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Amos 8:2

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Amos: Amos 7:8; Jeremiah 1:11-14; Ezekiel 8:6, Ezekiel 8:12, Ezekiel 8:17; Zechariah 1:18-21, Zechariah 5:2, Zechariah 5:5-6

A basket: Deuteronomy 26:1-4; 2 Samuel 16:1-2; Isaiah 28:4; Jeremiah 24:1-3, Jeremiah 40:10; Micah 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." Jeremiah 1:12, Jeremiah 5:31; Lamentations 4:18; Ezekiel 7:2, Ezekiel 3:7, Ezekiel 3:10, Ezekiel 12:23, Ezekiel 29:8

I will not: Amos 7:8

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