Amos 7:1 (KJV)

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Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me and behold he formed grasshoppers 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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Cross-references

shewed. Am 7:4 Am 7:7 Am 8:1 Jer 1:11-16 Jer 24:1 Eze 11:25 Zec 1:20

he. Am 4:9 Ex 10:12-16 Isa 33:4 Joe 1:4 Joe 2:25 Na 3:15-17

16 and Amaziah's judgment. 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.

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