Amos 4:7

"“I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says the LORD."

Key Reflection

Amos 4:7 speaks directly to the Israelites, highlighting God’s judgment through a series of natural disasters such as famines and water shortages that afflicted their cities. The historical context reveals that these hardships were intended to provoke repentance, yet the people remained rebellious, failing to turn back to Yahweh despite clear signs of divine displeasure.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

And I, I too have withholden the rain -Jerome, dwelling in Palestine, says, that “this rain, when “three months yet remained until harvest,” was the “latter rain,” of the very greatest necessity for the fields of Palestine and the thirsty ground, lest, when the blade is swelling into the crop, and gendering the wheat, it should dry up through lack of moisture. The time intended is the spring, at the end of April, whence, to the wheat-harvest, there remain three months, May, June, July.” “God withheld the rain that they might endure, not only lack of bread, but burning thirst and penury of drink also.

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