Amos 4:7-8

[7] And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered. [8] So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

What is the context of Amos 4:7-8?

God’s Discipline and Israel’s Apostasy (Amos 4:6-13 true)
Israel’s Refusal to Return to God (Amos 4:6-13 true)
Israel Has Not Returned to the Lord (Amos 4:6-13 true)
Israel Did Not Accept Correction (Amos 4:6-13 true)
Israel’s Failure to Learn (Amos 4:1-13 true)
“Yet You Have Not Returned to Me” (Amos 4:1-13 true)
Israel Has Not Returned to God (Amos 4:1-13 true)
Social and Spiritual Corruption (Amos 4:1-13 true)

What does Amos 4:7-8 Mean?

Contextual Meaning

He had also sent drought when the people needed rain the most, three months before their harvest. He had let rain fall on one town but not another resulting in only spotty productivity (cf. 1 Kings 8:35). This too should have moved them to repent. Drought was also a punishment for covenant unfaithfulness ( Leviticus 26:19; Deuteronomy 28:22-24; Deuteronomy 28:48).