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Verse Amos 8:14. _BY THE SIN OF SAMARIA_] _Baal_, who was worshipped
here.
_THY GOD, O DAN_] The golden calf, or ox, the representative of the
Egyptian god Apis, or Osiris.
_THE MANNER OF BEER-SHEB...
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WHO SWEAR - Literally, “the swearing,” they who habitually swear.
He assigns, at the end, the ground of all this misery, the forsaking
of God. God had commanded that all appeals by oath should be made...
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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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SIN.. guilt., trespass. Hebrew asham. App-44. Put by Figure of speech
_Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for the idol itself.
DAN... BEER-SHEBA. The two places where the calves were set up (1
Kings 12:26)...
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A fresh denunciation of Israel's sin, followed by a fresh picture of
the impending calamities....
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_They that swear_…; _even they shall fall_ better, _Who
swear_(connecting with Amos 8:13) …; _and they shall fall_&c.
_swear by the_ GUILT _of Samaria_ Men _swear_by that which they
revere: the Israel...
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_A FAMINE FOR THE WORD OF GOD -- AMOS 8:11-14:_ God promised a
horrible famine in the land. It would not be a shortage of food and
water. The people would be hungry and thirsty to hear the word of God...
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THEY THAT SWEAR BY THE SIN OF SAMARIA— The calf set up at Beth-el by
Jeroboam. Instead of, _The manner of Beer-sheba,_ Houbigant reads very
properly, _Thy god, O Beer-sheba!_ Compare chap. Amos 5:5.
R...
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DESCRIPTION OF JUDGMENTS PROPHESIEDSPIRITUAL FAMINE
TEXT: Amos 8:11-14
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Behold, the days come, saith the Lord Jehovah, that I will send a
famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst f...
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They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan,
liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and
never rise up again.
THEY THAT SWEAR BY THE SIN OF SAMARIA - n...
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8:14 sin (d-6) Elsewhere also 'trespass.'...
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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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THY GOD, O DAN, LIVETH. — Translate, _By the life of thy God, O Dan,
and by the life of the way of Beersheba._ On such forms of oath, see
Note on Amos 6:8. The “way of Beersheba” was the ritual practi...
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הַ נִּשְׁבָּעִים֙ בְּ אַשְׁמַ֣ת
שֹֽׁמְרֹ֔ון וְ...
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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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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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_Sin. Septuagint, "propitiation," which the pagans deemed requisite;
(Horace, i. ode 2.) or worship (Haydock) of Baal, (4 Kings xvii. 16.;
Calmet) and all the other superstitions. (Haydock) --- Way.
S...
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What an awful sound is here! And how dreadfully awful in that land,
that parish, that people, that family, or person, in whom it is
fulfilled. A famine of bread the common staff of life is distressing...
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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 afterwards mentions the reason why the Lord would inflict such
punishments on his people; it was, because they had prostituted
themselves to wicked superstitions; _They swear, _he says, _by the sin...
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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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THEY THAT SWEAR BY THE SIN OF SAMARIA,.... The calf at Bethel, which
was near Samaria, and which the Samaritans worshipped; and was set up
by their kings, and the worship of it encouraged by their exa...
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They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan,
liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and
never rise up again.
Ver. 14. _They that swear by the sin of Sam...
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_They that swear by the sin of Samaria_ That is, by the calf which
Jeroboam set up as an object of _worship_ at Beth-el, not far from
Samaria, committing a great sin in so doing, and making Israel to...
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They that swear by the sin of Samaria, namely, the golden calf of
Bethel, AND SAY, THY GOD, O DAN, the other golden calf in the extreme
northern city of Canaan, LIVETH; AND, THE MANNER OF BEERSHEBA LI...
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A LAST ADMONITION OF THE LORD...
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11-14 Here was a token of God's highest displeasure. At any time, and
most in a time of trouble, a famine of the word of God is the heaviest
judgment. To many this is no affliction, yet some will fee...
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THEY THAT SWEAR BY; who now do, as formerly they have done, trust in,
sacrifice to, and swear by; who are obstinate idolaters, and trust to
those lies. THE SIN, that which was the sin, the occasion of...
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Amos 8:14 swear H7650 (H8737) sin H819 Samaria H8111 say H559 (H8804)
god H430 lives H2416 Dan...
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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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AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 8:1 In powerful word-pictures, Amos describes the
final end of Israel.
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AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 8:13 Israel had depended on their paganized ideas
of Yahweh, represented by the idols at Samaria and DAN, or on the
ancestral tradition of Yahweh at BEERSHEBA (see...
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_HOMILETICS_
CRITICAL NOTES.]
AMOS 8:11. FAMINE] The light and comfort of God’s word shall fail;
they despise now what they shall look for in vain then.
AMOS 8:12. WANDER] Lit. reel, like drunken m...
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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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1 Kings 12:28; 1 Kings 12:29; 1 Kings 12:32; 1 Kings 13:22;...
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They — Who sacrifice to and swear by the calves at Dan and Beth —
el. By the sin — Who say the idol at Dan is the true and living God.
The manner — The idol which is worshipped at Beersheba....
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Does this contradict the Bible’s teaching on the resurrection?
(See comments on Job 7:9)...