Amos 2:6; Amos 8:4; Joel 3:3; Joel 3:6; Leviticus 25:39-42; Nehemiah 5:1-5; Nehemiah 5:8
That we may buy - Or, indignantly, “To buy the poor!” literally, “the afflicted,” those in “low” estate. First, by dishonesty and oppression they...
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...
buy the poor, &c. See note on Amos 2:6 . the poor . impoverished ones. Hebrew. dal (plural) See note on "poverty", Proverbs 6:11 . the...
Here still he speaks of the avarice of the rich, who in time of scarcity held the poor subject to themselves and reduced them to slavery. He ha...
That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea , and sell the refuse of the wheat? That we may buy the poor for silver...
That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat? That we may buy the poor for s...
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...
On this perverse straining of the Law, comp. Amos 2:6 . Their money-making propensity was carried to such unscrupulous lengths, that they even sold...
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...
DOOM OR DISCIPLINE? Amos 8:4-9 WE now enter the Third Section of the Book of Amos: Chapter s 7-9. As we have already treated the first part of...
1. EARTHQUAKE, ECLIPSE, AND FAMINE Amos 8:4-14 "Hear this, ye who trample the needy, and would put an end to the lowly of the land, saying, Whe...
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....
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...
When devotion itself is out of tune by the heart being under no influences of grace; alas! what a sacrifice of fools is then offered! Sabbaths are bu...
That we may buy the poor for silver ,.... Thus making them pay dear for their provisions, and using them in this fraudulent manner, by which they wo...
That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; [yea], and sell the refuse of the wheat? Ver. 6. That we may buy the poor...
Hear, O ye that swallow up the needy That greedily and cruelly devour such as would have been objects of your compassion, had you been just and mer...
The Sin and Doom of Oppressors. B. C. 785....
That we may-buy the poor: either it speaks the aim of these men in oppressing the poor thus, that they might at last buy their persons for servants...
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...
The Reason For The Judgment ( Amos 8:4-7 ). One reason for this judgment is now clearly stated (we have already been told, and will be told again,...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 8:4 . Hear ] The nobles hated reproof. Swallow ] Heb. gape after, earnestly desire ( Job 7:2 ); pant after goods as wild...
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...
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy. Avarice I. It is execrable in its spirit. 1. It is sacrilegious. Bad as Israel was, it still kept...
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...
A Last Admonition of the Lord
that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of shoes, compelling him to sell himself either for a certain amount of money which he o...
That we may buy — They would have new moons and sabbaths over, that they might go to market to buy the poor. And when these poor owed but for a ver...
6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?