 | Allen Black - Religion - 1997 - 308 pages
...confusion and exaggeration on the part of the Gospels. 8:9-10 ("'In that day,' declares the Sovereign LORD, 'I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight'"). Since this darkness comes close to the Passover feast, perhaps one should be reminded of the plague... | |
 | Phillip J. Cunningham - Religion - 1995 - 196 pages
...(15:33)The evangelist calls to the reader's mind the prophecy of Amos: "On that day, says the Lord GOD, 1 will make the sun go down at noon, and darken the earth in broad daylight. 1 will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; 1 will bring sackcloth... | |
 | Joseph Blenkinsopp - Religion - 1996 - 316 pages
...commentators of dating Amos to that time; an unfortunately not uncommon case of circularity. If Amos 8:9 ("I will make the sun go down at noon/ and darken the earth in broad daylight") alludes to a solar eclipse, it may be the one recorded for the eponym year of Bur-sagale in Assyria,... | |
 | John Michael Perry - Religion - 1997 - 196 pages
...presaged the tragic fate suffered by Jesus, God's Messiah-Son, at the time of the Passover festival: "And on that day," says the Lord God, "I will make...down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight. I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation ... I will make it like... | |
 | Thomas G. Long - Religion - 1997 - 348 pages
...the whole land (Matt. 27:45), as the prophet Amos had promised would happen on God's day of judgment: "On that day, says the Lord GOD, I will make the sun...down at noon, and darken the earth in broad daylight" (Amos 8:9; see also Matt. 24:29). scripture. This is the place where the forces of evil give vent to... | |
 | Bruce C. Birch - Religion - 1997 - 276 pages
...in it, and all of it rise like the Nile, and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt? ''On that day, says the Lord GOD, I will make the...down at noon, and darken the earth in broad daylight. '" I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth... | |
 | Donald E. Gowan - Religion - 1998 - 270 pages
...both the death of the Egyptians' firstborn in Exodus and the cutting off of one's name in Amos 5:2: On that day, says the Lord GOD, I will make the sun...down at noon, and darken the earth in broad daylight. I will turn your feasts into mourning. and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth... | |
 | Steven L. McKenzie, Matt Patrick Graham - Religion - 1998 - 262 pages
...will act against Israel. The first person independent personal pronoun predominates in this rhetoric: I will make the sun go down at noon, and darken the earth in broad daylight. I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth... | |
 | Jorg Jeremias - Religion - 1998 - 204 pages
...Concerning the original reading, cf. the parallel verse 9:5 and BHS. 9 On that day, says the Lord Yahweh, I will make the sun go down at noon, and darken the earth in broad davlight. 10 / will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; 1 will bring... | |
 | Eduard Schweizer - Religion - 1970 - 406 pages
...phenomenon is referred to in Amos 8:9 where "mourning for an only son" is mentioned in the very next verse: "And on that day," says the Lord God, "I will make...down at noon, and darken the earth in broad daylight" (Amos 8:9). The fact that the same occurrence was reported at the death of Caesar and in connection... | |
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And on that day," says the Lord GOD, "I will make the sun go down at noon, and darken the earth in broad daylight. 
