Amos 8:1 - 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 their joy to be turned into mourning, Amos 8:4-10. A famine of God's word threatened, Amos 8:11-14. Thus hath the Lord God showed unto me: and behold: see Amos 7:1,4,7. A basket; a hook, say some, with which the gatherer might either pull down the bough, or pull off the ripe fruit; or a basket into which the ripe fruit gathered was put to be carried away. Summer fruit; not the early ripe fruit, but that which, as it needed, so had the whole summer's heat to ripen it, and was gathered in at the end of the summer.