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Themes in Amos 8

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Themes in Amos 8

Amos 8:1 (show verse)

Here, My Lord, Yahweh, gave me to see, - and lo! there was a basket of summer fruit.

natural Fruit » General references to
Summer » Fruits of
Symbols and similitudes » Basket of fruit
Vision » Of amos » Of summer fruit
Visions » Mentioned in scripture » To amos

Amos 8:2 (show verse)

So then he said, What canst thou see, Amos? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said Yahweh unto me, The end hath come unto my people Israel, I will not again any more forgive them;

Amos » Vision of
Food » List of articles » Fruit
Summer » Fruits of
Symbols and similitudes » Basket of fruit
Victuals » List of articles » Fruit
Vision » Of amos » Of summer fruit
Visions » Mentioned in scripture » To amos

Amos 8:3 (show verse)

but palace-songs, shall become howlings, in that day, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh, - Many shall be the dead bodies in every place - cast forth - with a hush!

Visions » Mentioned in scripture » To amos

Amos 8:4 (show verse)

Hear this, ye who pant after the needy, and to make an end of the oppressed of the land:

Visions » Mentioned in scripture » To amos

Amos 8:5 (show verse)

Who say, When will the new moon, pass away, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath that we may open grain? who diminish the ephah, and increase the shekel, and who falsify by deceitful weights:

Balances » False balance used
Feast of the new moon » Disliked by the unGodly
Injustice » Punishment of
Measure » An ephah, equal to three seah, and in liquid, to a bath, containing about a bushel and a half
Money » Value of, varied corruptly
Moon » Feast of the new moon » Traffic at the time of, prohibited
New moon » Traffic at time of, suspended
The poor » The wicked » Defraud
The sabbath » The wicked » Wearied by
Shekel » Corrupted
Visions » Mentioned in scripture » To amos

Amos 8:6 (show verse)

Who buy - for silver - the poor, and the needy for a pair of shoes, - and that the refuse of the grain we may sell.

Courts of justice » Corruption and bribery often practised in
Men » Traffic in
The poor » The wicked » Defraud
Servant » Bond » Bought and sold
Shoe » Poor people sold for a pair of
Shoes » Often given as bribes
Silver » Used for money
Visions » Mentioned in scripture » To amos

Amos 8:7 (show verse)

Sworn hath Yahweh, by the Excellency of Jacob, - Surely I will never forget any of their doings!

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Amos 8:8 (show verse)

Is it not, for this, that the land, shall tremble? and shall mourn every inhabitant therein? Shall it not come up - like the Nile, all of it, and be tossed and subside like the river of Egypt?

Egypt » Overflowed by the nile river
Egypt » Inundations of, alluded to
Injustice » Punishment of
Nile » Called the river
River Nile » Annual overflow of its banks alluded to

Amos 8:9 (show verse)

Yea it shall come to pass, in that day, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh, that I will cause the sun to go in at high noon, - and will darken the earth on a day of brightness.!

Days » Under the control of God
Eclipse » Of the sun and moon
The sun » Figurative
The sun » Illustrative » (going down at noon,) of premature destruction

So will I turn your festivals into mourning, and all your songs into a dirge, and I will bring up - on all loins - sackcloth, and upon every head - baldness, - and I will make it like the mourning for an only one, even the afterpart thereof, as a day of bitterness.

Baldness » Artificial, a sign of mourning
Israel » Under the special protection of jehovah humbled » Joy of, departed
Israel » A type of the apostate church when disobedient » Lost the joy of divine favour
Joy » Christ's joy » Israel lost the joy of divine favour
Music » Songs » Idle
Singing » Songs » Idle
Songs » Idle

Amos 8:11 (show verse)

Lo! days are coming, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh, that I will send a hunger throughout the land, - not a hunger for food, nor a thirst for water, but for hearing the words of Yahweh;

Desires » Select readings, psalms 42; 84 ps 42; 84 » Spiritual thirst, examples of
Famine » Illustrative of » A dearth of the means of grace
Famine » Figurative
Hunger » Spiritual
Judgments » Different kinds of » Famine of hearing the word
Poverty, spiritual » Destitution of the truth
Prophets » The jews » Often left without, on account of sin
national Sins » Cause the withdrawal of privileges
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Destitution of the truth
Spiritual » Poverty » Destitution of the truth
Spiritual » Tests divine methods used for testing believers » Thirst
The word of God » The time when there is a word of God famine
Thirst » Figurative of the ardent desire of the devout mind
spiritual Thirst » Examples of

Amos 8:12 (show verse)

Therefore shall men rove about - from sea to sea, and from the north even unto sunrise, - they shall run to and fro - seeking the word of Yahweh, but shall not find it .

Famine » Illustrative of » A dearth of the means of grace
Hunger » Spiritual
Prophets » The jews » Often left without, on account of sin
The word of God » The time when there is a word of God famine
Thirst » Figurative of the ardent desire of the devout mind

Amos 8:13 (show verse)

In that day, shall the fair virgins and the choice young men faint for thirst.

Dearth » Spiritual
Hunger » Spiritual
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Drought
The word of God » The time when there is a word of God famine
Thirst » Figurative of the ardent desire of the devout mind
Woman » Of distinction » Fair and graceful

Amos 8:14 (show verse)

They who swear by the Guilt of Samaria, and say, As thy God, liveth, O Dan! and, As the Way of Beer-sheba, liveth, shall fall, and shall not rise any more.

Beer-sheba » The most southern city of palestine » Became a seat of idolatrous worship
Dan » A city » A city of the tribe of dan » Idolatry established at
Idolatry » They who practice » Swear by their idols
Insecurity of the wicked » Fall of the wicked foretold
Resurrection » Who falls, and never rises up again
ancient Samaria » People of characterized as » Idolatrous
Swearing/vowing » Those that swear by idols
The word of God » The time when there is a word of God famine
The wicked » Devices of » Fall of the wicked foretold