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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Amos 7:8

Pass by them. — In the sense of sparing. There will come a time when prayer will be of no avail. All intercessions, however passionate or eager, will be too late. The door of mercy is shut.

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See also Amos 7:8 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Amos 7:8. _I WILL SET A PLUMBLINE_] I will visit them by _justice_ without any mixture of _mercy_....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AMOS, WHAT SEEST THOU? - o: “He calls the prophet by name, as a familiar friend, known and approved by Him, as He said to Moses, “I know thee by name” Exodus 33:12, Exodus 33:17. For “the Lord knoweth...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    III. THE FIVE VISIONS OF THE PROPHET CHAPTER 7 Three Visions and the Opposition Against Amos _ 1. The vision of locusts (Amos 7:1) _ 2. The vision concerning the fire (Amos 7:4) 3. The vision of...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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 plumm...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    AMOS. Note this personal touch. SET, &c. i.e. measure [the doings of Israel] with the plummet of righteousness AND JUDGMENT. Compare 2 Kings 21:12.Isaiah 28:17; Isaiah 34:11.

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The third vision. The plumb-line. Here Amos does not see the calamity itself, but only the symbol that it is decreed (cf. the almond-tree, and the seething pot, in Jeremiah 1:11; Jeremiah 1:13)....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _what seest thou?_ The question is addressed to Amos for the purpose of attaching the explanation of the symbol to the answer, which he is naturally expected to give correctly (exactly Song of Solomon...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _THE VISION OF THE PLUMB LINE -- AMOS 7:7-9:_ The third vision was that of the Lord Himself standing on a wall with a plumb line in His hand. The plumb line had been used to measure the straightness o...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PROPHECIES PRESENTED, Chapter S 7-9 CAUSES OF JUDGMENT PROPHESIEDNOT ALIGNED WITH GOD'S STANDARD TEXT: Amos 7:1-9 1 Thus the Lord, Jehovah showed me: and, behold, he formed locusts in the beginning...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THREE VISIONS AND AN INTERRUPTION 1-9. The visions. 10-17. The interruption. There are two senses in which the word 'Vision' may be used of one of the forms of Hebrew prophecy. In the first sense a...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 7 V1 This is what the *Lord the Ruler showed me. He was preparing a large number of *locusts....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֜ה אֵלַ֗י מָֽה ־אַתָּ֤ה רֹאֶ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE HERDSMAN'S MESSAGE Amos 7:1-17 The _king's mowings_ were the earliest yield of the grasslands, which were exacted by him. Our King also has His mowings, when He takes to Himself our dearest and...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In this division the prophet gave a fivefold vision of judgment, introduced in the first four cases by the words, "The Lord God showed me." The last vision was of Jehovah Himself. The vision of the lo...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Plaster. Septuagint, "I will no more pass over it," the adamantine wall. I will hide their faults no longer. (Haydock) --- this third vision alluded to the distress of the ten tribes, 4 Kings xv. 20....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    We have here a third sermon of the Prophet in figure, and to the same amount as the former. The similitude of measuring is adopted, and probably it was here meant to shew the time limited thereby for...

  • 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

    But that which follows has an important meaning: God asks his Prophet, _What sees thou, Amos? _It is probable that the Prophet was astonished at a thing so mysterious. When locusts were formed, and wh...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    God had long waited patiently. More than once He had been on the point of giving Israel up to judgment. The intercession of the prophet, that is to say, of the Spirit of Christ which wrought in the pr...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THE LORD SAID UNTO ME, AMOS, WHAT SEEST THOU?.... This question was put to him, the rather, since he was silent, and did not upon this vision, as the former, make any supplication to the Lord; as...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:...

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

    _The Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumb-line_ A wall strongly and beautifully built. God's judgments are sometimes represented in Scripture by a line and a plummet, to denote that they are measure...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And the Lord said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? the purpose of the question being to impress the importance of the vision upon the prophet's mind. AND I SAID, A PLUMB-LINE. THEN SAID THE LORD, BEHOL...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE VISIONS OF THE GRASSHOPPERS, OF THE FIRE, AND OF THE PLUMB-LINE....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-9 God bears long, but he will not bear always with a provoking people. The remembrance of the mercies we formerly received, like the produce of the earth of the former growth, should make us submis...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE LORD, who did before show Amos the emblem in landscape or vision. WHAT SEEST THOU? this God asketh not as if he were ignorant what Amos saw, or as if he would be informed whether he saw aright, bu...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Amos 7:8 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) Amos H5986 see H7200 (H8802) said H559 (H8799) line H594

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE THIRD VISION. THE VISION OF THE PLUMB-LINE AND THE RESULTING RESPONSE (AMOS 7:7). In this third vision YHWH carried some kind of measuring device as He stood beside a wall, presumably with the pur...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FOUR VISIONS (AMOS 7:1 TO AMOS 8:14). In a similar way to the seven judgments in Amos 1:2 to Amos 2:5, followed by the expanded judgment on Israel, which all initially follo

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    PLUMBLINE Symbol of judgment according to righteousness....

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Threatening judgments. The prophet's intercession no longer to prevail. Amos charged before the king and his answer. CHARACTERS: God, Amos, Amaziah, Jeroboam. CONCLUSION: God's patience, wh...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Amos 7:1. _He formed grasshoppers,_ which are the same as the locusts. _After the king's mowings._ It is supposed that the first grass, or the proud corn cut with the scythe, was a tribute to the king...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in His hand._ GOD IN RELATION TO HUMAN WORK All men are workers, the world is “full of labour.” The words suggest two facts in relat...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 7:1 Visions of Judgment. In the final section of the book, Amos turns from speech to sight. He tells of visions he has received from God that confirm the nation’s situation. The firs...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 7:7 The third picture that God SHOWED Amos was of a PLUMB LINE held against a WALL. A plumb line is a string with a weight fastened to its end. When the string is placed b

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] SHOWED] three visions in this ch. LOCUSTS (Amos 7:1) the first; “all inward tuitions produced by the Spirit of God, which set forth the primitive judgments of God” [_Keil_]. BEGIN.] T...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION VERSE 1-CH. 9:10 Part III. FIVE VISIONS, WITH EXPLANATIONS, CONTINUING AND CONFIRMING THE PREVIOUS PROPHECY. The afflictions are climactic, increasing in intensity. The first two symbolize...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now the Lord showed unto Amos certain judgments whereby He could bring His judgment against Israel. These were shown to Amos, no doubt, in the form of a vision. And thus hath the Lord GOD showed unto...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Amos 8:2; Ezekiel 7:2; Jeremiah 1:11; Jeremiah 15:6; Lamentations 2:8

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Set a plumb — line — I will exactly measure the whole ten tribes. Pass by them — I will no more forbear, but will pull down all that is faulty....

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