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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.
This is what the Lord God showed me: I saw 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.
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
Cross-References
and sent out a raven; it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.
The dove could not find a resting place for its feet because water still covered the surface of the entire earth, and so it returned to Noah in the ark. He stretched out his hand, took the dove, and brought it back into the ark.
Noah built an altar to the Lord . He then took some of every kind of clean animal and clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
"While the earth continues to exist, planting time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease."
So when God destroyed the cities of the region, God honored Abraham's request. He removed Lot from the midst of the destruction when he destroyed the cities Lot had lived in.
Then God took note of Rachel. He paid attention to her and enabled her to become pregnant.
God heard their groaning, God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob,
Moses stretched out his hand toward the sea, and the Lord drove the sea apart by a strong east wind all that night, and he made the sea into dry land, and the water was divided.
The angel of the Lord said to him, "Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? Look, I came out to oppose you because what you are doing is perverse before me.
They got up early the next morning and after worshiping the Lord , they returned to their home at Ramah. Elkanah had marital 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.
