Chapter 7

1
showed Amos 7:4, Amos 7:7, Amos 8:1; Jer 1:11-16, Jer 24:1; Ezek 11:25; Zech 1:20

he Amos 4:9; Exod 10:12-16; Isa 33:4; Joel 1:4, Joel 2:25; 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.


2
when Exod 10:15; Rev 9:4

O Lord Amos 7:5; Exod 32:11-12, Exod 34:9; Num 14:17-19; Jer 14:7, Jer 14:20-21; Dan 9:19; Jas 5:15-16

by whom shall Jacob arise or, who of (or for) Jacob shall stand, Isa 51:19; Ezek 9:8, Ezek 11:13

for Ps 12:1, Ps 44:24-26; Isa 37:4; Jer 42:2; Zech 4:10


3
Amos 7:6; Deut 32:36; 1Chr 21:15; Ps 106:45; Hos 11:8; Joel 2:14; Jonah 3:10; Jas 5:16


4
showed Amos 7:1, Amos 7:7; Rev 4:1

called This is supposed to denote the invasion of Tiglathpileser, which threatened entire destruction. Amos 1:4, Amos 1:7, Amos 4:11, Amos 5:6; Exod 9:23-24; Lev 10:2; Num 16:35; Isa 27:4, Isa 66:15-16; Jer 4:4, Jer 21:12; Joel 2:30; Mic 1:4; Nah 1:6; Heb 1:7


5
cease Amos 7:2; Ps 85:4; Isa 10:25

for Amos 7:2-3; Isa 1:9; Jer 30:19


6
Judg 2:18, Judg 10:16; Ps 90:13, Ps 135:14; Jer 26:19; Jonah 4:2


7
a wall 2Sam 8:2; 2Kgs 21:13; Isa 28:17, Isa 34:11; Lam 2:8; Ezek 40:3; Zech 2:1-2; Rev 11:1, Rev 21:15


8
Amos Jer 1:11-13; Zech 5:2

a plumbline This was an emblem of strict justice; and intimated that God would now visit them according to their iniquities.

I will set Lam 2:8

I will not Amos 8:2; Jer 15:6; Ezek 7:2-9; Mic 7:18; Nah 1:8-9


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the high Amos 3:14, Amos 5:5, Amos 8:14, Beer-sheba, Gen 26:23-25, Gen 46:1; Lev 26:30-31

I will Fulfilled, 2Kgs 15:8-10


10
the priest 1Kgs 12:31-32, 1Kgs 13:33; 2Kgs 14:23-24; 2Chr 13:8-9; Jer 20:1-3; Jer 29:26-27; Matt 21:23; This was truly a lying prophet; there was not one word of truth in his message to Jeroboam.

hath 1Kgs 18:17; Jer 26:8-11, Jer 37:13-15, Jer 38:4; Luke 23:2; Acts 5:28, Acts 24:5

not Gen 37:8; Jer 18:18; Acts 7:54


11
thus Jer 26:9, Jer 28:10-11; Acts 6:14

Jeroboam Amos 7:9; Ps 56:5; Matt 26:61

and Israel Amos 6:7-8; 2Kgs 17:6


12
O thou 1Sam 9:9; 2Chr 16:10; Isa 30:10

go Amos 2:12; Matt 8:34; Luke 8:37-38, Luke 13:31; Acts 16:39

eat 1Sam 2:36; Isa 56:11; Ezek 13:19; Mal 1:10; Rom 16:18; 1Cor 2:14; 1Pet 5:2


13
prophesy Amos 2:12; Acts 4:17-18, Acts 5:28, Acts 5:40

for 1Kgs 12:29, 1Kgs 12:32, 1Kgs 13:1

chapel or, sanctuary

king's court Heb. house of the kingdom


14
neither 1Kgs 20:35; 2Kgs 2:3, 2Kgs 2:5, 2Kgs 2:7, 2Kgs 4:38, 2Kgs 6:1; 2Chr 16:7, 2Chr 19:2, 2Chr 20:34

an herdman Amos 1:1; Zech 13:5; 1Cor 1:27

a gatherer Rather, as bolais is rendered by the LXX and Vulgate, κνιζων, vellicans "a scraping," or a scraper of sycamores; for the fruit does not ripen till it is rubbed with iron combs.

sycamore fruit or, wild figs


15
took 2Sam 7:8; Ps 78:70-72; Matt 4:18-19, Matt 9:9

as I followed Heb. from behind

Go Jer 1:7; Ezek 2:3-4; Luke 24:46-48; Acts 1:8, Acts 4:20, Acts 5:20, Acts 5:29-32


16
hear 1Sam 15:16; 1Kgs 22:19; Jer 28:15-17

Prophesy Amos 7:13; Isa 30:10; Mic 2:6

and drop Deut 32:2; Ezek 20:46, Ezek 21:2


17
Thy wife Isa 13:16; Jer 20:6, Jer 28:12, Jer 28:16, Jer 29:21, Jer 29:25, Jer 29:31-32; Lam 5:11; Hos 4:13-14; Zech 14:2

thy land Ps 78:55

die 2Kgs 17:6; Ezek 4:13; Hos 9:3

and Israel Amos 7:11; Lev 26:33-39; Jer 36:27-32


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