Amos 7:1 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Amos 7:1-9

We here see that God bears long, but that he will not bear always, with a provoking people, both these God here showed the prophet: Thus hath the Lord God showed me, Amos 7:1, 4, 7. He showed him what was present, foreshowed him what was to come, gave him the knowledge both of what he did and of what he designed; for the Lord God reveals his secret unto his servants the prophets, Amos 3:7. I. We have here two instances of God's sparing mercy, remembered in the midst of judgment, the narratives... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Amos 7:1

Thus hath the Lord showed unto me ,.... What follows in this and the two chapters, before the prophet delivered what he heard from the Lord; now what he saw, the same thing, the ruin of the ten tribes, is here expressed as before, but in a different form; before in prophecy, here in vision, the more to affect and work upon the hearts of the people: and, behold, he formed grasshoppers ; or "locusts" F21 גבי "ecce fictor locustarum", Pagninus, Montanus; so Munster, Vatablus,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 7:1

Behold, he formed grasshoppers - גבי gobai is generally understood here to signify locusts. See the notes on Joel 1 (note) and Joel 2 (note). The shooting up of the latter growth - The early crop of grass had been already mowed and housed. The second crop or rowing, as it is called in some places, was not yet begun. By the king's mowings we may understand the first crop, a portion of which the king probably claimed as being the better hay; but the words may signify simply the prime... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 7:1

Verse 1 Amos shows in this chapter that God had already often deferred the punishments which he had yet determined to inflict on the people; and thus he reminds the Israelites of their perverseness, inasmuch as they had abused the forbearance of God, and repented not after a long lapse of time: for God had suspended his judgments for this end — that they might willingly return to the right way, as he commonly allures men by his kindness, provided they be teachable. Since then this forbearance... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 7:1

Thus hath the Lord God showed unto me. By an inward illumination (comp. Amos 7:4 , Amos 7:7 ; and Amos 8:1 ; Jeremiah 24:1-3 ). He formed grasshoppers; rather, locusts ( Nahum 3:17 ). This points to the moral government of God, who uses nature to work his purposes, "wind and storm fulfilling his word." In the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; when the aftermath was beginning to grow under the influence of the latter rains. If the herbage was destroyed then,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 7:1-3

§ 1. The first vision, of locusts, represents Israel as a field eaten down to the ground, but shooting up afresh, and its utter destruction postponed at the prophet's prayer. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 7:1-3

The vision of devouring locusts. The prophet is appropriately called a seer. He sees clear and he sees far. Not only has Amos foresight of what is coming; he has insight into what, in certain circumstances, would have come. He is taken as it were behind the scenes, and made a witness of the forging of Heaven's thunderbolts, to be laid up for use as occasion may require. In this case he is cognizant by spiritual intuition of the preparation of judicial measures which, as circumstances turn... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 7:1-6

Revelation and prayer. "Thus hath the Lord God showed unto me," etc. This portion of the Book of Amos ( Amos 7:1-17 and Amos 8:1-14 ) contains four symbolical visions respecting successive judgments that were to be inflicted on the kingdom of Israel. They were delivered at Bethel, and in all probability at the commencement of the prophet's ministry. Each of them, as it follows in the series, is more severe than the preceding. The first presented to the mental eye of the prophet a swarm... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 7:1

And behold He formed - (that is, He was forming.) The very least things then are as much in His infinite Mind, as what we count the greatest. He has not simply made “laws of nature,” as people speak, to do His work, and continue the generations of the world. He Himself was still framing them, giving them being, as our Lord saith, “My Father worketh hitherto, and I work” John 5:17. The same power of God is seen in creating the locust, as the universe. The creature could as little do the one as... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 7:1

Amos 7:1. Thus hath the Lord showed unto me The Lord also showed me the following things. Here the prophet mentions the first of five prophetic representations of what was coming upon this people. He formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the latter growth He appeared to me as bringing a vast multitude of grasshoppers upon the land at the season when the grass begins to shoot again after the first mowing. Though this be spoken in a literal sense of a plague of grasshoppers, yet some... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Amos 7:1-9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Amos 7:1

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 7:1

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 7:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 7:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 7:1-3

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 7:1-3

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 7:1-6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 7:1

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 7:1

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