Amos

AMOS is a programming language for the Commodore Amiga computer. See: AMOS BASIC programming language

Amos is also a town in Quebec. See Amos, Quebec

First Prophets
Books of Nevi'im
Joshua
Judges
Samuel
Kings
Latter Prophets
Isaiah
Jeremiah
Ezekiel
Minor Prophets Hosea * Joel * Amos * Obadiah * Jonah * Micah * Nahum * Habakkuk * Zephaniah * Haggai * Zechariah * Malachi
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Amos (עמוס "Burden", Standard Hebrew ʿAmos, Tiberian Hebrew ʿĀmôs) was a person in the Bible, and putative author of the Book of Amos.

He is one of the twelve minor prophets. He was a native of Tekoah Tekoa, the modern Tekua, a town about 12 miles south-east of Bethlehem. He was a man of humble birth, neither a "prophet nor a prophet's son," but "an herdman and a dresser of sycomore trees," R.V. He prophesied in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah, and was contemporary with Isaiah and Hosea, as well as Joel (Amos 1:1; 7:14, 15; Zechariah 14:5), who survived him a few years. Under Jeroboam II. the kingdom of Israel rose to the zenith of its prosperity; but that was followed by the prevalence of luxury and vice and idolatry. At this period Amos was called from his obscurity to remind the people of the law of God's retributive justice, and to call them to repentance.

The Book of Amos is part of the Old Testament and the Jewish Tanakh. The work consists of three parts:

The nations around are summoned to judgment because of their sins (1:1-2:3). He quotes Joel 3:16.
The spiritual condition of Judah, and especially of Israel, is described (2:4-6:14).
In 7:1-9:10 are recorded five prophetic visions. The first two (7:1-6) refer to judgments against the guilty people. The next two (7:7-9; 8:1-3) point out the ripeness of the people for the threatened judgements. 7:10-17 consists of a conversation between the prophet and the priest of Bethel. The fifth describes the overthrow and ruin of Israel (9:1-10); to which is added the promise of the restoration of the kingdom and its final glory in the Messiah's kingdom.

The style is peculiar in the number of the allusions made to natural objects and to agricultural occupations. Other allusions show also that Amos was a student of the law as well as a "child of nature." These phrases are peculiar to him: "Cleanness of teeth" [i.e., want of bread] (4:6); "The excellency of Jacob" (6:8; 8:7); "The high places of Isaac" (7:9); "The house of Isaac" (7:16); "He that createth the wind" (4:13).

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Initial text from Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897 -- Please update as needed