Amos 4:7 meaning and explanation

“I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.

Amos 4:7, Berean Standard Bible

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Amos speaks for God to the prosperous northern kingdom of Israel, and here the LORD describes a drought He sent. Rain was withheld three months before harvest, the crucial season when grain fills out, and it fell unevenly: one city watered, another left dry, one field green, another withered.

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