Amos 8:11

Behold. Figure of speech Asterismos, App-6.

of hearing, &c. Compare 1 Samuel 3:1; Psalms 74:9; Ezekiel 7:26,

words, With 'eth. the very words. Some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "word" (singular)

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Not a famine for bread - He does not deny that there should be bodily famine too; but this, grievous as it is, would be less grievous than the fa...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Development of the Theme of Amos 3. This section, which re-echoes Amos 2:6-8 , has been regarded as a conglomeration of rather loosely-connected f...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Here now the Prophet fulminates, for he denounces not temporal punishments, but final destruction, and what proves to be an evidence of reproba...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the w...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

I will send a famine— The prophet here foretels that it should come to pass, that when they were suffering by famine they should inquire for prophe...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing t...
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The word which they craved was not one of spiritual instruction, but of guidance out of trouble: cp. 1 Samuel 3:1 .
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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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

What an awful sound is here! And how dreadfully awful in that land, that parish, that people, that family, or person, in whom it is fulfilled. A fami...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

THE USES OF ADVERSITY ‘Behold the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for wa...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God ,.... Which Kimchi interprets of all the days of the second house or temple after Malachi, when prophecy c...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the w...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Behold the days come, saith the Lord This is spoken of events which were yet at some distance. That I will send a famine in the land, not of bread...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Spiritual Famine Threatened; Judgments Threatened. B. C. 785....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Behold; note well what now I shall declare to you, and consider it. The days come, saith the Lord God; surely, speedily, and according to the thr...
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...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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The Biblical Illustrator

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The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the wo...
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¹¹ Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:

Related Commentaries of Amos 8:11

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

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

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit 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 8:11