Amos

• Prophecies of Amosc. 788 BC

Amos (Person)

• עָמוֹס·Amos

Includes 27 verses that refer to Amos without naming them, as “he”, “she”, or the subject of a verb.

1. Amos 1:1
   These are the words of Amos, who was among the sheepherders of Tekoa—what he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake, in the days when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel.
2. Amos 1:2Referred to, not named
   He said: “The LORD roars from Zion and raises His voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the summit of Carmel withers.”
3. Amos 1:8Referred to, not named
   I will cut off the ruler of Ashdod and the one who wields the scepter in Ashkelon. I will turn My hand against Ekron, and the remnant of the Philistines will perish,” says the Lord GOD.
4. Amos 3:7Referred to, not named
   Surely the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets.
5. Amos 3:8Referred to, not named
   The lion has roared—who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken—who will not prophesy?
6. Amos 3:11Referred to, not named
   Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “An enemy will surround the land; he will pull down your strongholds and plunder your citadels.”
7. Amos 3:13Referred to, not named
   Hear and testify against the house of Jacob, declares the Lord GOD, the God of Hosts.
8. Amos 4:2Referred to, not named
   The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: “Behold, the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
9. Amos 4:5Referred to, not named
   Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings. For that is what you children of Israel love to do,” declares the Lord GOD.
10. Amos 5:1Referred to, not named
    Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:
11. Amos 5:3Referred to, not named
    This is what the Lord GOD says: “The city that marches out a thousand strong will have but a hundred left, and the one that marches out a hundred strong will have but ten left in the house of Israel.”
12. Amos 5:16Referred to, not named
    Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.
13. Amos 6:8Referred to, not named
    The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself—the LORD, the God of Hosts, has declared: “I abhor Jacob’s pride and detest his citadels, so I will deliver up the city and everything in it.”
14. Amos 7:1Referred to, not named
    This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts just after the king’s harvest, as the late spring crop was coming up.
15. Amos 7:2Referred to, not named
    And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”
16. Amos 7:4Referred to, not named
    This is what the Lord GOD showed me: The Lord GOD was calling for judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.
17. Amos 7:5Referred to, not named
    Then I said, “Lord GOD, please stop! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”
18. Amos 7:6Referred to, not named
    So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen either,” said the Lord GOD.
19. Amos 7:7Referred to, not named
    This is what He showed me: Behold, the Lord was standing by a wall true to plumb, with a plumb line in His hand.
20. Amos 7:8
    “Amos, what do you see?” asked the LORD. “A plumb line,” I replied. “Behold,” said the Lord, “I am setting a plumb line among My people Israel; I will no longer spare them:
21. Amos 7:10
    Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words,
22. Amos 7:11
    …for this is what Amos has said: ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’”
23. Amos 7:12
    And Amaziah said to Amos, “Go away, you seer! Flee to the land of Judah; earn your bread there and do your prophesying there.
24. Amos 7:14
    “I was not a prophet,” Amos replied, “nor was I the son of a prophet; rather, I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore-fig trees.
25. Amos 7:15Referred to, not named
    But the LORD took me from following the flock and said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to My people Israel.’
26. Amos 7:16Referred to, not named
    Now, therefore, hear the word of the LORD. You say: ‘Do not prophesy against Israel; do not preach against the house of Isaac.’
27. Amos 8:1Referred to, not named
    This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.
28. Amos 8:2
    “Amos, what do you see?” He asked. “A basket of summer fruit,” I replied. So the LORD said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.”
29. Amos 8:3Referred to, not named
    “In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!”
30. Amos 8:9Referred to, not named
    And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.
31. Amos 8:11Referred to, not named
    Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.
32. Amos 9:1Referred to, not named
    I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said: “Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Topple them on the heads of all the people, and I will kill the rest with the sword. None of those who flee will get away; none of the fugitives will escape.
33. Amos 9:5Referred to, not named
    The Lord GOD of Hosts, He who touches the earth and it melts, and all its dwellers mourn—all the land rises like the Nile, then sinks like the river of Egypt—
34. Amos 9:8Referred to, not named
    Surely the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth. Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” declares the LORD.