--- title: "Amos 7 - Study King James Bible with pooles english annotations on the holy bible" description: "Read Amos 7 with pooles english annotations on the holy bible commentary. 1 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" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/pooles-english-annotations-on-the-holy-bible/amos/7" --- [ Read](/kjv/amos/7)[ Commentary](/study/amos/7)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/amos/7) Audio 1 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.* 2 And it came to pass, *that* when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he *is* small.* 3 The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD. 4 ¶ Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part. 5 Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he *is* small.* 6 The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD. 7 ¶ Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall *made* by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand. 8 And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more: 9 And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword. 10 ¶ Then Amaziah the priest of Beth-el sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words. 11 For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land. 12 Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there: 13 But prophesy not again any more at Beth-el: for it *is* the king’s chapel, and it *is* the king’s court.** 14 ¶ Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I *was* no prophet, neither *was* I a prophet’s son; but I *was* an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:* 15 And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.* 16 ¶ Now therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not *thy word* against the house of Isaac. 17 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land. [Amos 6](/study/amos/6) [Amos 8](/study/amos/8) ## Commentary To verse 1 **Thus:** sometimes this refers to what went before, here it refers to what the prophet saw and is about to declare. **Hath the Lord God showed unto me:** this is the first of five visions or prophetic representations of what was coming upon this people for their sins. The Lord gave Amos a clear sight of the future calamity by this vision. **Behold;**I could not but observe, and it is worthy your observance too. **He formed:** it is not said he called for them, but he formed or created them, probably intimating somewhat extraordinary in them, either in their bigness or number, or rather sudden appearing of them. So the plague signified by them should suddenly come upon them. **Grasshoppers:** in our country grasshoppers are not hurtful, but these in our text were locusts, and so rendered [Isaiah 33:4](/kjv/isaiah/33/4); [Nahum 3:17](/kjv/nahum/3/17); and the word used by Amos here is paraphrased by the Hebrew critics by a word that properly notes locust. **It was the latter growth:** the shooting up of the first growth being too luxuriant, they did either mow off the tops, or eat it down with cattle, and this was done for preserving the corn and increase of the harvest; but if the second growth were cut off or eat up, it marred the whole harvest; and these devouring locusts were formed in such time as to do this, and so to bring a famine upon the land. **After the king’s mowings;**it is supposed that the first mowing of the luxuriant corn in the blade was for the king’s use, and after this the second springing grew up to the harvest. 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