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; 5:2,5,6A basket.De 26:1-4; 2Sa 16:1,2; Isa 28:4; Jer 24:1-3; 40:10; Mic 7:1the 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; 29:8I will not.7:8 the songs.10; 5:23; Ho 10:5,6; Joe 1:5,11,13; Zec 11:1-3shall be howlings. Heb. shall howl. many.4:10; Isa 37:36; Jer 9:21,22; Na 3:3they shall.6:9,10; Jer 22:18with silence. Heb. be silent.Le 10:3; Ps 39:9 Hear.7:16; 1Ki 22:19; Isa 1:10; 28:14; Jer 5:21; 28:15swallow.2:6; 5:11; Ps 12:5; 14:4; 56:1; 140:12; Pr 30:14; Isa 32:6,7Mt 23:14; Jas 5:6 When.Nu 10:10; 28:11-15; 2Ki 4:23; Ps 81:3,4; Isa 1:13; Col 2:16new moon. or, month. be gone.Mal 1:13and the.Ex 20:8-10; Ne 13:15-21; Isa 58:13; Ro 8:6,7set forth. Heb. open. making.Le 19:36; De 25:13-16; Pr 11:1; 16:11; 20:23; Eze 45:10-12Mic 6:10,11falsifying 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 2:32I will.Ex 17:16; 1Sa 15:2,3; Ps 10:11; Isa 43:25; Jer 17:1; 31:34Ho 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 4:24-26Mic 1:3-5; Na 1:5,6; Hab 3:5-8; Hag 2:6,7every one.10; 9:5; Jer 12:4; Ho 4:3; 10:5; Mt 24:30rise.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 3:6Mt 24:29; Re 6:12; 8:12and 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 20:23Isa 21:3,4; 22:12-14; Da 5:4-6; Ho 2:11; Na 1:10sackcloth.Isa 15:2,3; Jer 48:37; Eze 7:18; 27:30,31as the.Jer 6:26; Zec 12:10; Lu 7:12,13a bitter.Job 3:5; *marg: but.1Sa 3:1; 28:6,15; Ps 74:9; Isa 5:6; 30:20,21; Eze 7:26; Mic 3:6Mt 9:36 shall run.Pr 14:6; Da 12:4; Mt 11:25-27; 12:30; 24:23-26; Ro 9:31-33Ro 11:7-10; 2Ti 3:6,7 De 32:25; Ps 63:1; 144:12-15; Isa 40:30; 41:17-20; Jer 48:18La 1:18; 2:10,21; Ho 2:3; Zec 9:17 swear.Ho 4:15; Zep 1:5sin.De 9:21; 1Ki 12:28,29,32; 13:22-34; 14:16; 16:24; 2Ki 10:29Ho 8:5,6; 10:5; 13:2,16manner. Heb. way.Ac 9:2; 18:25; 19:9,23; 24:14Beer-sheba. See on ver.5shall fall.De 33:11; 2Ch 36:16; Ps 36:12; 140:10; Pr 29:1; Isa 43:17Jer 25:27; 51:64
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