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• AmosBible

  Amos is the third of the twelve books of the Minor Prophets in the Old Testament. It preserves the words of the prophet Amos, who was active in the northern kingdom of Israel in the eighth century BC, and it is well known for its call to social justice and its critique of merely formal worship.

• Amos 2Bible

  Amos 2 continues the oracles against the nations begun in chapter 1, extending them to Moab and Judah, and finally indicts the northern kingdom of Israel for its social injustice and ingratitude, proclaiming a judgment from which there is no escape.

• Amos 6Bible

  Amos 6 pronounces woe on the leaders in Zion and Samaria who live at ease and are not grieved by the nation's ruin. It announces that they will be the first to go into captivity and that Israel will be trampled by a foreign nation.

• Amos 1Bible

  Amos 1 is the first chapter of the Book of Amos. It opens with a superscription identifying the book as the prophecy of Amos, a herdsman of Tekoa, and continues with declarations of judgment against the nations surrounding Israel, including Damascus, Gaza, Tyre, Edom, and Ammon.

• Amos 3Bible

  Amos 3 is a prophecy declaring that Israel will be punished for its sins precisely because it was chosen by God. It warns that the violence of Samaria, the altars of Bethel, and the splendid palaces will be brought to ruin.

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Verses in the King James Version 11, showing 6

• Amos 1:1

  The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

• Amos 7:8

  And the Lord said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:

• Amos 7:10

  Then Amaziah the priest of Beth–el sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.

• Amos 7:11

  For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.

• Amos 7:12

  Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:

• Amos 7:14

  Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:

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