Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 8

50 catchwords403 parallels

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Amos 8 . 1 , By a basket of summer fruit is shown the approach of Israel’s end; Amos 8 . 4 , Oppression is reproved; Amos 8 . 11 , A famine of the word of God threatened.

Amos 8:1

This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.

Amos 8:1 · BSB

the whole verse3 parallels

Reciprocal3 parallels

Amos 8:2

"Amos, what do you see?" He asked. "A basket of summer fruit," I replied. So the LORD said to me, "The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them."

Amos 8:2 · BSB

Amos9 parallels

A basket7 parallels

the end8 parallels

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."

I will not1 parallel

Reciprocal11 parallels

Amos 8:3

“In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!”

Amos 8:3 · BSB

the songs8 parallels

many5 parallels

they shall3 parallels

with silence2 parallels

Heb. be silent

Reciprocal10 parallels

shall be howlings Heb. shall howl

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,

Amos 8:4 · BSB

Hear6 parallels

swallow11 parallels

Reciprocal29 parallels

Amos 8:5

asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.

Amos 8:5 · BSB

When7 parallels

be gone1 parallel

and the5 parallels

making8 parallels

falsifying the balances by deceit1 parallel

Heb. perverting the balances of deceit

Reciprocal11 parallels

new moon or , month

set forth Heb. open

Amos 8:6

Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”

Amos 8:6 · BSB

the whole verse7 parallels

Reciprocal10 parallels

Amos 8:7

The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.

Amos 8:7 · BSB

sworn5 parallels

I will10 parallels

Reciprocal13 parallels

Amos 8:8

Will not the land quake for this, and all its dwellers mourn? All of it will swell like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt.

Amos 8:8 · BSB

the land14 parallels

It is supposed that an earthquake is here intended; the rising and falling of the ground , with a wave-like motion , and its leaving its proper place and bounds , in consequence of an earthquake , being justly and beautifully compared to the swelling , overflowing , and subsiding of the Nile

every one6 parallels

rise5 parallels

Reciprocal8 parallels

Amos 8:9

And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.

Amos 8:9 · BSB

that I13 parallels

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

and I4 parallels

Reciprocal13 parallels

Amos 8:10

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.

Amos 8:10 · BSB

I will turn13 parallels

sackcloth6 parallels

as the4 parallels

a bitter1 parallel

Reciprocal23 parallels

Amos 8:11

Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.

Amos 8:11 · BSB

but10 parallels

Reciprocal13 parallels

Amos 8:12

People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east, seeking the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.

Amos 8:12 · BSB

shall run9 parallels

Reciprocal11 parallels

Amos 8:13

In that day the lovely young women—the young men as well—will faint from thirst.

Amos 8:13 · BSB

the whole verse11 parallels

Reciprocal2 parallels

Amos 8:14

Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’ or, ‘As surely as the way of Beersheba lives’—they will fall, never to rise again.”

Amos 8:14 · BSB

swear2 parallels

sin13 parallels

manner5 parallels

Heb. way

Beersheba1 parallel

shall fall8 parallels

Reciprocal14 parallels

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge is the classical cross-reference layer — centuries of catchword parallels beneath the site’s quotations, allusions, and echoes. Every reference above also flows into the wider web of connections.

In the wider web5 threads
Intertextuality Pairs
Echoes Luke 21:20-24 → Amos 8:9, Amos 8:2 → Ezekiel 7:2, Amos 8:2 → Ezekiel 7:3, Amos 8:2 → Ezekiel 7:6
Chiasms
Shaped Amos 8:4–7
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