Amos 7:1

CHAPTER VII

In this chapter God represents to Amos, by three several

visions, the judgments he is about to bring on Israel. The

first is a plague of locusts, threatening to cut of the hopes

of the harvest by attacking it in the time of the second

growth; the first luxuriances of the crop being probably mowed

for the king's horses, 1-3.

The next vision threatens a judgment by fire, which would

consume a great part, 4-6;

and the third a total overthrow of Israel, levelling it as it

were by a line, 7-9.

The rest of the chapter is a denunciation of heavy judgments

against Amaziah, priest of Beth-el, who had brought an

accusation to the king against the prophet, 10-17.

NOTES ON CHAP. VII

Verse Amos 7:1. Behold, he formed grasshoppers] גבי gobai is generally understood here to signify locusts. See the notes on Joel 1:1.

The shooting up of the latter growth] The early crop of grass had been already mowed and housed. The second crop or rowing, as it is called in some places, was not yet begun. By the king's mowings we may understand the first crop, a portion of which the king probably claimed as being the better hay; but the words may signify simply the prime crop, that which is the best of the whole. Houbigant thinks the shearing of the king's sheep is meant.