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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 ...
Amos therefore owned and tended flocks, and collected sycamore figs. Amos 7:14, 15) implies that Amos belongs to a "humble rank". [ 5 ] "Herdmen" (Hebrew: noked ): the same as found in 2 Kings 3:4 , applied to Mesha, King of Moab, a great "sheepmaster": hence some have considered that Amos was not a mere mercenary, but a rich possessor of flocks.
The Kingdom of Judah [a] was an Israelite kingdom of the Southern Levant during the Iron Age. Centered in the highlands to the west of the Dead Sea, the kingdom's capital was Jerusalem. [3] It was ruled by the Davidic line for four centuries. [4] Jews are named after Judah, and primarily descend from people who lived in the region. [5] [6] [7]
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.
Although the Talmud states that only “48 prophets and 7 prophetesses prophesied to Israel”, [6] it does not mean that there were only 55 prophets. The Talmud challenges this with other examples, and concludes by citing a Baraita tradition that the number of prophets in the era of prophecy was double the number of Israelites who left Egypt ...
Two House theology raises questions when applied to modern peoples who are thought to be descendants of the two ancient kingdoms, both Jews (of the Kingdom of Judah) and the ten lost tribes of the Kingdom of Israel. The phrase "the two houses of Israel" is found in the Book of Isaiah (Isaiah 8:14).
Simeon was one of the less significant tribes in the Kingdom of Judah. Attempts to reconstruct the territory of Simeon work with three biblical lists: Book of Joshua 19:2-9, 1 Chronicles 4:28-32, which list towns belonging to Simeon, and Joshua 15:20-30, which lists these same towns as part of the territory of Judah. [3]
[1] [2] In the Hebrew Bible it is a part of the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets. [3] [4] The Book of Amos contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet Amos, including in this chapter a lamentation for Israel (Amos 5:1–3), an exhortation to repentance (Amos 5:4–20), and God's rejection of their hypocritical service (Amos 5:21–27). [5]