Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
showed . . . me; and, behold—The same formula prefaces the three visions in this chapter, and the fourth in Amos 8:1.
grasshoppers—rather, "locusts" in the caterpillar state, from a Hebrew root, "to creep forth." In the autumn the eggs are deposited in the earth; in the spring the young come forth [MAURER].
the latter growth—namely, of grass, which comes up after the mowing. They do not in the East mow their grass and make hay of it, but cut it off the ground as they require it.
the king's mowings—the first-fruits of the mown grass, tyrannically exacted by the king from the people. The literal locusts, as in Joel, are probably symbols of human foes: thus the "growth" of grass "after the king's mowings" will mean the political revival of Israel under Jeroboam II (II Kings 14:25), after it had been mown down, as it were, by Hazael and Ben-hadad of Syria (II Kings 13:3), [GROTIUS].
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Amos 7:1:
Jeremiah 24:1
Amos 6:14
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