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Verse Amos 8:8. _SHALL NOT THE LAND TREMBLE FOR THIS_] It is supposed
that an _earthquake_ is here intended, and that the _rising up_ and
_subsiding as a flood_ refers to that _heaving motion_ that t...
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SHALL NOT THE LAND TREMBLE FOR THIS? - o: “For the greater
impressiveness, he ascribes to the insensate earth sense, indignation,
horror, trembling. For all creation feels the will of its Creator.”
“I...
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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)...
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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...
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FLOOD. Hebrew. _or_. Referring to the overflowing of the Nile.
DROWNED. subside....
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A fresh denunciation of Israel's sin, followed by a fresh picture of
the impending calamities....
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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...
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_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...
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AND SHALL RISE UP, &C.— _And destruction shall rise up like a flood;
and it shall be dissolved and drowned as by the river of Egypt._ The
prophet here refers to the great earthquake, whereof he spoke...
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DESCRIPTION OF JUDGMENTS PROPHESIEDBITTER MOURNING
TEXT: Amos 8:7-10
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Jehovah hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never
forget any of their works.
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Shall not the land tremble f...
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Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that
dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall
be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
SHALL NOT THE...
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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...
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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...
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SHALL NOT THE LAND...? — The rendering should be, _The whole of it
rises as the Nile, surges and subsides_ (or _sinks_)_ as the Egyptian
Nile._ The solid land shall rise up in earthquake, like the Nil...
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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...
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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...
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COMMON SENSE AND THE REIGN OF LAW
Amos 3:3; Amos 4:6; Amos 5:8; Amos 6:12; Amos 8:8;...
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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...
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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...
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Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth
therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast
out and (f) drowned, as [by] the flood of Egypt.
(f) That...
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_Altogether. Septuagint, "its total ruin shall rise as a river." ---
Egypt. The whole land shall be visited with misery, as Egypt is by the
Nile. (Haydock) --- The enemy shall retire with the booty. T...
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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...
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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...
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He confirms what the last verse contains in other words: and the
question is emphatical, for it is a double affirmation. A question, we
know, is usually put, when there is no measure of doubt on the
s...
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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...
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SHALL NOT THE LAND TREMBLE FOR THIS,.... For this wickedness
committed, in using the poor with so much inhumanity? may not an
earthquake be expected? and which happened two years after Amos began
to p...
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Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth
therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast
out and drowned, as [by] the flood of Egypt.
Ver. 8. _Shal...
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_Shall not the land tremble_ Shall not the state, or government, and
all the people of the land, be terribly afraid, and greatly troubled;
_for this This_, that you have done, O house of Israel, in si...
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Shall not the land tremble for this, for the deeds of such
conscienceless scoundrels, AND EVERY ONE MOURN THAT DWELLETH THEREIN?
namely, on account of the force of the Lord's punishment. AND IT SHALL...
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A LAST ADMONITION OF THE LORD...
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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...
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SHALL NOT THE LAND TREMBLE? either literally, are not such sins and
judgments enough to shake the very foundations of the earth? Or,
metonymically, the land for the people of it, as after in the verse...
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Amos 8:8 land H776 tremble H7264 (H8799) mourn H56 (H8804) dwells
H3427 (H8802) swell H5927 (H8
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 8:1 In powerful word-pictures, Amos describes the
final end of Israel.
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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....
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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...
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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...
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Amos 9:5; Amos 8:10; Amos 9:5; Daniel 9:26; Habakkuk 3:5;...
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The land — The people of it. For this — This that you have done,
and this that God will do. And it — The judgment, the displeasure of
God, shall rise and grow like a mighty wasting flood. It — The lan...