Amos 8:8-9

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 8:8-14

The Consequences Of The Judgment (Amos 8:8-14 ). For these people there would be a heavy price to pay because of their sins. The land would tremble and all its inhabitants mourn. For YHWH was about to bring about earth shaking events which would turn everything upside down. Amos 8:8 ‘Will not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn who dwells in it? Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; and it will be troubled and sink again, like the River of Egypt.’ The trembling of the land... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 8:4-14

Amos 8:4-2 Chronicles : . Development of the Theme of Amos 3.— This section, which re-echoes Amos 2:6-Ruth :, has been regarded as a conglomeration of rather loosely-connected fragments ( cf. G. A. Smith). The prophet addresses himself to those who persecute and destroy the needy and humble ( Amos 8:4), the ruthless and godless rich who regard holy days and Sabbaths as tiresome interruptions of business and as troublesome reproaches to their guilty conscience ( Amos 8:5), who traffic in the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Amos 8:8

Shall not the land tremble? either literally, are not such sins and judgments enough to shake the very foundations of the earth? Or, metonymically, the land for the people of it, as after in the verse, they that dwell therein. For this; this that you have done, O house of Israel, in sinning, and this that God will do in punishing, enough to melt the earth, as Psalms 46:6. And every one mourn; since every one hath sinned too much, and every one shall suffer in this approaching calamity, every... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Amos 8:9

It shall come to pass, most certainly it will be, in that day, when God begins to execute these his just and severe judgments on the ten tribes. I will cause; the great, just, holy, and terrible God, who is provoked by these sins, and hath denounced these judgments, my hand shall be evident in it. The sun; literally, say some, but erroneously; by sun I understand rather the settled state of their prosperity under their present government in the house of Jehu; or it may refer particularly to... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Amos 8:4-10

CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 8:4. Hear] The nobles hated reproof. Swallow] Heb. gape after, earnestly desire (Job 7:2); pant after goods as wild beasts for prey. They sought to rid the land of all the poor. 5 and 6 describe the method of doing this. New moon] Festivals were impatiently kept; they begrudged the regular holiday and suspension of trade (Numbers 28:11; 2 Kings 4:23). Set forth] Lit. open out to sell. Falsifying] Heb. perverting the balances of deceit (Hosea 12:7). Money was weighed. They... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Amos 8:1-14

Chapter 8Now in chapter 8:Thus hath the Lord GOD showed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit ( Amos 8:1 ).So now another vision, and in this vision he sees this summer fruit, apricots and peaches, plums, nectarines, cherries.He said, Amos what do you see? He said, I see a basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people Israel; I will not pass by them again any more. And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: and... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Amos 8:1-14

Amos 8:1 . A basket of summer fruit. The Lord would not wait till the vintage; he would cause their sun, as a nation, to set at noon, and rise no more. Amos 8:5 . That we may sell corn making the ephah small, and the shekel great. In the east they weighed money; for stamped silver passed as coin. The jews would suffer no image to appear on their money. Therefore our Saviour asked, as is noted by three evangelists, Whose image and superscription is this? Rabbi Ramban died about the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Amos 8:4-10

Amos 8:4-10Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy.AvariceI. It is execrable in its spirit.1. It is sacrilegious. Bad as Israel was, it still kept up the mere observances of religion, yet these observances they regarded as commercial inconveniences. Avarice in heart has no reverence for religion.2. It is dishonest. Always over-reaching, always cheating. It makes its fortunes out of the brain and muscles, the sweat and life of the needy.3. It is cruel. Avarice deadens all social affections.II.... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Amos 8:9

Amos 8:9And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.The eclipse of the sun spiritually consideredThough the heavens are full of the glory of the Lord, yet they rarely engage our devout attention, or make their voice so to be heard as that we notice it and listen. The sight and the music are so constantly repeated, and become so common, that they cease to impress us. It is well, then, that... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Amos 8:8

Amo 8:8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as [by] the flood of Egypt. Ver. 8. Shall not the land tremble for this ] q.d. So great are the oppressions here exercised, that the very axle of the earth is even ready to crack under them. Amaziah, that hedge priest of Bethel, had said of our prophet, that the land was not able to bear all his words, Amos 7:10 , but Amos more... read more

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