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Expositor's Bible Commentary - Amos 8:4-9

DOOM OR DISCIPLINE?Amos 8:4-9WE now enter the Third Section of the Book of Amos: chapters 7-9. As we have already treated the first part of it-the group of four visions, which probably formed the prophet’s discourse at Bethel, with the interlude of his adventure there (Amos 7:1-17 - Amos 8:3) -we may pass at once to what remains: from Amos 8:4 to the end of the book. This portion consists of groups of oracles more obscure in their relations to each other than any we have yet studied, and... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Amos 8:4-14

1. EARTHQUAKE, ECLIPSE, AND FAMINEAmos 8:4-14"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 the Sabbath, that we may open corn (by making small the measure, but large the weight, and falsifying the fraudulent balances; buying the wretched for silver, and the, needy for a pair of shoes!), and that we may sell as grain the refuse of the corn!" The parenthesis puzzles, but is not impossible:... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Amos 8:1-14

CHAPTER 8 The Fourth Vision: The Basket With Summer Fruit 1. The vision (Amos 8:1-3 ) 2. Israel ripe for judgment (Amos 8:4-10 ) 3. The coming days of famine (Amos 8:11-14 ) Amos 8:1-3 . In his fourth vision the prophet beholds a basket of summer fruit. The Hebrew shows that it was a basket filled with ripe fruit. The ripe fruit is a symbol that Israel was ripe for the harvest of judgment. The message of the Lord to the prophet is, “The end is come upon My people Israel; I will not again... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Amos 8:5

8:5 Saying, When will the {d} new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making {e} the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?(d) When the scarcity had come they were so greedy for gain, that they thought the holy day to be a hindrance to them.(e) That is, the measure small, and the price great. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Amos 8:1-14

AMOS GENERAL OVE RV IEW OF THE BOOK The opening verse shows that Amos, like Hosea, was a prophet sent to Israel, though his home, Tekoa, was in Judah. He was contemporary with Hosea for a while, though the latter prophesied longer than he. After the introduction (Amos 1:1-3 ) there follows a series of messages concerning Gentile nations (Amos 1:4 to Amos 2:3 ), each beginning with the words “For three transgressions.., and for four, I will not turn away the punishment,” an orientalism,... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Amos 8:1-14

"a Basket of Summer Fruit." Amos 8:0 "Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit" ( Amo 8:2 ). Amos continued his visions notwithstanding the rude and mendacious interruption of the false priest Amaziah who sent a lie to Jeroboam. Amos confronted the false priest, as we have just seen, boldly and destructively. You cannot reply to a thunderstorm. Anything that a man may say after a whirlwind is very feeble. We have heard the great speech of Amos, as it rolled round and round... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Amos 8:3-10

When devotion itself is out of tune by the heart being under no influences of grace; alas! what a sacrifice of fools is then offered! Sabbaths are burdens, ordinances tiresome, prayer a drudgery, in seasons like these. Oh! for grace to be always under the blessed teachings of God the Holy Ghost! read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Amos 8:5

Mouth: the first day was observed as a festival, Numbers x. 10. (Haydock) --- At the expiration of the month usurers demanded their money. (Horace, i. sat. 3.; Aristophanes, Nub. ii. 1.) --- Corn, to sell after the sabbatical year, when it was dearest. Sabbath also denotes all "festivals." These misers think that there are too many. --- Sicle. Having a large measure to buy, and a small one to sell again, Deuteronomy xxv. 13., and Proverbs xx. 10. read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Amos 8:4-10

4-10 The rich and powerful of the land were the most guilty of oppression, as well as the foremost in idolatry. They were weary of the restraints of the sabbaths and the new moons, and wished them over, because no common work might be done therein. This is the character of many who are called Christians. The sabbath day and sabbath work are a burden to carnal hearts. It will either be profaned or be accounted a dull day. But can we spend our time better than in communion with God? When employed... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Amos 8:4-14

A Last Admonition of the Lord v. 4. Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, panting after the poor in their anxiety to destroy them and to grasp their property, even to make the poor of the land to fail, in order to take their property by a show of right, v. 5. saying, When will the new moon, the day which they considered a time of enforced idleness, be gone that we may sell corn? speculating at the expense of the poorer in the land, and the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, opening... read more