Amos 8 · Verse 1

Amos 8:1

Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
Amos 8:1, King James Version

Amos 8:1 in other translations

BSBThis is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.
WEBThus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
ASVThus the Lord Jehovah showed me: and, behold, a basket of summer fruit.
YLTThus hath the Lord Jehovah shewed me, and, lo, a basket of summer-fruit.
DARBYThus did Jehovah shew unto me; and behold, a basket of summer-fruit.
BBEThis is what the Lord God let me see: and I saw a basket of summer fruit.
WebsterThus hath the Lord GOD shown to me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.

What does Amos 8:1 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

Am 8:1-14. Vision of a Basket of Summer Fruit Symbolical, of Israel's End. Resuming the Series of Symbols Interrupted by Amaziah, Amos Adds a Fourth. The Avarice of the Oppressors of the Poor: The Overthrow of the Nation: The Wish for the Means of Religious Counsel, when There Shall Be a Famine of the Word.

1. summer fruit--Hebrew, kitz. In Am 8:2 "end" is in Hebrew, keetz. The similarity of sounds implies that, as the summer is the end of the year and the time of the ripeness of fruits, so Israel is ripe for her last punishment, ending her national existence. As the fruit is plucked when ripe from the tree, so Israel from her land.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Introduction

This chapter begins with a fourth vision denoting the certainty and nearness of the destruction of Israel, Amo 8:1-3. The prophet then proceeds to reprove their oppression and injustice, Amo 8:4-7. Strong and beautiful figures, by which is represented the complete dissolution of the Israelitish polity, Amo 8:8-10. The people threatened with a most awful judgment; a Famine of the word of God, Amo 8:11-14. Verse 1 A basket of summer fruit - As summer fruit was not proper for preserving, but must be eaten as soon as gathered, so the Lord intimates by this symbol that the kingdom of Israel was now ripe for destruction, and that punishment must descend upon it without delay. Some think the prophet means the fruits at the end of autumn. And as after the autumn no fruit could be expected, so Israel's summer is gone by, her autumn is ended, and she shall yield no more fruit. Or, the autumn of her iniquity is come, the measure is filled up, and now she shall gather the fruit of her sin in the abundance of her punishment.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Amos 8:1-3
Amos saw a basket of summer fruit gathered, and ready to be eaten; which signified, that the people were ripe for destruction, that the year of God's patience was drawing towards a conclusion. Such summer fruits will not keep till winter, but must be used at once. Yet these judgments shall not draw from them any acknowledgement, either of God's righteousness or their own unrighteousness. Sinners put off repentance from day to day, because they think the Lord thus delays his judgments.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Amos 8:1 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כֹּ֥הkohthusH3541
הִרְאַ֖נִיhir.'A.nihe showed meH7200
אֲדֹנָ֣י'a.do.Nai[the] LordH136
יְהוִ֑הYah.wehYahwehH3069
וְהִנֵּ֖הve.hi.Nehand there!H2009
כְּל֥וּבke.Luva basket ofH3619
קָֽיִץ\׃Ka.yitzsummer fruitH7019

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Amos 8:1

  • Amos 7:1

    Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.

  • Amos 7:7

    Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.

  • Amos 7:4

    Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord God called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1 By a basket of summer fruit is shown the approach of Israel's end.
4 Oppression is reproved.
11 A famine of the word of God threatened.

7:1,4,7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Amos 8:1

    Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.

  • Amos 8:2

    And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the Lord unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.

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Amos 8:1 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		ASÍ me ha mostrado Jehová: y he aquí un canastillo de fruta de verano.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		*Ainsi m’a fait voir le Seigneur, l’ Éternel, et voici, un panier de fruits d’été!
German
Elberfelder 1871		Also ließ mich der Herr, Jehova, sehen: Siehe, ein Korb mit reifem Obst.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Hæc ostendit mihi Dominus Deus: et ecce uncinus pomorum.