Amos 8:1
These things the Lord shewed to me: and behold a hook to draw down the fruit.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
In Context
Cross References
Jeremiah 24:1The Lord shewed me: and behold two baskets full of figs, set before the temple of the Lord: after that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried away Jechonias the son of Joakim the king of Juda, and his chief men, and the craftsmen, and engravers of Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
Amos 7:4These things the Lord God shewed to me: and behold the Lord called for judgment unto fire, and it devoured the great deep, and ate up a part at the same time.
Matthew Henry on Amos 8:1
Sinful times are here attended with sorrowful times, so necessary is the connexion between them; it is threatened here again and again that the laughter shall be turned into mourning. I. By the vision of "basket of summer-fruit" is signified the hastening on of the ruin threatened ( ver. 1-3 ) and that shall change their note. II. Oppressors are here called to an account for their abusing the poor; and their destruction is foretold, which will set them a mourning, ver. 4-10 . III. A famine of the word of God is… Read the whole commentary →