Thematic Bible
Amos 8:1 (show verse)
Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
Amos 8:2 (show verse)
He said, "Amos, what do you see?" I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the LORD said to me, "The end has come on my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.
Amos 8:3 (show verse)
The songs of the temple will be wailings in that day," says the Lord GOD. "The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.
Amos 8:4 (show verse)
Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
Amos 8:5 (show verse)
Saying, 'When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
Balances » False balance used
Feast of the new moon » Disliked by the unGodly
Injustice » Punishment of
Measure » An ephah, equal to three seah, and in liquid, to a bath, containing about a bushel and a half
Money » Value of, varied corruptly
Moon » Feast of the new moon » Traffic at the time of, prohibited
New moon » Traffic at time of, suspended
The poor » The wicked » Defraud
The sabbath » The wicked » Wearied by
Shekel » Corrupted
Visions » Mentioned in scripture » To amos
Feast of the new moon » Disliked by the unGodly
Injustice » Punishment of
Measure » An ephah, equal to three seah, and in liquid, to a bath, containing about a bushel and a half
Money » Value of, varied corruptly
Moon » Feast of the new moon » Traffic at the time of, prohibited
New moon » Traffic at time of, suspended
The poor » The wicked » Defraud
The sabbath » The wicked » Wearied by
Shekel » Corrupted
Visions » Mentioned in scripture » To amos
Amos 8:6 (show verse)
that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?'"
Amos 8:7 (show verse)
The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob, "Surely I will never forget any of their works.
No Themes for this verse.
Amos 8:8 (show verse)
Won't the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn who dwells in it? Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.
Amos 8:9 (show verse)
It will happen in that day," says the Lord GOD, "that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
Amos 8:10 (show verse)
I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.
Baldness » Artificial, a sign of mourning
Israel » Under the special protection of jehovah humbled » Joy of, departed
Israel » A type of the apostate church when disobedient » Lost the joy of divine favour
Joy » Christ's joy » Israel lost the joy of divine favour
Music » Songs » Idle
Singing » Songs » Idle
Songs » Idle
Israel » Under the special protection of jehovah humbled » Joy of, departed
Israel » A type of the apostate church when disobedient » Lost the joy of divine favour
Joy » Christ's joy » Israel lost the joy of divine favour
Music » Songs » Idle
Singing » Songs » Idle
Songs » Idle
Amos 8:11 (show verse)
Behold, the days come," says the Lord GOD, "that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD.
Desires » Select readings, psalms 42; 84 ps 42; 84 » Spiritual thirst, examples of
Famine » Illustrative of » A dearth of the means of grace
Famine » Figurative
Hunger » Spiritual
Judgments » Different kinds of » Famine of hearing the word
Poverty, spiritual » Destitution of the truth
Prophets » The jews » Often left without, on account of sin
national Sins » Cause the withdrawal of privileges
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Destitution of the truth
Spiritual » Poverty » Destitution of the truth
Spiritual » Tests divine methods used for testing believers » Thirst
The word of God » The time when there is a word of God famine
Thirst » Figurative of the ardent desire of the devout mind
spiritual Thirst » Examples of
Famine » Illustrative of » A dearth of the means of grace
Famine » Figurative
Hunger » Spiritual
Judgments » Different kinds of » Famine of hearing the word
Poverty, spiritual » Destitution of the truth
Prophets » The jews » Often left without, on account of sin
national Sins » Cause the withdrawal of privileges
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Destitution of the truth
Spiritual » Poverty » Destitution of the truth
Spiritual » Tests divine methods used for testing believers » Thirst
The word of God » The time when there is a word of God famine
Thirst » Figurative of the ardent desire of the devout mind
spiritual Thirst » Examples of
Amos 8:12 (show verse)
They will wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they will run back and forth to seek the word of the LORD, and will not find it.
Amos 8:13 (show verse)
In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men will faint for thirst.
Amos 8:14 (show verse)
Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, 'As your god, Dan, lives;' and, 'As the way of Beersheba lives;' they will fall, and never rise up again."
Beer-sheba » The most southern city of palestine » Became a seat of idolatrous worship
Dan » A city » A city of the tribe of dan » Idolatry established at
Idolatry » They who practice » Swear by their idols
Insecurity of the wicked » Fall of the wicked foretold
Resurrection » Who falls, and never rises up again
ancient Samaria » People of characterized as » Idolatrous
Swearing/vowing » Those that swear by idols
The word of God » The time when there is a word of God famine
The wicked » Devices of » Fall of the wicked foretold
Dan » A city » A city of the tribe of dan » Idolatry established at
Idolatry » They who practice » Swear by their idols
Insecurity of the wicked » Fall of the wicked foretold
Resurrection » Who falls, and never rises up again
ancient Samaria » People of characterized as » Idolatrous
Swearing/vowing » Those that swear by idols
The word of God » The time when there is a word of God famine
The wicked » Devices of » Fall of the wicked foretold