Amos 8:1

This is what the Lord Yahweh showed me. Look, a basket of summer fruit!

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Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.

In Context

2He said, “What do you see, Amos?” I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then Yahweh said to me, 1 “The end has come for my people Israel; 1 I will spare them no longer. 1

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Cross References

Jeremiah 24:1Yahweh showed me something. Behold, two baskets of figs were placed before Yahweh's temple. (This vision happened after Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, took into exile Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, the officials of Judah, the craftsmen and the metalworkers from Jerusalem and brought them to Babylon.)

Amos 7:4This is what the Lord Yahweh showed me: Look, the Lord Yahweh called on fire to judge. It dried the vast, deep water under the earth and would have devoured the land, also.

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 →

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