It will happen in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
⛓ Read Amos 8 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion4
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Darkness came over the whole land' at midday fulfills Amos 8:9, 'I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in clear day' — Amos' day-of-the-Lord judgment over mourning Israel. The noon-darkness (sixth hour) verbal and temporal match is strong; the surrounding Amos context (mourning as for an only son, v. 10) reinforces it.
High confidenceDarkness over the whole land from the sixth to the ninth hour (noon to mid-afternoon) enacts the day-of-the-Lord oracle: 'I will make the sun go down at noon, and darken the earth in broad daylight.' The midday darkening is distinctive and eschatologically loaded, and Amos's following line about turning feasts into mourning over an 'only son' coheres with the death of the beloved Son.
High confidence'I will make the sun go down at noon, and darken the earth in broad daylight' — directly behind the darkness 'from the sixth hour (noon) until the ninth hour.' The day-of-the-LORD noon-darkness as sign of mourning/judgment.
High confidence'I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight' — Day-of-the-LORD darkening of the sun; supports the partial daylight-loss of v. 12 (the day not shining for a third of it).
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight' is part of the day-of-the-LORD darkening tradition feeding the blackened sun; verbal volume is modest but the motif recurs across the prophets.
Medium confidencePlaced here only insofar as the crucifixion setting is being established; the noon-darkness allusion proper belongs to 27:45 but the scene-setting begins here.
Low confidence