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The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:2

My people. The occurrence of this expression in such a connection as this is very amazing and very encouraging. Even when, by the mouth of his prophet, the Lord is uttering language of regretful denunciation, the prediction of sore chastisement, he still calls Israel his own! God's ways are indeed higher than our ways, and his thoughts than our thoughts. I. THIS LANGUAGE IN A REMINISCENCE OF PAST ELECTION . God called Israel his people, because he had chosen them from... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:3

The songs of the temple; Septuagint, τὰ φατνώματα τοῦ ναοῦ , "the pannels of the temple;" Vulgate, cardines templi. These versions point to a different reading. It is better rendered, "the songs of the palace," referring to the songs of the revellers mentioned already ( Amos 6:5 ). These shall be changed into howlings of lamentation for the dead which lie around (comp. Amos 8:10 ). There shall be many dead bodies . The Hebrew is more forcible: "Many the corpses: in every... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:4

The prophet, by admonishing the grandees of their iniquities, which they will not cast away, shows how ripe they are for judgment. That swallow up; better, that pant after ( Amos 2:6 , Amos 2:7 ), like a beast after its prey, eager to devour. Even to make the poor of the land to fail; and cause the meek of the land to fail. They grasp at the property of the unresisting poor, adding field to field, and impoverishing them in various ways, to root them out of the land. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:4-6

The covetous man's way. Punishment, however stern, is proportioned rigidly to sin. They answer to each other as face to face. From the contemplation of Israel's deplorable fate we turn to the horrors of her crime. And they are dark beyond exaggerating. To idolatry, dethroning God and robbing him of his glory, is added covetousness defrauding and destroying men. Indeed, the one is but a department of the other. The worst type of mammon worshipper, the covetous, is an idolater in a very real... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:4-6

Covetousness. It was not for heterodoxy in theology, it was not for remissness in ritual, that Amos chiefly reproached the Israelites. It was for injustice, violence, and robbery; it was for seeking their own wealth and luxury at the expense of the sufferings of the poor. Avarice, or undue love of worldly possessions, is a serious vice; covetousness, or the desiring to enrich self at the cost of neighbours, is something very near a crime, for to crime it too often leads. I. THE ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:4-10

Avarice. "Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land. to fail," etc. The prophet here resumes his denunciatory discourse to the avaricious oppressors of the people. The verses may be taken as God's homily to greedy men. "Hear this." Hush! pay attention to what I am going to say. Listen, "ye that swallow up the needy." The words suggest three remarks concerning avarice. I. IT IS EXECRABLE IN ITS SPIRIT . 1 . It is sacrilegious. "When... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 8:1-2

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... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 8:3

The songs of the temple shall be howlings - Literally, “shall howl.” It shall be, as when mirthful music is suddenly broken in upon, and, through the sudden agony of the singer, ends in a shriek or yell of misery. When sounds of joy are turned into wailing, all must be complete sorrow. They are not hushed only, but are turned into their opposite. Since Amos is speaking to, and of, Israel, “the temple” is, doubtless, here the great idol-temple at Bethel, and “the songs” were the choral music,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 8:4

Here ye this, ye that swallow - Or, better in the same sense, “that pant for the needy;” as Job says, “the hireling panteth for the evening” Job 7:2. They “panted for the poor,” as the wild beast for its prey; and “that to make the poor” or (better, as the Hebrew text,) “the meek” , those not poor only, but who, through poverty and affliction, are “poor in spirit” also, “to fail.” The land being divided among all the inhabitants, they, in order “to lay field to field” Isaiah 5:8, had to rid... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 8:1-2

Amos 8:1-2. Behold a basket of summer fruit This symbolically denoted that Israel’s sins were now ripe for judgment, and that as the fruit, when it is ripe, is taken from the trees, so, their iniquity being now ripe, they should be taken off the land in which they dwelt. The two Hebrew words, קוצ , kaits, summer fruit, and קצ , kets, an end, have an affinity in their sound. Such paronomasias occur in other passages of Scripture: see Isaiah 24:17; Jeremiah 1:11. Instead of summer fruit,... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:4-6

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:4-6

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:4-10

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 8:1-2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 8:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 8:4

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 8:1-2

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