Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, by R.A. Torrey, [ca. 1880], at sacred-texts.com
Amos Chapter 8
Overview
Amo 8:1, By a basket of summer fruit is shown the approach of Israel's end; Amo 8:4, Oppression is reproved; Amo 8:11, A famine of the word of God threatened.
Amos: Amo 7:8; Jer 1:11-14; Eze 8:6, Eze 8:12, Eze 8:17; Zac 1:18-21, Zac 5:2, Zac 5:5, Zac 5:6
A basket: Deu 26:1-4; Sa2 16:1, Sa2 16:2; Isa 28:4; Jer 24:1-3, Jer 40:10; Mic 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." Jer 1:12, Jer 5:31; Lam 4:18; Eze 7:2, Eze 3:7, Eze 3:10, Eze 12:23, Eze 29:8
I will not: Amo 7:8
the songs: Amo 8:10, Amo 5:23; Hos 10:5, Hos 10:6; Joe 1:5, Joe 1:11, Joe 1:13; Zac 11:1-3
shall be howlings: Heb. shall howl
many: Amo 4:10; Isa 37:36; Jer 9:21, Jer 9:22; Nah 3:3
they shall: Amo 6:9, Amo 6:10; Jer 22:18
with silence: Heb. be silent, Lev 10:3; Psa 39:9
Hear: Amo 7:16; Kg1 22:19; Isa 1:10, Isa 28:14; Jer 5:21, Jer 28:15
swallow: Amo 2:6, Amo 5:11; Psa 12:5, Psa 14:4, Psa 56:1, Psa 140:12; Pro 30:14; Isa 32:6, Isa 32:7; Mat 23:14; Jam 5:6
When: Num 10:10, Num 28:11-15; Kg2 4:23; Psa 81:3, Psa 81:4; Isa 1:13; Col 2:16
new moon: or, month
be gone: Mal 1:13
and the: Exo 20:8-10; Neh 13:15-21; Isa 58:13; Rom 8:6, Rom 8:7
set forth: Heb. open
making: Lev 19:36; Deu 25:13-16; Pro 11:1, Pro 16:11, Pro 20:23; Eze 45:10-12; Mic 6:10,Mic 6:11
falsifying the balances by deceit: Heb. perverting the balances of deceit, Hos 12:7
Amo 8:4, Amo 2:6; Lev 25:39-42; Neh 5:1-5, Neh 5:8; Joe 3:3, Joe 3:6
sworn: Amo 6:8; Deu 33:26-29; Psa 47:4, Psa 68:34; Luk 2:32
I will: Exo 17:16; Sa1 15:2, Sa1 15:3; Psa 10:11; Isa 43:25; Jer 17:1, Jer 31:34; Hos 7:2, Hos 8:13, Hos 9:9
the land: 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. Psa 18:7, Psa 60:2, Psa 60:3, Psa 114:3-7; Isa 5:25, Isa 24:19, Isa 24:20; Jer 4:24-26; Mic 1:3-5; Nah 1:5, Nah 1:6; Hab 3:5-8; Hag 2:6, Hag 2:7
every one: Amo 8:10, Amo 9:5; Jer 12:4; Hos 4:3, Hos 10:5; Mat 24:30
rise: Amo 9:5; Isa 8:7, Isa 8:8; Jer 46:8; Dan 9:26
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. Amo 4:13, Amo 5:8; Job 5:14; Isa 13:10, Isa 29:9, Isa 29:10, Isa 59:9, Isa 59:10; Jer 15:9; Mic 3:6; Mat 24:29; Rev 6:12, Rev 8:12
and I: Exo 10:21-23; Mat 27:45; Mar 15:33; Luk 23:44
I will turn: Amo 8:3, Amo 5:23, Amo 6:4-7; Deu 16:14; Sa1 25:36-38; Sa2 13:28-31; Job 20:23; Isa 21:3, Isa 21:4, Isa 22:12-14; Dan 5:4-6; Hos 2:11; Nah 1:10
sackcloth: Isa 15:2, Isa 15:3; Jer 48:37; Eze 7:18, Eze 27:30,Eze 27:31
as the: Jer 6:26; Zac 12:10; Luk 7:12, Luk 7:13
a bitter: Job 3:5 *marg.
but: Sa1 3:1, Sa1 28:6, Sa1 28:15; Psa 74:9; Isa 5:6, Isa 30:20,Isa 30:21; Eze 7:26; Mic 3:6; Mat 9:36
shall run: Pro 14:6; Dan 12:4; Mat 11:25-27, Mat 12:30, Mat 24:23-26; Rom 9:31-33; Rom 11:7-10; Ti2 3:6, Ti2 3:7
Deu 32:25; Psa 63:1, Psa 144:12-15; Isa 40:30, Isa 41:17-20; Jer 48:18; Lam 1:18, Lam 2:10,Lam 2:21; Hos 2:3; Zac 9:17
sin: Deu 9:21; Kg1 12:28, Kg1 12:29, Kg1 12:32, Kg1 13:22-34, Kg1 14:16, Kg1 16:24; Kg2 10:29; Hos 8:5, Hos 8:6, Hos 10:5, Hos 13:2, Hos 13:16
manner: Heb. way, Act 9:2, Act 18:25, Act 19:9, Act 19:23, Act 24:14
Beersheba: Amo 8:5
shall fall: Deu 33:11; Ch2 36:16; Psa 36:12, Psa 140:10; Pro 29:1; Isa 43:17; Jer 25:27, Jer 51:64