Among many other Prophets that God raised up to admonish the Israelites of his plagues for their wickedness and idolatry, he stirred up Amos, who was a herdman or shepherd of a poor town, and gave him both knowledge and constancy to reprove all estates and degrees, and to make known God’s horrible judgments against [...]
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Amos 1:1: The words of Amos, one of the shepherds of Tekoa—what he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake, when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel. Leave a comment
Amos 1:3 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron: Leave a comment
For three – This certain number is put for an uncertain: three, that is, many. Of Damascus – Here Damascus is put for the whole kingdom of Syria. Threshed – Treated it with the utmost cruelty. Gilead – There was a country of this name, and a city, possessed by the Reubenites, Gadites, and Manassites; [...]
Amos 1:2: He said: “The LORD roars from Zion and thunders from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds dry up, and the top of Carmel withers.” Leave a comment
When God speaks it is often described by the prophets as sounding like a roaring lion (Hosea 11:10; Joel 3:16). Jer. 25:30 “Therefore you shall prophesy against them all these words, and you shall say to them, The LORD will roar from on high, And utter His voice from His holy habitation; He will roar [...]
Amos 7: 14-15: Then Amos answered, and said to Amaziah: “ I was no prophet, Nor was I a son of a prophet, But I was a sheepbreeder And a tender of sycamore fruit. Then the LORD took me as I followed the flock, And the LORD said to me,‘ Go, prophesy to My people Israel Leave a comment
Amos did not train to be a prophet, nor was he one by profession. He was a shepherd who heard the voice of God.
The Book of Amos Leave a comment
According to the heading of his book (i,1) Amos was a herdsman of Thecua, a village in the Southern Kingdom, twelve miles south of Jerusalem. Besides this humble avocation, he is also spoken of in vii, 14, as a simple dresser of sycamore-trees. Hence, as far as we know, there is no sufficient ground for [...]
Amos 3:7: Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. Leave a comment
God does nothing without using his prophets to speak his word. That is a strong statement. It would have been enough – I would think – for him to say that he usually uses his prophets or that he sometimes uses his prophets. But God clearly says that he always speaks through his prophets. He [...]
