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a. During the reigns of Jeroboam II of Israel (782-753) and Uzziah of Judah (767-740), so ~760 (752-767). b. Amos was from Judah (Tekoa is south of Jerusalem) and traveled north to Israel to deliver his message. c. Amos was roughly contemporary with Hosea and Jonah, and is believed to the be earliest writing prophet. d.
Amos (/ ˈ eɪ m ə s /; Hebrew: עָמוֹס – ʿĀmōs) was one of the Twelve Minor Prophets of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament.According to the Bible, Amos was the older contemporary of Hosea and Isaiah and was active c. 760–755 BC during the rule of kings Jeroboam II of Israel and Uzziah of Kingdom of Judah and is portrayed as being from the southern Kingdom of Judah yet ...
What is most important to us is the action. that the accusation presupposes. The "people of Israel" are here seen to. exercise direct control over the activity of Yahweh's prophets by commanding them not to prophesy. Amos, of course, strongly disapproves of such activity and announces that Yahweh also disapproves.
Exploring the Prophets: Amos. Introducing the Book of Amos, Prof Jason Radine writes, "The book opens with a claim that Amos prophesied during the overlapping reigns of King Uzziah of Judah and King Jeroboam II of Israel. This would have been in the 760s B.C.E. This was a high point of Israel’s power, but Amos predicts that Israel will be ...
Amos. The Prophet The preface to the book of Amos identifies him as a shepherd from Tekoa, and dates his prophecy to the time of King Jeroboam son of Joash (785–745 B.C.E.) of Israel and the roughly contemporary King Uzziah of Judah. Tekoa is in Judah, some ten miles south of Jerusalem. Yet Amos
7:10, Amos worked in the reign of Jeroboam II in the mid-eighth century BCE. He came from Tekoa (Khirbet Teqûʿ), five miles south of Bethlehem, and thus in the kingdom of Judah, but his prophetic activity, which may have lasted only a short time, was exercised in the northern kingdom of Israel, especially at the sanc-tuary of Bethel.
Israel -that is prominent before the mind of Amos and is the occasion of his com-ing forward to utter his prophecy. When we come to examine more particularly the religious ideas of Amos, we must be careful not to superimpose upon the thought of the prophet any precon-ceived notions of our own. Amos has no formulated creed to present, and is silent
