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Amos 1 is the first chapter of the Book of Amos in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] [2] ... The Amos' Earthquake impacted Hebrew ...
Amos (/ ˈ eɪ m ə s /; Hebrew: עָמוֹס – ʿĀmōs) was one of the Twelve Minor Prophets of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament.According to the Bible, Amos was the older contemporary of Hosea and Isaiah and was active c. 760–755 BC during the rule of kings Jeroboam II of Israel and Uzziah of Kingdom of Judah and is portrayed as being from the southern Kingdom of Judah yet ...
The epicenter of this earthquake may have been 200–300 km north of present-day Israel. Multiple biblical references exist to this earthquake in the Book of Amos, [20] and also in Zechariah 14:5. [21] Recent excavations by Aren Maeir in ancient Gath have revealed evidence of a major earthquake.
The Book of Amos is the third of the Twelve Minor Prophets in the Old Testament (Tanakh) and the second in the Greek Septuagint tradition. [1] According to the Bible, Amos was an older contemporary of Hosea and Isaiah, [2] and was active c. 750 BC during the reign of Jeroboam II [2] (788–747 BC) of Samaria (Northern Israel), [3] while Uzziah was King of Judah.
A depiction of the earthquake in the Book of Amos; Illuminated Bible from the 1220s, National Library of Portugal. A major earthquake is referred to in the book of the prophet Amos. Amos dates his prophecy to "two years before the earthquake, when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam II son of Jehoash was king of Israel" (Amos 1:1, NIV).
c. 760 BCE – a major earthquake described in the book of Amos, affecting ancient Kingdom of Israel and Kingdom of Judah [6] [7] Suggested epicenter location is north of Israel. Estimation of the local magnitude range from 7.8 to 8.2, making it possibly the largest earthquake along the Dead Sea Transform. [8]
He suffered leprosy, and a major earthquake occurred during his reign in 760 BC. 2 Kings 15:5, (Amos 1:1, NIV) Xerxes I: King of Persia 486–465: Called Ahasuerus in the books of Ezra and Esther. [19] [78] Xerxes is known in archaeology through a number of tablets and monuments, [79] notably the "Gate of All Nations" in Persepolis.
The Twelve Minor Prophets (Hebrew: שנים עשר, Shneim Asar; Imperial Aramaic: תרי עשר, Trei Asar, "Twelve") (Ancient Greek: δωδεκαπρόφητον, "the Twelve Prophets"), or the Book of the Twelve, is a collection of prophetic books, written between about the 8th and 4th centuries BCE, which are in both the Jewish Tanakh and Christian Old Testament.