AMOS 7:1 TO AMOS 9:8. VISIONS OF THE PROPHET AMOS. This section contains a series of visions, interrupted by a historical passage (Amos 7:10). The visions are described and then interpreted as symbolical illustrations of apostate Israel's fate.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE VISION OF THE LOCUSTS. On one occasion the prophet saw (Amos 7:1) and behold, Yahweh formed locusts at the beginning of the coming up of the late spring grass (_lekesh_, RV latter growth), the grass brought on by the late spring rain (_malkosh_,_ cf._ Joel 2:23), and further described here as co... [ Continue Reading ]
THE VISION OF FIRE. Another time the prophet saw a fire-phenomenon. Yahweh (Amos 7:4) called down a fire to punish (or judge). This devoured the great deep (Genesis 1:6 f.*), whence came the rivers and fountains, and would have devoured the tilled land, when the prophet interceded (Amos 7:5) and Yah... [ Continue Reading ]
THE VISION OF THE WALL. The third vision is more difficult. The prophet saw (Amos 7:7) and behold, Yahweh stood by a wall of -'_ anak_, and in His hand -'_ anak._ -'_ Anak_ is usually translated plummet. By a wall that had once been found perpendicular, a plummet-wall, Yahweh stood with a plummet in... [ Continue Reading ]
EFFECT OF AMOS-' PUBLIC UTTERANCES. A historical episode is here interposed. Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, interrupts the work of Amos, charging him, by twisting his words, with conspiracy (Amos 7:10). So revolutionary is he that the earth (_not_ the land) cannot bear all his words. Really he had s... [ Continue Reading ]