Note the numeration mounting to a climax, the two, the three, the four (Amos 1:3 and following). The word rendered “horseleach” is foun…

The grave.— See above, on Proverbs 15:11, where it is translated “hell.”

The grave
Which is the first of the four daughters, or insatiable things, which resemble the horse leech:

the grave is …

Cruelty and covetousness are two daughters of the horseleech, that still cry, Give, give, and they are continually uneasy within themselve…