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Amos 7:1 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 1. 1Thus 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.
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Quick Meaning
This verse opens the first vision with locusts forming during the latter growth after the king's mowing.
Read It With
- Amos 7:1-3
Read Amos 7:1 with 7:1-3. This verse opens the first vision with locusts forming during the latter growth after the king's mowing. The complete unit establishes this movement: When a locust vision threatens the crop after the king's mowing, Amos intercedes for small Jacob and the LORD relents from this announced disaster.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The first vision shows prophetic warning joined to intercession and reveals that announced judgment is not a license for the prophet to desire destruction. Within that movement, this verse opens the first vision with locusts forming during the latter growth after the king's mowing.
Follow the Context
- The Lord GOD forms locusts at a vulnerable crop stage after the king's mowing.
- The insects finish eating the land's grass.
- Amos asks forgiveness because Jacob is small.
- The LORD relents and says it shall not be.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“the latter growth after the king's mowings”
In plain language: The locusts appear after an early crop portion associated with the king has been removed.
opens the first vision with locusts forming during the latter growth after the king's mowing. The threatened crop loss arrives at a politically and agriculturally vulnerable time.
Why it matters: The wording carries interpretive or ethical risk that requires the complete unit and stated limits.
How certain? probableWhat This Verse Is Not Saying
The locust vision does not predict a modern swarm, army, technology, famine date, or end-times event.
What Remains True
The threatened crop loss arrives at a politically and agriculturally vulnerable time.
How It Can Shape Life
- Study who bears disaster risk and who claims the first share of resources.
Teach It Back
Explain Amos 7:1's contribution to Amos 7:1-3: opens the first vision with locusts forming during the latter growth after the king's mowing. Include what the surrounding verses add, the stated uncertainty, and what this verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Amos 7:1-3 — The Locust Vision and Intercession for Small JacobSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
The crop calendar, insect, and meaning of the king's mowing are uncertain.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
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Supports: Exact reader-facing Scripture wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: Amos 7:1-3, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Amos
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording, morphology, clause relationships, wordplays, names, and the base text behind translation discussion.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Amos.xml, 7:1-3
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Amos with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level translation, syntax, textual, literary, historical, and uncertainty notes.
Exact location: NET Bible Amos PDF, printed pp. 1718-1719, translation and notes on 7:1-3
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