Chapter 8

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Amos 7:1, Amos 7:4, Amos 7:7


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Amos Amos 7:8; Jer 1:11-14; Ezek 8:6, Ezek 8:12, Ezek 8:17; Zech 1:18-21, Zech 5:2, Zech 5:5-6

A basket Deut 26:1-4; 2Sam 16:1-2; Isa 28:4; Jer 24:1-3, Jer 40:10; Mic 7:1

the end There is here not only an allusion to the nature of the summer fruit, which must be eaten as soon as gathered, but also a paronomasia upon the words kayitz "summer fruit," and ketz "an end." Jer 1:12, Jer 5:31; Lam 4:18; Ezek 7:2, Ezek 3:7, Ezek 3:10, Ezek 12:23, Ezek 29:8

I will not Amos 7:8


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the songs Amos 8:10, Amos 5:23; Hos 10:5-6; Joel 1:5, Joel 1:11, Joel 1:13; Zech 11:1-3

shall be howlings Heb. shall howl

many Amos 4:10; Isa 37:36; Jer 9:21-22; Nah 3:3

they shall Amos 6:9-10; Jer 22:18

with silence Heb. be silent, Lev 10:3; Ps 39:9


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Hear Amos 7:16; 1Kgs 22:19; Isa 1:10, Isa 28:14; Jer 5:21, Jer 28:15

swallow Amos 2:6, Amos 5:11; Ps 12:5, Ps 14:4, Ps 56:1, Ps 140:12; Prov 30:14; Isa 32:6-7; Matt 23:14; Jas 5:6


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When Num 10:10, Num 28:11-15; 2Kgs 4:23; Ps 81:3-4; Isa 1:13; Col 2:16

new moon or, month

be gone Mal 1:13

and the Exod 20:8-10; Neh 13:15-21; Isa 58:13; Rom 8:6-7

set forth Heb. open

making Lev 19:36; Deut 25:13-16; Prov 11:1, Prov 16:11, Prov 20:23; Ezek 45:10-12; Mic 6:10-11

falsifying the balances by deceit Heb. perverting the balances of deceit, Hos 12:7


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Amos 8:4, Amos 2:6; Lev 25:39-42; Neh 5:1-5, Neh 5:8; Joel 3:3, Joel 3:6


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sworn Amos 6:8; Deut 33:26-29; Ps 47:4, Ps 68:34; Luke 2:32

I will Exod 17:16; 1Sam 15:2-3; Ps 10:11; Isa 43:25; Jer 17:1, Jer 31:34; Hos 7:2, Hos 8:13, Hos 9:9


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the land It is supposed that an earthquake is here intended; the rising and falling of the ground, with a wave-like motion, and its leaving its proper place and bounds, in consequence of an earthquake, being justly and beautifully compared to the swelling, overflowing, and subsiding of the Nile. Ps 18:7, Ps 60:2-3, Ps 114:3-7; Isa 5:25, Isa 24:19-20; Jer 4:24-26; Mic 1:3-5; Nah 1:5-6; Hab 3:5-8; Hag 2:6-7

every one Amos 8:10, Amos 9:5; Jer 12:4; Hos 4:3, Hos 10:5; Matt 24:30

rise Amos 9:5; Isa 8:7-8; Jer 46:8; Dan 9:26


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that I This is supposed to refer to an eclipse; and Abp. Usher has shown that about eleven years after Amos prophesied there were two great eclipses of the sun, one at the feast of tabernacles, and the other some time before the passover. Amos 4:13, Amos 5:8; Job 5:14; Isa 13:10, Isa 29:9-10, Isa 59:9-10; Jer 15:9; Mic 3:6; Matt 24:29; Rev 6:12, Rev 8:12

and I Exod 10:21-23; Matt 27:45; Mark 15:33; Luke 23:44


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I will turn Amos 8:3, Amos 5:23, Amos 6:4-7; Deut 16:14; 1Sam 25:36-38; 2Sam 13:28-31; Job 20:23; Isa 21:3-4, Isa 22:12-14; Dan 5:4-6; Hos 2:11; Nah 1:10

sackcloth Isa 15:2-3; Jer 48:37; Ezek 7:18, Ezek 27:30-31

as the Jer 6:26; Zech 12:10; Luke 7:12-13

a bitter Job 3:5 *marg.


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but 1Sam 3:1, 1Sam 28:6, 1Sam 28:15; Ps 74:9; Isa 5:6, Isa 30:20-21; Ezek 7:26; Mic 3:6; Matt 9:36


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shall run Prov 14:6; Dan 12:4; Matt 11:25-27, Matt 12:30, Matt 24:23-26; Rom 9:31-33; Rom 11:7-10; 2Tim 3:6-7


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Deut 32:25; Ps 63:1, Ps 144:12-15; Isa 40:30, Isa 41:17-20; Jer 48:18; Lam 1:18, Lam 2:10, Lam 2:21; Hos 2:3; Zech 9:17


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swear Hos 4:15; Zeph 1:5

sin Deut 9:21; 1Kgs 12:28-29, 1Kgs 12:32, 1Kgs 13:22-34, 1Kgs 14:16, 1Kgs 16:24; 2Kgs 10:29; Hos 8:5-6, Hos 10:5, Hos 13:2, Hos 13:16

manner Heb. way, Acts 9:2, Acts 18:25, Acts 19:9, Acts 19:23, Acts 24:14

Beersheba Amos 8:5

shall fall Deut 33:11; 2Chr 36:16; Ps 36:12, Ps 140:10; Prov 29:1; Isa 43:17; Jer 25:27, Jer 51:64


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