AMOS

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Updated 01/2024


CHAPTER 1

  1. Amos prophesied during the days of King Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel..
  2. Amos was a prophet for Israel but mainly prophesied against all the nations around Israel. (Damascus (Syria) for coming against Gilead (2 Kings 16:9), the Philistines, Tyre, Edom, and Ammon).

CHAPTER 2

  1. Amos prophesied against Judah and Israel last.
  2. Israel and Judah committed sin upon sin upon sin. Judah despised the law. Israel mistreated the righteous, took advantage of the poor, misled the humble, and committed sexual immorality.

CHAPTER 3

  1. God always reveals His secrets to His servants the prophets (to warn His people of coming judgment unless they may repent of their sinful ways and He could relent of their punishment).

CHAPTER 4

  1. The people were "worshiping, sacrificing, and praising God". They did these things but their heart was not honest.
  2. God sent famine, drought, blight, pestilence, and sword hoping the people would turn back to Him.

CHAPTER 5

  1. Bethel, Gilgal, and Beersheba were places where the people worshiped. (However, they not only imitated the law but also violated it.) Bethel and Gilgal will go into captivity and come to nothing
  2. God would come to judge the people and harm them rather than to have mercy on them. They would not escape the calamity coming upon them.
  3. Israel was holding their feast days, sacred assemblies, offerings, singing songs, and playing music to the Lord but let justice and righteousness sour.

CHAPTER 6

  1. The leaders told the people there was no day of doom. They were recklessly at ease, not fearing God's judgment.
  2. The leaders were self-indulgent. They ate well, had comfortable places to lie, and they relaxed with stringed instruments.
  3. The leaders shall be punished and taken captive first.
  4. What should have been good and just turned to evil and unjustness.

CHAPTER 7

  1. Amos prayed to God to relent of the destruction by locusts and the destruction by fire on the land.
  2. God drew a line between He and Israel. He would not be there to help them.
  3. Amaziah told Amos to go to Judah and prophesy there. Do not prophesy against Israel.
  4. Amaziah's wife would become a harlot in the city, his sons and daughters would die by the sword, his land would be divided, and he would die in a defiled land.

CHAPTER 8

  1. Israel was impatient during the New Moon and Sabbaths. They wanted the days of the Lord over so they could buy, sell, and trade deceitfully and take advantage of the poor and needy.
  2. God would send a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.
  3. Israel worshiped the two golden calves that Jeroboam had made and placed at Bethel and Dan ( 1Ki 12:28-29).

CHAPTER 9

  1. God will destroy the house of Israel from the earth, but He will sift the remnant and save the good and bring them back from captivity