Amos 8:1

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 the summer. Compare 2 Samuel 16:2.Jeremiah 40:12.

Related Commentaries of Amos 8:1

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

By these words or by this vision the Prophet confirms what we have already observed — that paternal chastisements would no longer be exercised...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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,...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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 en...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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. I...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 ), thre...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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 p...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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 it...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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....
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 clos...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

By the similitude of summer-fruit, which of course as soon as it ripens hastens to decay, is shewn, in a lively representation, the transitory state...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 f...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 vi...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Vision of Summer Fruit. B. C. 785. ...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 th...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Fourth Vision - The Vision Of The Basket Of Summer Fruit Indicating That Israel Were About To Be Harvested ( Amos 8:1-14 ). In his fourth visi...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 o...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
The Biblical Illustrator

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,...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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. Explai...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Vision of the Basket of Summer-Fruit.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 7:1 ; Amos 7:4 ; Amos 7:7

¹ Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.

Related Commentaries of Amos 8:1

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 8:1