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Amos 8:1

This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Summer;   Symbols and Similitudes;   Vision;   Thompson Chain Reference - Agriculture-Horticulture;   Fruit, Natural;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Visions;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Farming;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Basket;   Cage;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Amos;   Basket;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Amos;   Basket;   Vision;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Amos (1);   Basket;   Beard;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Basket;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Baskets;   Cage;   Symbol;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord God showed me this: a basket of summer fruit.
Hebrew Names Version
Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
King James Version (1611)
Thus hath the Lord God shewed vnto me, and beholde, a basket of Summer fruit.
King James Version
Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
English Standard Version
This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
New American Standard Bible
This is what the Lord GOD showed me, and behold, there was a basket of summer fruit.
New Century Version
This is what the Lord God showed me: a basket of summer fruit.
Amplified Bible
Thus the Lord GOD showed me [a vision], and behold, there was a basket of [overripe] summer fruit.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thus hath the Lord God shewed vnto me, & behold, a basket of summer fruite.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Thus the Lord GOD showed me, and behold, there was a basket of summer fruit.
Legacy Standard Bible
Thus Lord Yahweh showed me, and behold, there was a basket of summer fruit.
Contemporary English Version
The Lord God showed me a basket of ripe fruit
Complete Jewish Bible
Here is what Adonai Elohim showed me: there in front of me was a basket of summer fruit.
Darby Translation
Thus did Jehovah shew unto me; and behold, a basket of summer-fruit.
Easy-to-Read Version
This is what the Lord God showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.
George Lamsa Translation
THUS has the LORD God showed me: and behold, a sign of the end.
Good News Translation
I had another vision from the Sovereign Lord . In it I saw a basket of fruit.
Lexham English Bible
My Lord Yahweh showed me this, and there was a basket of summer fruit.
Literal Translation
The Lord Jehovah made me see this: And, behold, a basket of summer fruit!
American Standard Version
Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me: and, behold, a basket of summer fruit.
Bible in Basic English
This is what the Lord God let me see: and I saw a basket of summer fruit.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thus the Lord GOD showed me; and behold a basket of summer fruit.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thus hath the Lorde God shewed vnto me: and beholde, a basket of sommer fruite.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And behold a fowler’s basket.
English Revised Version
Thus the Lord GOD shewed me: and behold, a basket of summer fruit.
World English Bible
Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The Lord God schewide to me these thingis; and lo! an hook of applis.
Update Bible Version
Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and, look, a basket of summer fruit.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thus hath the Lord GOD shown to me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
New English Translation
The sovereign Lord showed me this: I saw a basket of summer fruit.
New King James Version
Thus the Lord GOD showed me: Behold, a basket of summer fruit.
New Living Translation
Then the Sovereign Lord showed me another vision. In it I saw a basket filled with ripe fruit.
New Life Bible
This is what the Lord God showed me: There was a basket of summer fruit.
New Revised Standard
This is what the Lord God showed me—a basket of summer fruit.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Here, My Lord, Yahweh, gave me to see, - and lo! there was a basket of summer fruit.
Douay-Rheims Bible
These things the Lord shewed to me: and behold a hook to draw down the fruit.
Revised Standard Version
Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
Young's Literal Translation
Thus hath the Lord Jehovah shewed me, and, lo, a basket of summer-fruit.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The LORDE God shewed me me this vision: and beholde, there was a maude with sommer frute.
THE MESSAGE
My Master God showed me this vision: A bowl of fresh fruit.

Contextual Overview

1This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.2"Amos, what do you see?" He asked. "A basket of summer fruit," I replied. So the LORD said to me, "The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them." 3"In that day," declares the Lord GOD, "the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Amos 7:1, Amos 7:4, Amos 7:7

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 16:1 - summer 2 Kings 8:10 - the Lord Jeremiah 24:1 - Lord

Cross-References

Genesis 8:7
and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.
Genesis 8:9
But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because water still covered the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark.
Genesis 8:20
Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. Taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Genesis 8:22
As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease."
Genesis 19:29
So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.
Genesis 30:22
Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb,
Exodus 2:24
So God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Exodus 14:21
Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were divided,
Numbers 22:32
The Angel of the LORD asked him, "Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out to oppose you, because your way is perverse before me.
1 Samuel 1:19
The next morning Elkanah and Hannah got up early to bow in worship before the LORD, and then returned home to Ramah. And Elkanah had relations with his wife Hannah, and the LORD remembered her.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 gathered at the close of the summer, when autumn began. So the Targum,

"the last of the summer fruit;''

such as were fully ripe, and would not keep till winter; or, if kept, would rot; but must be eaten directly, as some sort of apples, grapes, c. denoting the people of Israel being ripe for destruction, and would be quickly devoured by their enemies and that, as they had had a summer of prosperity, they would now have a sharp winter of adversity.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 deep waters. They close over it, and it leaves no trace. Amos had authenticated the third vision; “Thus hath the Lord God shewed me.” He resumes in the self-same calm words. The last vision declared that the end was certain; this, that it was at hand.

A basket of summer fruit - The fruit was the latest harvest in Palestine. When it was gathered, the circle of husbandry was come to its close. The sight gives an idea of completeness. The symbol, and the word expressing it, coincide. The fruit-gathering קיץ qayits, like our “crop,” was called from “cutting.” So was the word, “end,” “cutting off,” in (קץ qêts). At harvest-time there is no more to be done for that crop. Good or bad, it has reached its end, and is cut down. So the harvest of Israel was come. The whole course of God’s providences, mercies, chastenings, visitations, instructions, warnings, in spirations, were completed. “What could have been done more to My vineyard, God asks Isaiah 5:4, that I have not done in it?” “To the works of sin, as of holiness, there is a beginning, progress, completion;” a “sowing of wild oats,” as people speak, and a ripening in wickedness; a maturity of people’s plans, as they deem; a maturity for destruction, in the sight of God. There was no more to be done. heavenly influences can but injure the ripened sinner, as dew, rain, sun, but injure the ripened fruit Israel was ripe, but for destruction.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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

injustice, 4-7.

Strong and beautiful figures, by which is represented the

complete dissolution of the Israelitish polity, 8-10.

The people threatened with a most awful judgment; a FAMINE of

the word of God, 11-14.

NOTES ON CHAP. VIII

Verse Amos 8:1. A basket of summer fruit. — As summer fruit was not proper for preserving, but must be eaten as soon as gathered, so the Lord intimates by this symbol that the kingdom of Israel was now ripe for destruction, and that punishment must descend upon it without delay. Some think the prophet means the fruits at the end of autumn. And as after the autumn no fruit could be expected, so Israel's summer is gone by, her autumn is ended, and she shall yield no more fruit. Or, the autumn of her iniquity is come; the measure is filled up, and now she shall gather the fruit of her sin in the abundance of her punishment.


 
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