Amos 8:1

The Lord God showed to me these things; and lo! an hook of apples. (The Lord God showed me these things; and behold! a basket of summer fruit.)

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2And the Lord said, What seest thou, Amos? And I said, An hook of apples. And the Lord said to me, The end is come on my people Israel; I shall no more put to, that I pass by him. (And the Lord said, What seest thou, Amos? And I said, A basket of summer fruit + 8:2 A play on the Hebrew words for ‘summer (fruit)’ and ‘end’, which sound similar. . And the Lord said to me, The end is come for my people Israel; no more shall I pass them by.)

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Cross References

Jeremiah 24:1The Lord showed to me, and lo! two panniers full of figs were set before the temple of the Lord, after that Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, translated Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, and the princes of him, and a subtle craftsman, and a goldsmith, from Jerusalem, and brought them into Babylon. (The Lord showed to me, and behold! two baskets full of figs (were) put before the Temple of the Lord, after that Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, had carried away captive Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, and his princes, (or his leaders), and the craftsmen, and the goldsmiths, from Jerusalem, and brought them to Babylon.)

Amos 7:4The Lord God showed to me these things; and lo! the Lord God shall call doom to fire, and it shall devour much depth of water, and it ate (al)together a part. (The Lord God showed me these things; and behold! the Lord God called for judgement by fire, and it devoured a great depth of water, and it ate a part of it.)

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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