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?
(d) When the scarcity had come they were so greedy for gain, that they thought the holy day to be a hindrance to them.
(e) That is, the measure small, and the price great.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Amos indignantly turns to the rapacious merchants of Israel, rebuking them for their avarice, their dishonesty, and their meanness....
A fresh denunciation of Israel's sin, followed by a fresh picture of the impending calamities....
_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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 —...
לֵ אמֹ֗ר מָתַ֞י יַעֲבֹ֤ר הַ חֹ֨דֶשׁ֙ וְ
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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....
_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...
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...
A LAST ADMONITION OF THE LORD...
NEW MOON: Or, month SET FORTH: _ Heb._ open FALSIFYING THE BALANCES BY DECEIT?: _ Heb._ perverting the balances of deceit...
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...
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...
Amos 8:5 Saying H559 (H8800) Moon H2320 past H5674 (H8799) sell H7666 (H8686) grain H7668 Sabbath...
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 -...
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...
_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...
_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. ⇐ ⇔...
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
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...
2 Kings 4:23; Colossians 2:16; Deuteronomy 25:13; Exodus 20:8;...
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...