I will send a famine— The prophet here foretels that it should come to pass, that when they were suffering by famine they should inquire for prophets from whom they might hear the word of God; but that no prophets should be found; or if there were any, they should have nothing to deliver them from God, who, during their calamity, would keep a profound silence. See Houbigant.
Verse Amos 8:11. _A FAMINE IN THE LAND_] The most grievous of all famines, a famine of _the words of Jehovah_; a time in which no prophet should appear, no spiritual counsellor, no faithful reprover,...
NOT A FAMINE FOR BREAD - He does not deny that there should be bodily famine too; but this, grievous as it is, would be less grievous than the famine of which he speaks, “the famine of the word of the...
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...
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos,_ App-6. OF HEARING, &c. Compare 1 Samuel 3:1; Psalms 74:9; Ezekiel 7:26, WORDS, With _'eth. the_ very words. Some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and
A fresh denunciation of Israel's sin, followed by a fresh picture of the impending calamities....
_Behold_, DAYS ARE COMING] Amos 4:2. _words_ Read probably (with many MSS., LXX. Vulg. Pesh.; cf. Amos 8:12) the sing, "word," the regular term for a particular communication from Jehovah....
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...
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...
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: I WILL SEND A FAMINE IN THE LA...
THE WORD which they craved was not one of spiritual instruction, but of guidance out of trouble: cp. 1 Samuel 3:1....
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 imagery is very vivid. The prophet threatens a famine of the word of Jehovah, and a parching thirst for the Water of Life, now no longer attainable. Such terrible destitution often supervenes on t...
הִנֵּ֣ה ׀ יָמִ֣ים בָּאִ֗ים נְאֻם֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה...
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...
Lord. During the siege provisions were wanting, but instruction still more so. (Worthington) --- Israel had banished Amos. They would be left destitute. We find no prophet among the during the captivi...
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...
_THE USES OF ADVERSITY_ ‘Behold the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of bearing the words of the Lord.’ Amos 8...
Here now the Prophet fulminates, for he denounces not temporal punishments, but final destruction, and what proves to be an evidence of reprobation, and that is, that God would deprive the Israelites...
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...
BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME, SAITH THE LORD GOD,.... Which Kimchi interprets of all the days of the second house or temple after Malachi, when prophecy ceased; but it rather has respect to the time of Shalm...
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: Ver. 11. _Behold, the days come_...
_Behold the days come, saith the Lord_ This is spoken of events which were yet at some distance. _That I will send a famine in the land, not of bread, &c., but of hearing the words of the Lord_ When A...
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord, causing men anxiously to search fo...
A LAST ADMONITION OF THE LORD...
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...
BEHOLD; note well what now I shall declare to you, and consider it. THE DAYS COME, SAITH THE LORD GOD; surely, speedily, and according to the threats of God. I WILL SEND A FAMINE IN THE LAND; by a sig...
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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...
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...
_Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that I will send a famine in the land._ THE USES OF ADVERSITY If adversity tried and sifted men, prosperity tried and sifted them much more. Where adversity sle...
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...
1 Samuel 28:15; 1 Samuel 28:6; 1 Samuel 3:1; Ezekiel 7:26; Isaiah 30:20
What does Amos mean when he says there will be a famine of hearing the words of the Lord? PROBLEM: Because of the sin of Israel, God pronounced through His prophet Amos that He would bring judgment up...