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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 8:3

Amos 8:3. And the songs of the temple shall be howlings, &c. Houbigant renders it, And the singers of the palace shall howl, the word היכל , signifying palace as well as temple; and as Amos prophesied against Israel, not against Judah, the temple, properly so called, could not be meant here. There shall be many dead bodies in every place In cities, towns, and the country; in all places shall the bloody effects produced by the enemies’ sword, and by famine and pestilence, be... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 8:4-6

Amos 8:4-6. Hear, O ye that swallow up the needy That greedily and cruelly devour such as would have been objects of your compassion, had you been just and merciful as well as rich and great. He alludes to the greater fish swallowing up the lesser. To make the poor of the land to fail Either to root them out or to enslave them. Saying, When will the new- moon be gone This was one of their solemn feasts, the use of which they retained with their idolatrous worship; that we may sell... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Amos 8:1-14

Israel nears its end (8:1-14)Just as the harvest comes to an end and the fruit is gathered into baskets, so Israel has come to its end and will be punished. Celebration will be turned to mourning, and hope will be replaced by despair. When the enemy attacks, the slaughter will be so extensive that bodies will lie unburied in the streets and fields for days (8:1-3).Amos returns to conditions in Israel to indicate that one reason for the nation’s downfall is the upper classes’ exploitation of the... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Amos 8:1

the Lord GOD. Heb, Adonai Jehovah. See note on Amos 1:8 summer fruit. Hebrew kayitz = ripe, "summer" being put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6 , for ripe fruits characterizing the summer. Compare 2 Samuel 16:2 .Jeremiah 40:12 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Amos 8:2

Amos. See note on Amos 7:8 . summer fruit . . . The end . Note the Figure of speech Paronomasia ( App-6 ), for emphasis. Compare Jeremiah 1:11 , Jeremiah 1:12 . Hebrew. kayitz hakketz, meaning that ripe was the fruit; ripe will be the time the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4 . IT. The end. See note above. pass by = forgive, as in Amos 7:8 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Amos 8:3

temple. The 1611 edition of the Authorized Version reads temples". be = become, saith the Lord GOD = [is] Adonai. Jehovah's oracle. dead bodies = corpses. See notes on Amos 6:9 , Amos 6:10 . cast them forth , i.e. and burn them. with silence = with "Hush! "as in Amos 6:10 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Amos 8:4

swallow up = devour. the needy = a needy one. Hebrew 'ebyon. See note on ' poverty", Proverbs 6:11 . make. to fail = destroy, or cause to cease. the poor = meek ones. Hebrew 'amah, See note on "poverty", Proverbs 6:11 , read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Amos 8:1

Amos, having effectively disposed of the interruption by Amaziah, proceeded to deliver his sermon. The first four visions actually occur in pairs, the two first being of disasters averted through prayer, and the next two announcing the summary and forthcoming end of Israel, the first of these (the third) having already been delivered. This fourth one, therefore (Amos 8:1-3) is not a recapitulation of the third, nor the introduction of any startling new element. Amos' denunciation continued as... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Amos 8:4

"Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail."Well, what has this to do with worshipping other gods? It was a condition brought about by the rejection on the part of Israel of the allocation of the land on the basis of inheritance, in order to prevent the very type of landed aristocracy with a heartless disregard of the poor, which had replaced the theocratic arrangement given by the Lord when Israel entered Canaan. Their rebellion against God by... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Amos 8:1

Amos 8:1. A basket of summer fruit— Of autumnal fruit; or, "Of the last season of the year." Houbigant; and so in the next verse, where, instead of the end, he reads the last end, keeping up the allusion, and the expressive play of the words קצ keits, and קיצ kaiits, in the original: whereby is signified, that as, after the autumnal fruits, no others are produced from the earth, or gathered from the tree; so it shall come to pass that the kingdom of Israel shall no more produce any fruit, nor... read more

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 8:3

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 8:4-6

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Amos 8:1-14

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Amos 8:1

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Amos 8:2

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Amos 8:3

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Amos 8:4

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Amos 8:1

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Amos 8:4

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Amos 8:1

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