Mowing. As the great heat of the climate in Palestine and other similarly situated countries soon dries up the herbage itself, hay-making in our sense of the term is not in use. The "king's mowings," Amos 7:1, may perhaps refer to some royal right, of early pasturage for the use of the cavalry.
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