← IA IC ⌂ →

Amos

Borne; a burden, one of the twelve minor prophets. He was a native of Tekota, the modern Tekua, a town about 12 miles south-east of Bethlehem. He was a man of humble birth, neither a “prophet nor a prophet’s son,” but “an herdman and a dresser of sycomore trees,” R.V. He prophesied in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah, and was contemporary with Isaiah and Hosea (Amos 1:1; 7:14, 15; Zech. 14:5), who survived him a few years. Under Jeroboam II. the kingdom of Israel rose to the zenith of its prosperity; but that was followed by the prevalence of luxury and vice and idolatry. At this period Amos was called from his obscurity to remind the people of the law of God’s retributive justice, and to call them to repentance.

The Book of Amos consists of three parts:

Male

Recorded scripture occurrences (7)

References recorded in the source data; this is not an exhaustive list of mentions.

AMO 1:1: RV AMO 1:1 · LV AMO 1:1 · Read together AMO 1:1

Show passage in OET

OET-RV AMO 1:1

1 This is the message that Amos (who was among the shepherds in Tekoa) saw concerning Yisrael (Israel) in the days of King Uziyah of Yehudah (Judah), and also in the days of Yoash’s son King Yarov’am (Jeroboam) of Yisrael, two years before the earthquake.

OET-LV AMO 1:1

1 The _words/messages _of ʼĀmōʦ who he _was among_sheep-tenders from_Təqōˊa which he _saw on Yisrā^ʼēl/(Israel) in_the _days _of Uzziah the _king _of Yəhūdāh/(Judah) and_in_the _days _of Yāroⱱˊām/(Jeroboam) the _son _of Yōʼāsh/(Joash) the _king _of Yisrā^ʼēl/(Israel) two _years to_(the)_face _of/in _front _of/before the_earthquake.

AMO 7:8: RV AMO 7:8 · LV AMO 7:8 · Read together AMO 7:8

Show passage in OET

OET-RV AMO 7:8

8 and he asked me, “Amos, what do you see?”
¶ “A plumb line,” I answered.
¶ “Listen, I’ll drop a plumb-line down to check out my people Yisrael (Israel),” my master said. “Never again will I spare them.

OET-LV AMO 7:8