1. Amos 7:1 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What was the king’s mowings?

Amos 7:1 (ESV)

1 This is what the Lord GOD showed me: behold, he was forming locusts when the latter growth was just beginning to sprout, and behold, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.

This is the only time in the Bible where reference is made to the king’s mowings or share. Presumably it refers to a first harvest that served as some sort of royal tax in order to provide feed for the livestock maintained by the court.1