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Amos 8

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1 Så lot Herren, Israels Gud, mig se dette syn: Der stod en kurv med moden frukt.

2 Og han sa: Hvad ser du, Amos? Jeg svarte: En kurv med moden frukt. Da sa Herren til mig: Enden er kommet for mitt folk Israel; jeg vil ikke lenger bære over med dets synd.

3 Palassets sanger skal bli til klageskrik på den dag, sier Herren, Israels Gud; der ligger lik i mengde, overalt kastes de til side i stillhet.

4 Hør dette, I som higer efter å opsluke den fattige og gjøre ende på de saktmodige i landet,

5 I som sier: Når er nymånedagen slutt, så vi kan selge korn, og sabbaten, så vi kan åpne kornbodene og gjøre efaen liten og sekelen stor og forfalske vekten

6 og kjøpe de ringe for penger og den fattige for et par sko og selge avfall av korn?

7 Herren har svoret ved Jakobs stolthet: Jeg skal aldri glemme alt det de har gjort.

8 Må ikke derfor jorden skjelve, og alle som bor på den, sørge? Må ikke hele jorden heve sig som Nilen, stige og falle som Egyptens elv?

9 Og det skal skje på den dag, sier Herren, Israels Gud, at jeg vil la solen gå ned om middagen og gjøre det mørkt på jorden ved høilys dag.

10 Og jeg vil omskifte eders høitider til sorg og alle eders sanger til klage, jeg vil legge sekk om alle lender og la hvert hode bli skallet; jeg vil gjøre det så som når en sørger over sin eneste sønn, og la enden bli som en ulykkens dag.

11 Se, dager kommer, sier Herren, Israels Gud, da jeg sender hunger i landet, ikke hunger efter brød og ikke tørst efter vann, men efter å høre Herrens ord.

12 Da skal de vanke om fra hav til hav og fra nord til øst; de skal flakke omkring og søke efter Herrens ord, men de skal ikke finne det.

13 På den dag skal de fagre jomfruer og de unge menn vansmekte av tørst,

14 de som sverger ved Samarias synd* og sier: Så sant din gud lever, Dan, og så sant han lever han de dyrker i Be'erseba! Og de skal falle og ikke reise sig mere. / {* avgud; 5MO 9, 21.}

   

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707. The Lord's words make it very clear that bread means the same thing as flesh: "Jesus took the bread, broke it and gave it [to the disciples] and said, 'This is my body'" (Matthew 26:[26]; Mark 14:[22]; Luke 22:[19]). Also, "the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I am giving for the life of the world" (John 6:51). The Lord also says that he is "the bread of life. Anyone who eats this bread will live forever" (John 6:48, 51, 58).

The same "bread" is also what is meant by the sacrificial animals, which are called bread in the following passages:

The priest will burn them on the altar as the bread of an offering made by fire to Jehovah. (Leviticus 3:11, 16)

The sons of Aaron will be holy before their God. They are not to profane the name of their God, because they make offerings by fire to Jehovah as the bread of their God. You will consecrate him, because he offers the bread of your God. A man of the seed of Aaron in whom there is any defect is not to come forward and offer the bread of his God. (Leviticus 21:6, 8, 17, 21)

Command the children of Israel and say to them, "You are to observe my offering, my bread for the offerings made by fire that exude an aroma of rest. You are to offer them to me at the appointed time. " (Numbers 28:2)

One who has touched something unclean is not to eat of the consecrated offerings; he is to wash his flesh in water. Afterward he may eat of the consecrated offerings, because that is his bread. (Leviticus 22:6-7)

The food to eat from the consecrated offerings was the flesh of the sacrificial animals, which is here also called bread. See also Malachi 1:7.

[2] The food offerings that were part of certain sacrifices were likewise made of grain, and were therefore a kind of bread; they, too, have the same meaning (Leviticus 2:1-11; 6:14-21; 7:9-13; and elsewhere). So does the bread that was on a table inside the tabernacle; it was called the showbread or the bread set before Jehovah (see Exodus 25:30; 40:23; Leviticus 24:5-9).

As the following quotations make clear, bread in the Word means heavenly bread, not physical bread.

Humankind does not live by bread alone; humankind lives by everything that comes from the mouth of Jehovah. (Deuteronomy 8:3)

I will strike the earth with hunger - not hunger for bread or thirst for water but for hearing the words of Jehovah. (Amos 8:11)

Furthermore the term "bread" is used to mean food of every kind (see Leviticus 24:5-9; Exodus 25:30; 40:23; Numbers 4:7; 1 Kings 7:48). And in fact the word "food" itself means spiritual food, as the Lord's words make clear in the following passage:

Work for food - not for the food that perishes but for the food that lasts to eternal life, which the Son of Humankind will give you. (John 6:27)

  
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