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CHAPTER VIII
_This chapter begins with a fourth vision denoting the certainty_
_and nearness of the destruction of Israel_, 1-3.
_The prophet then proceeds to reprove their oppression and_
_injust...
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THUS HATH THE LORD GOD SHOWED ME - The sentence of Amaziah pronounced,
Amos resumes just where he left off, before Amaziah broke in upon him.
His vehement interruption is like a stone cast into the de...
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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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THE VISION OF THE BASKET OF SUMMER FRUIT. The account of the visions
is now resumed. This time the prophet sees a basket of summer fruit
(Amos 8:1), and Yahweh explains (Amos 8:2) that the summer frui...
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THE LORD GOD. Heb, Adonai Jehovah. See note on Amos 1:8
SUMMER FRUIT. Hebrew kayitz. ripe, "summer" being put by Figure of
speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for ripe fruits characterizing
the sum...
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Amos 8:1 to Amos 9:11. The visions resumed.
Amos 8:1-14. The fourth vision (Amos 8:1-3). The basket of summer
fruit.
1. _Thus_ DID the Lord
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_THE VISION OF SUMMER FRUIT -- AMOS 8:1-3:_ Several times in the Book
of Amos the prophet describe visions shown to him by God. Here the
Lord showed him a basket of ripe summer fruit. The ripe fruit c...
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A BASKET OF SUMMER FRUIT— _Of autumnal fruit;_ or, "Of the last
season of the year." Houbigant; and so in the next verse, where,
instead of _the end,_ he reads the _last end,_ keeping up the
allusion,...
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CAUSES OF JUDGMENT PROPHESIEDGOD'S LONGSUFFERING HAS EXPIRED
TEXT: Amos 8:1-6
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Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me: and, behold, a basket of summer
fruit.
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And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I...
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Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer
fruit. BEHOLD A BASKET OF SUMMER FRUIT - "summer fruit;" Hebrew,
Kaitz. In Amos 8:2, "end" is in the Hebrew Keetz. The similarity...
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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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The visions are resumed as though the priest at Bethel had trembled at
the presence of Amos, and had ceased to persecute him. There is a
remarkable play of words, _qaits_ being the Hebrew for “summer...
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כֹּ֥ה הִרְאַ֖נִי אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֑ה וְ
הִנֵּ֖ה...
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5. THE PROPHET AND HIS MINISTRY
Amos 7:1 - Amos 8:1
We have seen the preparation of the Man for the Word; we have sought
to trace to its source the Word which came to the Man. It now remains
for us...
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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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_Hook. Hebrew, "basket of summer fruit." Septuagint, "bird cage or
net." (Haydock) --- Israel was ripe for destruction, ver. 2., and
chap. vii. 8. (Calmet) --- Not only those who were near, (4 Kings x...
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CONTENTS
The Prophet is here again in this Chapter instructing by figure. By a
basket of summer-fruit is shown the state of Israel. The Chapter
closeth with the threatenings of famine....
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By the similitude of summer-fruit, which of course as soon as it
ripens hastens to decay, is shewn, in a lively representation, the
transitory state of all men; not only Israel, but all flesh: for all...
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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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By these words or by this vision the Prophet confirms what we have
already observed — that paternal chastisements would no longer be
exercised towards the people of Israel. God indeed, as it is well
k...
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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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THUS HATH THE LORD GOD SHOWED UNTO ME,.... Another vision, which is
the fourth, and after the following manner:
AND, BEHOLD, A BASKET OF SUMMER FRUIT; not of the first ripe fruit,
but of such as were...
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Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer
fruit.
Ver. 1. _Thus hath the Lord God showed unto me_] viz. in this fourth
vision, whereby (for better assurance, and to shake th...
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_Behold a basket of summer fruit_ This symbolically denoted that
Israel's sins were now ripe for judgment, and that as the fruit, when
it is ripe, is taken from the trees, so, their iniquity being now...
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THE VISION OF THE BASKET OF SUMMER-FRUIT....
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Thus hath the Lord God showed unto me, in another vision revealing the
fate of Israel, AND BEHOLD A BASKET OF SUMMER-FRUIT, dead ripe, ready
to be consumed....
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1-3 Amos saw a basket of summer fruit gathered, and ready to be
eaten; which signified, that the people were ripe for destruction,
that the year of God's patience was drawing towards a conclusion. Su...
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AMOS CHAPTER 8 By a basket of summer fruit is showed the near approach
of Israel's end, AMOS 8:1. Their oppression of the poor shall cause
their joy to be turned into mourning, AMOS 8:4. A famine of G...
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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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THE VISION OF APPROACHING JUDGMENT (AMOS 8:1).
Amos 8:1
‘ Thus the Lord YHWH showed me, and, behold, a basket of summer
fruit.'
Once more we have emphasis on ‘the Lord YHWH'. The One Who was Lord
ov...
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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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_A basket of summer fruit._
A BASKET OF SUMMER FRUIT
As God set before Amos a basket of summer fruit, as a sign or parable
concerning Israel; so, at harvest-tide God sets before us a basket of
summe...
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A BASKET OF SUMMER FRUIT
Behold, a basket of summer fruit. Amos 8:1.
If any of you children chanced to go to Ayrshire in summer and found
yourselves near a place called Alloway, you would meet touri...
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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.] The visions continued from ch. Amos 7:9
AMOS 8:2. SUMMER] Late fruit, fully ripe (2 Samuel 16:1; Micah 7:1); a
symbol of a people ripe for judg
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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 7:1; Amos 7:4; Amos 7:7...