Amo 8 | TSK | STEP | By a basket of summer fruit is shown the approach of Israel's end. Oppression is reproved. A famine of the word of God threatened.

Amos 8

1 By a basket of summer fruit is shown the approach of Israel's end.

4 Oppression is reproved.

11 A famine of the word of God threatened.

7:1,4,7

Amos.

7:8; Jer 1:11-14; Eze 8:6,12,17; Zec 1:18-21; 5:2,5,6

A basket.

De 26:1-4; 2Sa 16:1,2; Isa 28:4; Jer 24:1-3; 40:10; Mic 7:1

the end.There is here not only an allusion to the nature of the summer fruit, which must be eaten as soon as gathered, but also a paronomasia upon the words {kayitz,} "summer fruit," and {ketz,} "an end."

Jer 1:12; 5:31; La 4:18; Eze 7:2; 3:7,10; 12:23; 29:8

I will not.

7:8

the songs.

10; 5:23; Ho 10:5,6; Joe 1:5,11,13; Zec 11:1-3

shall be howlings. Heb. shall howl. many.

4:10; Isa 37:36; Jer 9:21,22; Na 3:3

they shall.

6:9,10; Jer 22:18

with silence. Heb. be silent.

Le 10:3; Ps 39:9

Hear.

7:16; 1Ki 22:19; Isa 1:10; 28:14; Jer 5:21; 28:15

swallow.

2:6; 5:11; Ps 12:5; 14:4; 56:1; 140:12; Pr 30:14; Isa 32:6,7

Mt 23:14; Jas 5:6

When.

Nu 10:10; 28:11-15; 2Ki 4:23; Ps 81:3,4; Isa 1:13; Col 2:16

new moon. or, month. be gone.

Mal 1:13

and the.

Ex 20:8-10; Ne 13:15-21; Isa 58:13; Ro 8:6,7

set forth. Heb. open. making.

Le 19:36; De 25:13-16; Pr 11:1; 16:11; 20:23; Eze 45:10-12

Mic 6:10,11

falsifying the balances by deceit. Heb. perverting thebalances of deceit.

Ho 12:7

4; 2:6; Le 25:39-42; Ne 5:1-5,8; Joe 3:3,6

sworn.

6:8; De 33:26-29; Ps 47:4; 68:34; Lu 2:32

I will.

Ex 17:16; 1Sa 15:2,3; Ps 10:11; Isa 43:25; Jer 17:1; 31:34

Ho 7:2; 8:13; 9:9

the land.It is supposed that an earthquake is here intended; the rising and falling of the ground, with a wave-like motion, and its leaving its proper place and bounds, in consequence of an earthquake, being justly and beautifully compared to the swelling, overflowing, and subsiding of the Nile.

Ps 18:7; 60:2,3; 114:3-7; Isa 5:25; 24:19,20; Jer 4:24-26

Mic 1:3-5; Na 1:5,6; Hab 3:5-8; Hag 2:6,7

every one.

10; 9:5; Jer 12:4; Ho 4:3; 10:5; Mt 24:30

rise.

9:5; Isa 8:7,8; Jer 46:8; Da 9:26

that I.This is supposed to refer to an eclipse; and Abp. Usher has shown that about eleven years after Amos prophesied there were two great eclipses of the sun, one at the feast of tabernacles, and the other some time before the passover.

4:13; 5:8; Job 5:14; Isa 13:10; 29:9,10; 59:9,10; Jer 15:9; Mic 3:6

Mt 24:29; Re 6:12; 8:12

and I.

Ex 10:21-23; Mt 27:45; Mr 15:33; Lu 23:44

I will turn.

3; 5:23; 6:4-7; De 16:14; 1Sa 25:36-38; 2Sa 13:28-31; Job 20:23

Isa 21:3,4; 22:12-14; Da 5:4-6; Ho 2:11; Na 1:10

sackcloth.

Isa 15:2,3; Jer 48:37; Eze 7:18; 27:30,31

as the.

Jer 6:26; Zec 12:10; Lu 7:12,13

a bitter.