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Amos 7:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thus hath the Lord God showed unto me; and, behold, he formed κgrasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.

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or, green worms.

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1-3: The judgments of the grasshoppers,

4-6: and of the fire are diverted by the prayer of Amos.

7-9: By the wall of a plumbline is signified the rejection of Israel.

10-13: Amaziah complains of Amos.

14-15: Amos shews his calling;

16-17: and Amaziah's judgment.

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Amos 7:4,7• ⁴Thus did the Lord Jehovah shew unto me; and behold, the Lord Jehovah called to contend by fire; and it devoured the great deep, and ate up the inheritance.
⁷Thus did he shew unto me; and behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumb-line, with a plumb-line in his hand. (Amos 7:4,7)

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Amos 8:1• ¹Thus did Jehovah shew unto me; and behold, a basket of summer-fruit. (Amos 8:1)

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Jer. 1:11‑16• ¹¹And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond-tree.
¹²And Jehovah said unto me, Thou hast well seen; for I am watchful over my word to perform it.
¹³And the word of Jehovah came to me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething-pot, and its face is from the north.
¹⁴And Jehovah said unto me, Out of the north shall evil break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
¹⁵For behold, I am calling all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith Jehovah, and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah:
¹⁶and I will pronounce my judgments against them for all their wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands. (Jer. 1:11‑16)

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Jer. 24:1• ¹Jehovah shewed me, and behold, two baskets of figs, set before the temple of Jehovah, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive from Jerusalem, Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, and the craftsmen and smiths, and had brought them to Babylon. (Jer. 24:1)

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Ezek. 11:25• ²⁵And I spoke unto them of the captivity all the things that Jehovah had shewn me. (Ezek. 11:25)

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Zech. 1:20• ²⁰And Jehovah shewed me four craftsmen. (Zech. 1:20)

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Amos 4:9• ⁹I have smitten you with blasting and mildew; the palmer-worm hath devoured the multitude of your gardens, and your vineyards, and your fig-trees and your olive-trees: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah. (Amos 4:9)

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Ex. 10:12‑16• ¹²And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out thy hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up over the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land--all that the hail hath left.
¹³And Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and Jehovah brought an east wind on the land all that day and all that night. When it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
¹⁴And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt, very grievous; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them will be such.
¹⁵And they covered the face of the whole land, so that the land was darkened; and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left; and there remained not any green thing on the trees, and in the herbs of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.
¹⁶And Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against Jehovah your God, and against you. (Ex. 10:12‑16)

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Isa. 33:4• ⁴And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar: as the running of locusts shall they run upon it. (Isa. 33:4)

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Joel 1:4• ⁴that which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten. (Joel 1:4)

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Joel 2:25• ²⁵And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmer-worm, my great army which I sent among you. (Joel 2:25)

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Nah. 3:15‑17• ¹⁵There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off; it shall devour thee like the cankerworm. Make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locust.
¹⁶Thou hast multiplied thy merchants more than the stars of the heavens; the cankerworm spreadeth himself out and flieth away.
¹⁷Thy chosen men are as the locusts, and thy captains as swarms of grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day: when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are. (Nah. 3:15‑17)

grasshoppers.

or, green worms.{Govai,} in Arabic {gabee,} "locusts," probably in their caterpillar state, in which they are most destructive.

This is supposed to have been an emblem of the first invasion of the Assyrians.mowings.Or rather, feedings or grazings, as the people of the East make no hay.

This was probably in the month of March, which is the only time of the year that the Arabs to this day feed their horses with grass.

• In Amos 7 a gradation of three judgments on Israel is set forth: first (verses 1-3) by the grasshoppers or creeping locusts, next (verses 4-6) by fire, and lastly (verses 7-9) by a plumbline, which intimated the strict measure applied to mark their iniquities; when patience had exhausted itself, further delay would have been connivance in evil. These troubles were accomplished historically, it would seem, in Pul, Tiglathpileser, and Shalmaneser, who finally swept away the kingdom. (“Amos 7” by W. Kelly)

• The first cuttings were called “the king’s mowings.” (“The Prophecies of Amos” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Thus did the Lord Jehovah shew unto me; and behold, he formed locustsb in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth, and behold, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.

JND Translation Notes

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Heb. gob. see Nah. 3.17.