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Feb 15, 2023 · We typically understand a famine as a lack of food or water, but Amos 8:11 speaks cryptically of a famine of the hearing of the Word of God: “‘The days are coming,’ declares the Sovereign Lord, ‘when I will send a famine through the land—not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.’”
- Amos 5
The people of Amos’s day claimed to follow God with their...
- Amos 5
Amos 8:11. Behold the days come, saith the Lord — This is spoken of events which were yet at some distance. That I will send a famine in the land, not of bread, &c., but of hearing the words of the Lord — When Amos prophesied, and for a considerable time after, there were several prophets, and abundant opportunities of hearing the word of the Lord, in season and out of season: they had ...
Amos 8:11-14 meaning. Amos predicts a widespread famine and drought that will plague the nation Israel. It will not be a famine of food or thirst for water, but rather a starvation for hearing the words of the LORD. This oracle begins with the statement " Behold, days are coming " to alert the Israelites of the imminent nature of what was about ...
Amos 8:11 (NASB) The first act of punishment listed is that God would send a famine. But the famine was not one of no food or no water. The people would not suffer from a lack of food or water. Instead, they would suffer due to a famine of not hearing the words of the Lord. That is, they would not hear the words of Scripture which God wrote.
A FAMINE OF THE WORD.—Amos 8:11. The prophet now predicts far greater evils than temporal judgments. A famine of the word, one of the saddest events that could happen a Divinely taught people. This is the last and sorest of all calamities. When God will not speak to men by his servants and word it is a sign that he will punish and reject them. I.
Matthew Poole's Commentary. Amos 8:1. Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit. By a basket of summer fruit is showed the near approach of Israel’s end, Amos 8:1-3. Their oppression of the poor shall cause their joy to be turned into mourning, Amos 8:4-10. A famine of God’s word threatened, Amos 8:11-14.
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1. (1-3) The basket of summer fruit. Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit. And He said, “Amos, what do you see?”. So I said, “A basket of summer fruit.”. Then the LORD said to me: I will not pass by them anymore. They shall be thrown out in silence.”.
