and your
eagerness after the world, look on solemn times of Divine worsh...
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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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_When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn?_
and the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat.
HONOURING THE LORD’S DAY
The physical wants of man demand a day of rest; and it is a gracious
a...
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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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2 Kings 4:23; Colossians 2:16; Deuteronomy 25:13; Exodus 20:8;...
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When — Ye that could wish there were nothing to interrupt your
marketing, that look on solemn times of worship as burdensome, such
was the first day of every month, and the weekly sabbath. Small — So...