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- The prophet condemns the southern kingdom, Judah, for rejecting "the law of the Lord" and being led astray by "lies" (v. 4). He seems to speak of idolatry, as other texts combine rejecting God's law and following false deities in a manner that anticipates and echoes Amos 2:4 (Deut. 8:19; 2 Kings 17:15; Jer. 11:10; Ezek. 20:16).
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Jan 16, 2013 · About 150 years after Amos prophesied, Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon invaded Judah, destroying Jerusalem in 586 BC (2 Kings 25). Amos ministered primarily in the northern kingdom, Israel, so his condemnation of that nation is more extensive than his condemnation of Judah.
- Retrospective History
- The Historical Prophet
- Amos as A “Literary-Predictive Text”
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 760sB.C.E. This was a high point of Israel’s power, but Amos predicts that Israel will be destroyed because of their ethical failings. This takes place years later when the kingdom of Isr...
What then of the prophet Amos, the historical individual? Some of the book’s portions could go back to a historical prophet Amos. Nevertheless, the late date of many of the passages surveyed above suggests the book as a whole is not the work of a “prophet,” i.e., a mantic diviner who functioned as such, but is a literary construct. Our knowledge of...
The book of Amos is not “prophecy” per se, but rather is a “literary-predictive text”—a text written as prophecy to explain a historical development in terms of divine will. The book is thus both an indictment and an autopsy of fallen Israel, part of the general biblical understanding of Israel’s catastrophes as being due to the Israelites’ own rel...
Amos' prophecy shows that God's wrath blazes so fiercely precisely because of God's compassion for the weak and the marginalized. A common canard used to denigrate Judaism is the accusation that Jews worship the supposedly “wrathful God of the Old Testament.”.
Amos was a shepherd and fig tree farmer (Amos 7:14) who lived right near the border between northern Israel and southern Judah. The north had seized its independence about 150 years earlier (1 Kgs. 12) and was currently being ruled by Jeroboam II, a successful military leader.
Jan 14, 2013 · Though he was from Judah, Amos ministered to the northern kingdom of Israel, where he first spoke his prophecies (Amos 7:10–17). Later, they were written down for the sake of Judah and the succeeding generations of God's people.
The Hebrew name Amos means “bearer” or “burden” and refers to the weighty warning that the Lord commissioned Amos to carry to the kingdom of Israel. Amos was a shepherd from a city called Tekoa, now a hilltop of ancient ruins about six miles south of Bethlehem, away from the normal trade routes.
Amos was a shepherd before the spirit of prophecy came over him. He was a herdsman from the village of Tekoa, and a dresser of sycamore trees. He began his prophecies "in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash , the king of Israel, two years before the earthquake."
