{"id":4703,"verse_id":"AMO.8.1","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"AMO","chapter":8,"verse":1,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"2","reference":"8.1","text":"The basket of summer fruit (also in the following verse) probably refers to figs from the summer crop, which ripens in August-September. See O. Borowski, Agriculture in Iron Age Israel , 115.","source_note_position":2,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Amos%208%3A1/2"}
{"id":4704,"verse_id":"AMO.8.5","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"AMO","chapter":8,"verse":5,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"1","reference":"8.5","text":"Apparently work was prohibited during the new moon festival , just as it was on the Sabbath.","source_note_position":1,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Amos%208%3A5/1"}
{"id":4705,"verse_id":"AMO.8.7","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"AMO","chapter":8,"verse":7,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"2","reference":"8.7","text":"In an oath one appeals to something permanent to emphasize one’s commitment to the promise. Here the Lord sarcastically swears by the arrogance of Jacob , which he earlier had condemned ( 6:8 ), something just as enduring as the Lord ’s own life (see 6:8 ) or unchanging character (see 4:2 ). Other suggestions include that the Lord is swearing by the land, his most valuable possession (cf. Isa 4:2 ; Ps 47:4 [ 47:5 HT]); that this is a divine epithet analogous to “the Glory of Israel” ( 1 Sam 15:29 ); or that an ellipsis should be understood here, in which case the meaning is the same as that of 6:8 (“The Lord has sworn [by himself] against the arrogance of Jacob”).","source_note_position":2,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Amos%208%3A7/2"}
{"id":4706,"verse_id":"AMO.8.14","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"AMO","chapter":8,"verse":14,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"4","reference":"8.14","text":"Your god is not identified. It may refer to another patron deity who was not the God of Israel, a local manifestation of the Lord that was worshiped by the people there, or, more specifically, the golden calf image erected in Dan by Jeroboam I (see 1 Kgs 12:28-30 ).","source_note_position":4,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Amos%208%3A14/4"}
