Amos 8:8 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Amos 8:4-10

God is here contending with proud oppressors, and showing them, I. The heinousness of the sin they were guilty of; in short, they had the character of the unjust judge (Luke 18:2) that neither feared God nor regarded man. 1. Observe them in their devotions, and you will say, ?They had no reverence for God.? Bad as they are, they do indeed keep up a show and form of godliness; they observe the sabbath and the new moon; they put some difference between those days and other days, but they were... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Amos 8:8

Shall not the land tremble for this ,.... For this wickedness committed, in using the poor with so much inhumanity? may not an earthquake be expected? and which happened two years after Amos began to prophesy, Amos 1:1 ; or that the earth should gape and swallow up these men alive, guilty of such enormities? or shall not the inhabitants of the land tremble at such judgments, which the Lord hath sworn he will bring upon it? and everyone mourn that dwelleth therein ? at the hearing of... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 8:8

Shall not the land tremble for this - It is supposed that an earthquake is here intended, and that the rising up and subsiding as a flood refers to that heaving motion that takes place in an earthquake, and which the prophet here compares to the overflowing and subsiding of the waters of the Nile. But it may refer to commotions among the people. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 8:8

Verse 8 He confirms what the last verse contains in other words: and the question is emphatical, for it is a double affirmation. A question, we know, is usually put, when there is no measure of doubt on the subject. God then asks here as of a thing certain, how they could remain in safety, who had so perverted every thing right and just, who had violated all equity, who were influenced by no feelings of humanity, — how could such continue safe? It was impossible. We hence see why the Prophet... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:1-14

§ 5. In the fourth vision, the basket of summer fruit, the Lord shows that the people is ripe for judgment. Explaining this revelation, Amos denounces the oppression and greed of the chieftains (verses 4-10), and warns them that those who despise the Word of God shall some day suffer from a famine of the Word (verses 11-14). 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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:8

Shall not the land tremble for this? "This" is the coming judgment, or the oath with which God announced it in the previous verse and the prophet asks, "Shall not the land tremble as with an earthquake when the Lord comes to judgement?" The LXX ; rendering ἐπὶ τούτοις , takes the reference to be to the "works" or sins of the people ( Amos 8:7 ); but the thought in these two verses is the punishment of the transgressions, not the transgressors themselves. And it shall rise up wholly... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:8-10

Carried away as with a flood. A man in earnest is always graphic. If he be also inspired he can afford to be explicit. In this passage Amos is both. The words were spoken before the convulsions they foretell, and written after some of them had occurred. But the descriptions of events, transpired between the speaking and the writing, have no flavour of an ex post facto deliverance. There is a bare record of the original verbal utterance without the attempt to write into any part of it... read more

Albert Barnes

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

Shall not the land tremble for this? - o: “For the greater impressiveness, he ascribes to the insensate earth sense, indignation, horror, trembling. For all creation feels the will of its Creator.” “It shall rise up wholly as a flood,” literally, “like the river.” It is the Egyptian name for “river, which Israel brought with it out of Egypt, and is used either for the Nile, or for one of the artificial “trenches,” derived from it. “And it shall be cast out and drowned,” literally, “shall toss... read more

Joseph Benson

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

Amos 8:8. Shall not the land tremble Shall not the state, or government, and all the people of the land, be terribly afraid, and greatly troubled; for this This, that you have done, O house of Israel, in sinning, and this that God will do in punishing? And every one mourn that dwelleth therein Shall not all be deeply concerned and distressed, since all have sinned and deserved punishment, and all will suffer in the approaching calamity? Certainly they shall. Observe, reader, those that... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Amos 8:4-10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Amos 8:8

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 8:8

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 8:8

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:1-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:4-10

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:8

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:8-10

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

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

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