Amos 8:2
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| Overview - Amos 8 | |
| 1 | By a basket of summer fruit is shown the approach of Israel's end. |
| 4 | Oppression is reproved. |
| 11 | A famine of the word of God threatened. |
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Amos 8:2 (King James Version)
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.
- Amos
- 7:8 Jeremiah 1:11-14 ; Ezekiel 8:6 Ezekiel 8:12 Ezekiel 8:17 ; Zechariah 1:18-21 ; Zechariah 5:2 Zechariah 5:5 Zechariah 5:6
- A basket
- Deuteronomy 26:1-4 ; 2 Samuel 16:1 2 Samuel 16:2 ; Isaiah 28:4 ; Jeremiah 24:1-3 ; 40:10 Micah 7:1
- the end
- There is here not only an allusion to the nature of the summer fruit, which must be eaten as soon as gathered, but also a paronomasia upon the words {kayitz,} "summer fruit," and {ketz,} "an end."
- Jeremiah 1:12 ; 5:31 Lamentations 4:18 ; Ezekiel 7:2 ; Ezekiel 3:7 Ezekiel 3:10 12:23 29:8
- I will not
- 7:8