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Amos 8:9

And it shall come to pass in that day, the day of the Lord's punishment upon Israel, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day, by a terrible catastrophe, the picture being well applicable to the fate of a nation or of the earth when it is destroyed while in the very midst of its earthly fortune and power;

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Amos 8:9. _I WILL CAUSE THE SUN TO GO DOWN AT NOON_] This may either refer to that _darkness_ which often precedes and accompanies _earthquakes_, or to an _eclipse_. Abp. _Usher_ has shown that...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I WILL CAUSE THE SUN TO GO DOWN - Darkness is heaviest and blackest in contrast with the brightest light; sorrow is saddest, when it comes upon fearless joy. God commonly, in His mercy, sends heralds...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 8 The Fourth Vision: The Basket With Summer Fruit _ 1. The vision (Amos 8:1) _ 2. Israel ripe for judgment (Amos 8:4) 3. The coming days of famine (Amos 8:11)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    DEVELOPMENT OF THE THEME OF AMOS 3. This section, which re-echoes Amos 2:6, has been regarded as a conglomeration of rather loosely-connected fragments (_cf._ G. A. Smith). The prophet addresses himse...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    CAUSE THE SUN. This determines the time of the fulfilment of this "threatening". See Isaiah 13:10; Isaiah 59:9; Isaiah 59:10; Jeremiah 15:5.

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A fresh denunciation of Israel's sin, followed by a fresh picture of the impending calamities....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A hyperbolical description of the terrible nature of the coming judgement. On account of such enormities, the land will tremble, and rise up in mighty convulsions against the offenders; and darkness a...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Celestial wonders, which Amos pictures as accompanying the day of retribution (comp. Isaiah 13:10; Joel 2:10, Joel 4:15). It is possible that the imagery is borrowed from an eclipse of the sun; and on...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _THE NATURE OF ISRAEL'S JUDGMENT -- AMOS 8:7-10:_ Israel was prideful or arrogant about the fact that they were descendants of Jacob. God told them that this fact would not cause Him to forget any of...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, &C.— Times of calamity are frequently expressed by the failing of the light of the sun, and the day's being overspread with darkness. Archbishop Usher has observed, that abo...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    DESCRIPTION OF JUDGMENTS PROPHESIEDBITTER MOURNING TEXT: Amos 8:7-10 7 Jehovah hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works. 8 Shall not the land tremble f...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day: IN THAT DAY ... I WILL CAUSE THE SUN TO GO DO...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    8:9 land (c-30) Or 'the earth.'...

  • 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), threatening earthquakes, eclipse, mourning, a painful sense of...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 8 A PICTURE OF A BASKET OF FRUIT V1 This is what the *Lord the Ruler showed me: I saw a basket of ripe fruit. V2 The *L...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    DARKEN THE EARTH. — The darkening of the sun at noon-day gives an image of confusion and terror (comp. Amos 5:20). The eclipse of the sun that is here alluded to (see _Excursus_ C), like the earthquak...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ הָיָ֣ה ׀ בַּ † יֹּ֣ום הַ ה֗וּא...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    DOOM OR DISCIPLINE? Amos 8:4 WE now enter the Third Section of the Book of Amos: Chapter s 7-9. As we have already treated the first part of it-the group of four visions, which probably formed the pr...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    1. EARTHQUAKE, ECLIPSE, AND FAMINE Amos 8:4 "Hear this, ye who trample the needy, and would put an end to the lowly of the land, saying, When will the New-Moon be over, that we may sell grain, and th...

  • 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. To Amos it was an emblem of the rapidity with which dis...

  • 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 not pass by them any more. This announcement was f...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the (g) sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day: (g) In the midst of their prosperity, I will...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Light. Usher (the year of the world 3213.) explains this of an eclipse, at Pentecost. The Fathers generally understand that which accompanied the death of Christ; but it only implies great desolation...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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 burdens, ordinances tiresome, prayer a drudgery, in s...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. "The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet speaks here metaphorically of the punishments which were then to the people nigh at hand: and as prosperity and success deceived the Israelites, the Prophet makes use of this significative...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 8 renews the declaration, that the end of Israel was come on account of their iniquity. God would no longer pass it over. The prophet announces likewise the distress the people should come int...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS IN THAT DAY, SAITH THE LORD GOD,.... When this deluge and desolation of the land shall be, now spoken of: THAT I WILL CAUSE THE SUN TO GO DOWN AT NOON: or to he so dark as i...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day: Ver. 9. _And it shall come to pass in that day,...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _I will cause the sun to go down at noon_ Calamitous times are often expressed in the Scriptures by the failing of the light of the sun, and the day's being overspread with darkness. So Israel's sun d...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    4-10 The rich and powerful of the land were the most guilty of oppression, as well as the foremost in idolatry. They were weary of the restraints of the sabbaths and the new moons, and wished them ov...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    IT SHALL COME TO PASS, most certainly it will be, IN THAT DAY, when God begins to execute these his just and severe judgments on the ten tribes. I WILL CAUSE; the great, just, holy, and terrible God,...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Amos 8:9 day H3117 says H5002 (H8803) Lord H136 GOD H3069 sun H8121 down H935 (H8689) noon H66

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE JUDGMENT (AMOS 8:8). For these people there would be a heavy price to pay because of their sins. The land would tremble and all its inhabitants mourn. For YHWH was about to br...

  • 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). In his fourth vision Amos was shown a basket of summer fruit (e.g. figs and p...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The basket of summer fruit foretelling Israel's near ruin. Summary of the case against Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Amos. CONCLUSION: The time of God's patience draws surely to a conclusion, a...

  • 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 more. Amos 8:5. _That we may sell corn making the eph...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day._ THE ECLIPSE OF THE SUN SPIRITUALLY CONSIDERED...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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 up the mere observances of religion, yet these observa...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 8:1 In powerful word-pictures, Amos describes the final end of Israel. ⇐ ⇔...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 8:9 Israel’s destruction will be so terrible that even nature will go into mourning, with the SUN hiding its face. This is similar to the darkness that covered the earth when God’s o...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] AMOS 8:4. HEAR] The nobles hated reproof. SWALLOW] Heb. gape after, earnestly desire (Job 7:2); pant after goods as wild beasts for prey. They sought to rid the land of all the poor....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION AMOS 8:1 § 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 oppression and greed...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in chapter 8: Thus hath the Lord GOD showed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit (Amos 8:1). So now another vision, and in this vision he sees this summer fruit, apricots and peaches, pl...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Amos 4:13; Amos 5:8; Exodus 10:21; Isaiah 13:10; Isaiah 29:10;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    At noon — So Israel's sun did as at noon set under the dark cloud of conspiracies and civil wars by Shallum, Menahem, Pekah, and Hosea, 'till the midnight darkness drew on by Pul, Tiglath — Pilneser,...

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