Amos 8:9
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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 8:9 (King James Version)
And 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:
- that I
- This is supposed to refer to an eclipse; and Abp. Usher has shown that about eleven years after Amos prophesied there were two great eclipses of the sun, one at the feast of tabernacles, and the other some time before the passover.
- 4:13 5:8 Job 5:14 ; Isaiah 13:10 ; Isaiah 29:9 Isaiah 29:10 Isaiah 59:9 Isaiah 59:10 Jeremiah 15:9 ; Micah 3:6
- Matthew 24:29 ; Revelation 6:12 ; 8:12
- and I
- Exodus 10:21-23 ; Matthew 27:45 ; Mark 15:33 ; Luke 23:44