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Amos 8:1
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The Lord God showed me this: a basket of summer fruit.
Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
Thus hath the Lord God shewed vnto me, and beholde, a basket of Summer fruit.
Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
This is what the Lord GOD showed me, and behold, there was a basket of summer fruit.
This is what the Lord God showed me: a basket of summer fruit.
Thus the Lord GOD showed me [a vision], and behold, there was a basket of [overripe] summer fruit.
Thus hath the Lord God shewed vnto me, & behold, a basket of summer fruite.
Thus the Lord GOD showed me, and behold, there was a basket of summer fruit.
Thus Lord Yahweh showed me, and behold, there was a basket of summer fruit.
This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.
The Lord God showed me a basket of ripe fruit
Here is what Adonai Elohim showed me: there in front of me was a basket of summer fruit.
Thus did Jehovah shew unto me; and behold, a basket of summer-fruit.
THUS has the LORD God showed me: and behold, a sign of the end.
I had another vision from the Sovereign Lord . In it I saw a basket of fruit.
My Lord Yahweh showed me this, and there was a basket of summer fruit.
The Lord Jehovah made me see this: And, behold, a basket of summer fruit!
Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me: and, behold, a basket of summer fruit.
This is what the Lord God let me see: and I saw a basket of summer fruit.
Thus the Lord GOD showed me; and behold a basket of summer fruit.
Thus hath the Lorde God shewed vnto me: and beholde, a basket of sommer fruite.
And behold a fowler’s basket.
Thus the Lord GOD shewed me: and behold, a basket of summer fruit.
Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
The Lord God schewide to me these thingis; and lo! an hook of applis.
Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and, look, a basket of summer fruit.
Thus hath the Lord GOD shown to me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
The sovereign Lord showed me this: I saw a basket of summer fruit.
Thus the Lord GOD showed me: Behold, a basket of summer fruit.
Then the Sovereign Lord showed me another vision. In it I saw a basket filled with ripe fruit.
This is what the Lord God showed me: There was a basket of summer fruit.
This is what the Lord God showed me—a basket of summer fruit.
Here, My Lord, Yahweh, gave me to see, - and lo! there was a basket of summer fruit.
These things the Lord shewed to me: and behold a hook to draw down the fruit.
Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
Thus hath the Lord Jehovah shewed me, and, lo, a basket of summer-fruit.
The LORDE God shewed me me this vision: and beholde, there was a maude with sommer frute.
My Master God showed me this vision: A bowl of fresh fruit.
Contextual Overview
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
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Then he sent out a raven. The raven flew from place to place until the ground was dry and the water was gone.
The dove could not find a place to rest because water still covered the earth, so the dove came back to the boat. Noah reached out his hand and caught the dove and brought it back into the boat.
Then Noah built an altar to honor the Lord . Noah took some of all the clean birds and some of all the clean animals and burned them on the altar as a gift to God.
As long as the earth continues, there will always be a time for planting and a time for harvest. There will always be cold and hot, summer and winter, day and night on earth."
God destroyed the cities in the valley, but he remembered what Abraham had said. So God sent Lot away from those cities before destroying them.
Then God heard Rachel's prayer and made it possible for Rachel to have children.
God heard their painful cries and remembered the agreement he made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Moses raised his hand over the Red Sea, and the Lord caused a strong wind to blow from the east. The wind blew all night long. The sea split, and the wind made the ground dry.
Then the Lord 's angel asked Balaam, "Why did you hit your donkey three times? I am the one who came to stop you. But just in time,
Early the next morning Elkanah's family got up. They worshiped the Lord and then went back home to Ramah. Elkanah had sexual relations with his wife Hannah, and the Lord remembered Hannah.
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.
