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- This is what it says in chapter eight, verse eleven. The days are coming, declares the sovereign Lord, when I will send a famine through the land. But it’s not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.
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Feb 15, 2023 · As is often the case among a rebellious people, Amos’s calls for national repentance were met with hostility (Amos 7:12). Let us begin by examining the eighth chapter of Amos in its entirety: This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
- Amos 5
Today is the day of salvation,” says the Lord (2 Corinthians...
- Amos 5
Amos 8:14. They who swear by the guilt of Samaria, and say, By the life of thy God, O Dan! and by the life of the way to Beersheba; and will fall, and not rise again." Those who now stand in all the fullest and freshest vigour of life, will succumb to this hunger and thirst.
In these final verses of Amos, God's judgment would come in the form of a spiritual famine, which would cause those who swore to pagan deities to fall and not rise again. In 722 BC, Assyria conquered the northern kingdom of Israel, or Samaria, and deported its people.
- (7-8) The Certainty of judgment.
- (9-10) The Extent of judgment.
- (11-14) The Famine of Hearing The Word of God.
The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob: “Surely I will never forget any of their works. Shall the land not tremble for this, And everyone mourn who dwells in it? All of it shall swell like the River, Heave and subside Like the River of Egypt. a. Surely I will never forget any of their works: This reminds us that timecan never erase sin. We often ...
“And it shall come to pass in that day,” says the Lord GOD, “That I will make the sun go down at noon, And I will darken the earth in broad daylight; I will turn your feasts into mourning, And all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist, And baldness on every head; I will make it like mourning for an only son, And its end...
“Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord GOD, “That I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine of bread, Nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the words of the LORD. They shall wander from sea to sea, And from north to east; They shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the LORD, But shall not find it. In that day the fair virgins And str...
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 ...
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Apr 22, 2021 · Other depictions of disaster in the book are vague, or on the spiritual level, such as the absence of YHWH’s word in Amos 8:11, described as a famine not of food but of divine communication. Nonetheless, the overall portrayal of the coming material disaster is one of military invasion and exile.
