Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadMatthew Poole Commentary - Amos 8:1 - 8:1
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
AMOS CHAPTER 8
By a basket of summer fruit is showed the near approach of Israel’s end, Amo_8:1-3. Their oppression of the poor shall cause their joy to be turned into mourning, Amo_8:4-10. A famine of God’s word threatened, Amo_8:11-14.
Thus hath the Lord God showed unto me: and behold: see Amo_7:1,4,7.
A basket; a hook, say some, with which the gatherer might either pull down the bough, or pull off the ripe fruit; or a basket into which the ripe fruit gathered was put to be carried away.
Summer fruit; not the early ripe fruit, but that which, as it needed, so had the whole summer’s heat to ripen it, and was gathered in at the end of the summer.