Shall not the land...? — The rendering should be, The whole of it rises as the Nile, surges and subsides (or sinks) as the Egyptian Nile. The solid land shall rise up in earthquake, like the Nile that ascends twenty feet in the time of its inundation, and then subsides.
Verse Amos 8:8. _SHALL NOT THE LAND TREMBLE FOR THIS_] It is supposed that an _earthquake_ is here intended, and that the _rising up_ and _subsiding as a flood_ refers to that _heaving motion_ that t...
SHALL NOT THE LAND TREMBLE FOR THIS? - o: “For the greater impressiveness, he ascribes to the insensate earth sense, indignation, horror, trembling. For all creation feels the will of its Creator.” “I...
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...
FLOOD. Hebrew. _or_. Referring to the overflowing of the Nile. DROWNED. subside....
A fresh denunciation of Israel's sin, followed by a fresh picture of the impending calamities....
A hyperbolical description of the terrible nature of the coming judgement. On account of such enormities, the land will tremble, and rise up in mighty convulsions against the offenders; and darkness a...
_THE NATURE OF ISRAEL'S JUDGMENT -- AMOS 8:7-10:_ Israel was prideful or arrogant about the fact that they were descendants of Jacob. God told them that this fact would not cause Him to forget any of...
AND SHALL RISE UP, &C.— _And destruction shall rise up like a flood; and it shall be dissolved and drowned as by the river of Egypt._ The prophet here refers to the great earthquake, whereof he spoke...
DESCRIPTION OF JUDGMENTS PROPHESIEDBITTER MOURNING TEXT: Amos 8:7-10 7 Jehovah hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works. 8 Shall not the land tremble f...
Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt. SHALL NOT THE...
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...
הַ֤ עַל זֹאת֙ לֹֽא ־תִרְגַּ֣ז הָ אָ֔רֶץ
COMMON SENSE AND THE REIGN OF LAW Amos 3:3; Amos 4:6; Amos 5:8; Amos 6:12; Amos 8:8;...
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...
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...
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...
Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and (f) drowned, as [by] the flood of Egypt. (f) That...
_Altogether. Septuagint, "its total ruin shall rise as a river." --- Egypt. The whole land shall be visited with misery, as Egypt is by the Nile. (Haydock) --- The enemy shall retire with the booty. T...
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...
He confirms what the last verse contains in other words: and the question is emphatical, for it is a double affirmation. A question, we know, is usually put, when there is no measure of doubt on the s...
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...
SHALL NOT THE LAND TREMBLE FOR THIS,.... For this wickedness committed, in using the poor with so much inhumanity? may not an earthquake be expected? and which happened two years after Amos began to p...
Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as [by] the flood of Egypt. Ver. 8. _Shal...
_Shall not the land tremble_ Shall not the state, or government, and all the people of the land, be terribly afraid, and greatly troubled; _for this This_, that you have done, O house of Israel, in si...
A LAST ADMONITION OF THE LORD...
Shall not the land tremble for this, for the deeds of such conscienceless scoundrels, AND EVERY ONE MOURN THAT DWELLETH THEREIN? namely, on account of the force of the Lord's punishment. AND IT SHALL...
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...
SHALL NOT THE LAND TREMBLE? either literally, are not such sins and judgments enough to shake the very foundations of the earth? Or, metonymically, the land for the people of it, as after in the verse...
Amos 8:8 land H776 tremble H7264 (H8799) mourn H56 (H8804) dwells H3427 (H8802) swell H5927 (H8
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 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...
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...
_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...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 8:1 In powerful word-pictures, Amos describes the final end of Israel. ⇐ ⇔...
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....
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 9:5; Amos 8:10; Amos 9:5; Daniel 9:26; Habakkuk 3:5;...
The land — The people of it. For this — This that you have done, and this that God will do. And it — The judgment, the displeasure of God, shall rise and grow like a mighty wasting flood. It — The lan...