Amos
God raised up certain "prophets" who were His mouthpieces.
They would speak out against their sin and idolatry and would
continually warn of God's judgment. Some of the prophets spoke
out in the North and some in the South, but God was faithfully
warning them of certain catastrophe if they would not turn to
him....
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The Book of Amos is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible. Amos
was the first biblical prophet whose words were recorded in a
book, an older contemporary of Hosea and Isaiah.[1] He was
active c. 750 BCE during the reign of Jeroboam II.[1] He lived
in the kingdom of Judah but preached in the northern kingdom
of Israel.[1] His major themes of soc...
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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...
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("a burden".) Of Tekoah, in Judah, six miles S.E. of
Bethlehem. A shepherd (probably owning flocks) and dresser
of sycamore fig trees; specially called of the Lord to
prophesy, though not educated in the prophets' schools (Amos
1:1; Amos 7:14-15). These personal notices occur only as
connected with the discharge of his prophetic function; so
...
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LITERATURE
I. The Prophet.
1. Name:
Amos is the prophet whose book stands third among the
"Twelve" in the Hebrew canon. No other person bearing the
same name is mentioned in the Old Testament, the name of the
father of the prophet Isaiah being written differently
('amots). There is an Amos mentioned in the genealogical
series Lk 3:25, but he i...
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a'-mos (Amos): An ancestor of Jesus in Luke's genealogy, the
eighth before Joseph, the husband of Mary (Lk 3:25)....
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The book of the prophecies of Amos seems to be divided into
four principal portions closely connected together. (1) From
1:1 to 2:3 he denounces the sins of the nations bordering on
Israel and Judah. (2) From 2:4 to 6:14 he describes the state
of those two kingdoms, especially, the former. (3) From 7:1 to
9:10 he relates his visit to Bethel, a...
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