1 The words of Amos which came [to him] in Accarim out of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Jerusalem, 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. 2 And he said, The Lord has spoken out of Zion, and has uttered his voice out of Jerusalem; and the pastures of the shepherds have mourned, and the top of Carmel is dried up. 3 And the Lord said, For three sins of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away from it; because they sawed with iron saws the women with child of the Gileadites. 4 And I will send a fire on the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the foundations of the son of Hadad. 5 And I will break to pieces the bars of Damascus, and will destroy the inhabitants out of the plain of Aven, and will cut in pieces a tribe out of the men of Haran: and the famous people of Syria shall be led captive, saith the Lord. 6 Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away from them; because they took prisoners the captivity of Solomon, to shut [them] up into Edom. 7 And I will send forth a fire on the walls of Gaza, and it shall devour its foundations. 8 And I will destroy the inhabitants out of Ashdod, and a tribe shall be cut off from Ashkelon, and I will stretch out my hand upon Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord. 9 Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not turn away from it; because they shut up the prisoners of Solomon into Edom, and remembered not the covenant of brethren. 10 And I will send forth a fire on the walls of Tyre, and it shall devour the foundations of it. 11 Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away from them; because they pursued their brother with the sword, and destroyed the mother upon the earth, and summoned up his anger for a testimony, and kept up his fury to the end. 12 And I will send forth a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the foundations of her walls. 13 Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away from him; because they ripped up the women with child of the Gileadites, that they might widen their coasts. 14 And I will kindle a fire on the walls of Rabbah, and it shall devour her foundations with shouting in the day of war, and she shall be shaken in the days of her destruction: 15 and her kings shall go into captivity, their priests and their rulers together, saith the Lord.
Amos · Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Amos 1 Updated Brenton English Septuagint
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- Same Septuagint text as Brenton, with modernised spelling.
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Amos
A sheep breeder from Tekoa whose words concerned Israel in the days of Uzziah and Jeroboam, whom Amaziah the priest told to go flee to Judah.
Cited in the guide: Amos 1:1; Amos 7:8; Amos 7:10
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- 1 Zechariah 14:5; 2 Chronicles 26:1–23; Amos 7:14; 1 Kings 19:19; 2 Samuel 14:2
- 2 Joel 3:16; Jeremiah 25:30; Isaiah 42:13; Amos 9:3; Jeremiah 12:4
- 3 2 Kings 10:32–33; Isaiah 8:4; Jeremiah 49:23–27; Amos 2:6; 2 Kings 8:12
- 4 2 Kings 13:3; Jeremiah 49:27; 2 Kings 13:25; 2 Kings 8:7–15; 2 Kings 6:24
- 5 2 Kings 16:9; Amos 9:7; Jeremiah 51:30; Lamentations 2:9; Isaiah 43:14
- 6 Amos 1:11; 2 Chronicles 28:18; Obadiah 11; Amos 1:9; 1 Samuel 6:17
- 7 Zephaniah 2:4; 2 Kings 18:8; Jeremiah 47:1; Deuteronomy 32:35; Psalm 75:7–8
- 8 Ezekiel 25:16; Isaiah 14:29–31; Zephaniah 2:4–7; Jeremiah 47:4–5; Isaiah 20:1
- 9 1 Kings 9:11–14; Isaiah 23:1–18; Joel 3:4–8; Zechariah 9:2–4; 2 Chronicles 2:8–16
- 10 Zechariah 9:4; Amos 1:7; Ezekiel 26:12; Amos 1:4
- 11 Ezekiel 25:12–14; Numbers 20:14–21; 2 Chronicles 28:17; Joel 3:19; Malachi 1:4
- 12 Jeremiah 49:7; Obadiah 9–10; Jeremiah 49:20; Jeremiah 49:22; Jeremiah 49:13
- 13 Hosea 13:16; Ezekiel 25:2–7; Jeremiah 49:1–6; Zephaniah 2:8–9; Isaiah 5:8
- 14 Jeremiah 49:2; Deuteronomy 3:11; Amos 2:2; Isaiah 30:30; 2 Samuel 12:26
- 15 Jeremiah 49:3
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… will have compassion upon us: He will destroy our iniquities, and will cast our sins into the depths of the sea." And again, specifying the place of His advent, he says: "The Lord hath spoken from Zion, and He has uttered His voice from Jerusalem." And that it is from that region which is towards the south of the inheritance …
… of the Lord which came to Hosea in the days of Uzziah, Jothan, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah." Amos also writes that he prophesied in the days of Uzziah, and adds the name of Jeroboam king of Israel, who lived at the same time. Isaiah the son of Amos--either the above-named prophet, or, as is rather affirmed, another who …
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