Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 7
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, Amos 7:1-3 . The next vision threatens a judgment by fire, which would consume a great part, Amos 7:4-6 ; and the third a total overthrow of Israel, levelling it as it were... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Amos 7:17
Therefore thus saith the Lord ,.... For withstanding the prophet of the Lord, and forbidding him to speak in his name against the idolatry of Israel, as well as for his own idolatry: thy wife shall be an harlot in the city : either of Bethel or Samaria; either through force, being ravished by the soldiers upon taking and plundering the city; so Theodoret and others: or rather of choice; either, through poverty, to get bread, or through a vicious inclination, and that in a public manner:... read more