Amos 8:2

He 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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And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.

In Context

1This is what the Lord Yahweh showed me. Look, a basket of summer fruit!

3The songs of the temple will become wailings in that day 1 —this is the declaration of the Lord Yahweh— 1 many dead bodies, they are thrown everywhere! 1 Silence!” 1

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Cross References

Genesis 6:13God said to Noah, “I can see that it is time to put an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Indeed, I will destroy them with the earth.

2 Samuel 16:1When David had gone a short distance over the summit of the hill, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him with a couple of saddled donkeys; on them were two hundred loaves of bread, one hundred clusters of raisins, and one hundred bunches of figs, and a skin of wine.

Jeremiah 1:11The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I said, “I see an almond branch.”

Jeremiah 1:13The word of Yahweh came to me a second time, saying, “What do you see?” I said, “I see a heated pot, whose surface is churning, tipping away from the north.”

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.)

Lamentations 4:18They followed our steps, 1 we could not walk in our streets. 1 Our end was near and our days were numbered, 1 our end had come. 1

Matthew Henry on Amos 8:2-4

The Vision of Summer Fruit. ( b. c. 785.) 1 Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit. 2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the Lord unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more. 3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God : there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence. The great reason why sinners defer their… Read the whole commentary →

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