Amos 4:7

“And also I have withholden the rain from you, etc.] As he did for the space of three years successively in the days of Ahab, as predicted by Elijah, (<111701>1 Kings 17:1 <111801>18:1); the consequences of which are very bad to men and beast, and bring on a scarcity of food for both, and a famine if long withheld: when [there were] yet three months to the harvest; that is, three months before the harvest, as Jarchi; when, as Kimchi observes, there was need of rain: this was the latter rain which was usually given and expected about this time, and on which the goodness of the crop, and so of the harvest, greatly depended; these three months before barley harvest were December, January, and…”

“withholden . . . rain . . . three months to . . . harvest--the time when rain was most needed, and when usually "the latter rain" fell, namely, in spring, the latter half of February, and the whole of March and April (Hos 6:3; Joe 2:23). The drought meant is that mentioned in Kg1 17:1 [GROTIUS]. rain upon one city . . . not . . . upon another--My rain that fell was only partial.”

“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. For in these places, where we now live, all the water, except small fountains, is of…”

“When - At a season when your country most needed it. Upon one city - That you might see my hand in it, I gave rain to one city, and withheld it from the next; nay one part of the same field was watered and flourished: another part, dry and withered. Amos 4:8”

“I have: Lev 26:18-21, Lev 26:23, Lev 26:24, Lev 26:27, Lev 26:28; Deu 28:23, Deu 28:24; Kg1 8:35, Kg1 8:36; Ch2 7:13, Ch2 7:14; Isa 5:6; Jer 3:3, Jer 5:24, Jer 5:25, Jer 14:4, Jer 14:22; Hag 1:10, Hag 1:11; Zac 14:17; Jam 5:17; Rev 11:6 when: Joe 2:23; Joh 4:35 and I: Exo 8:22, Exo 9:4, Exo 9:26, Exo 10:23; Jdg 6:37-40; Co1 4:7 and the: Joe 1:10-18 Amos 4:8”