“ Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit. ”
Thus hath the Lord God showed me - The sentence of Amaziah pronounced, Amos resumes just where he left off, before Amaziah broke in upon him. His vehement interruption is like a stone cast into t...
The Vision of the Basket of Summer Fruit. The account of the visions is now resumed. This time the prophet sees a basket of summer fruit ( Amos 8:1 ), and Yahweh explains ( Amos 8:2 ) that the summ...
the Lord GOD. Heb, Adonai Jehovah. See note on Amos 1:8 summer fruit. Hebrew kayitz. ripe, "summer" being put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, for ripe fruits characterizing...
By these words or by this vision the Prophet confirms what we have already observed — that paternal chastisements would no longer be exercised towards the people of Israel. God indeed, as it is...
Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit. A basket of summer fruit - As summer fruit was not proper for preserving, but must be eaten as soon as gathered, so the Lor...
A basket of summer fruit— Of autumnal fruit; or, "Of the last season of the year." Houbigant; and so in the next verse, where, instead of the end, he reads the last end, keeping up the allusi...
Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit. Behold a basket of summer fruit - "summer fruit;" Hebrew, Kaitz. In Amos 8:2 , "end" is in the Hebrew Keetz. The si...
The Vision of the Ripe Fruit, followed by a Fifth Address 1-3. The vision. 4-14 . The address, denouncing dishonest traders ( Amos 8:4-6 ), threatening earthquakes, eclipse, mourning, a painful...
The visions are resumed as though the priest at Bethel had trembled at the presence of Amos, and had ceased to persecute him. There is a remarkable play of words, qaits being the Hebrew for “summer...
5. THE PROPHET AND HIS MINISTRY Amos 7:1-17 - Amos 8:1-4 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 re...
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 whi...
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...
CONTENTS The Prophet is here again in this Chapter instructing by figure. By a basket of summer-fruit is shown the state of Israel. The Chapter closeth with the threatenings of famine.
Thus hath the Lord God showed unto me ,.... Another vision, which is the fourth, and after the following manner: and, behold, a basket of summer fruit ; not of the first ripe fruit, but of such as...
Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit. Ver. 1. Thus hath the Lord God showed unto me ] viz. in this fourth vision, whereby (for better assurance, and to shake...
Behold a basket of summer fruit This symbolically denoted that Israel's sins were now ripe for judgment, and that as the fruit, when it is ripe, is taken from the trees, so, their iniquity being no...
The Vision of Summer Fruit. B. C. 785. 1 Thus hath the Lord G OD shewed unto me: and be...
AMOS CHAPTER 8 By a basket of summer fruit is showed the near approach of Israel's end, Amos 8:1-3 . Their oppression of the poor shall cause their joy to be turned into mourning, Amos 8:4-10...
The Vision Of Approaching Judgment ( Amos 8:1-3 ). Amos 8:1 ‘ Thus the Lord YHWH showed me, and, behold, a basket of summer fruit.' Once more we have emphasis on ‘the Lord YHWH'. The One Who w...
CRITICAL NOTES.] The visions continued from ch. Amos 7:9 Amos 8:2 . Summer ] Late fruit, fully ripe ( 2 Samuel 16:1 ; Micah 7:1 ); a symbol of a people ripe for judgment Amos 8:3 . Howl ....
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 t...
A basket of summer fruit. A basket of summer fruit As God set before Amos a basket of summer fruit, as a sign or parable concerning Israel; so, at harvest-tide God sets before us a basket of su...
EXPOSITION Amos 8:1-30 § 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 oppressio...
Thus hath the Lord God showed unto me, in another vision revealing the fate of Israel, and behold a basket of summer-fruit, dead ripe, ready to be consumed.
Amos 7:1 ; Amos 7:4 ; Amos 7:7