Amos 1:1

The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel 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. THE WORDS OF AMOS - i:e., Amos' oracular communications. A heading found only in Jeremiah 1:1. WHO WAS AMONG THE HERDMEN - rather, 'shepherds,' both owning and tending sheep [ noqeed (H5349)]; from a Hebrew root [ naaqad (H5349)], to mark with pricks, as sheep used to be marked with their owner's sign or brand; or else, from an Arabic root, to select the best among a species of sheep and goats, ill-shapen and short-footed, but distinguished by their wool (Maure...

Amos boasts not here, in speaking of his own words, that he adduced anything as from himself, but avows himself to be only the minister of God; for he immediately adds that he received them by a vision. God himself raised up the Prophets and employed their labor; And, at the same time, guided them by his Spirit, that they might not announce anything but what had been received from him, but faithfully deliver what had proceeded from him alone. These two things then, well agree together, — that the prophecies which follow were the words of Amos and that they were words revealed to him from above; for the word חזה, _chese, _which Amos uses, properly means, to see by revelation; (16) and these revelations were called prophecies. But he says, that he _was among the shepherds of Tekoa. _This was a mean towns and had been shortly before surrounded by walls and had ever been previously a village...

THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET AMOS _Chronological Notes relative to this Book_ -Year from the Creation, according to Archbishop Usher, 3217. -Year of the Julian Period, 3927. -Year since the Flood, 1561. -Year from the foundation of Solomon's temple, 225. -Year since the division of Solomon's monarchy into the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, 188. -Year since the first Olympic games were celebrated in Elis by the Idaei Dactyli, 667. -Year since the restoration of the Olympic games at Elis by Lycurgus, Iphitus, and Cleosthenes, 97. -Year before the conquest of Coro

THE WORDS OF AMOS, WHO WAS AMONG THE HERDMEN - “Amos begins by setting forth his own nothingness, and withal the great grace of his Teacher and Instructor, the Holy Spirit, referring all to His glory.” He, like David, Peter, Paul, Matthew, was one of “the weak things of the world, whom God chose to confound the mighty.” He was himself a herdsman only “among herdsmen;” but the words which he spake were not his own. They were words which he saw, not with eyes of flesh, but “with that vision wherewith words can be seen, the seer’s vision in the mind.” They were “words concerning,” or rather “upon Israel,” heavy words coming upon the heavy transgressions of Israel. The Hebrew word “saw” is not of mere sight, but of a vision given by God. Amos only says that they were “his” words, in order immediately to add, that they came to him from God, that he himself was but the human organ through whic...

EXPOSITION VERSE 1-CH. 2:16 PART I. APPROACHING JUDGMENT. VERSE 1-CH. 2:3 _§ 1. The nations bordering on the Holy Land are solemnly summoned to judgment._ AMOS 1:1, AMOS 1:2 Heading of the book, with short summary of its contents. AMOS 1:1 Heading. THE WORDS. So Jeremiah begins his prophecy (Jeremiah 1:1), and the writer of Ecclesiastes (Ecclesiastes 1:1). That the words am not thos

THE WORDS OF AMOS,.... Not which he spoke of or for himself, but from the Lord; all the prophecies, visions, and revelations made unto him, are intended: WHO WAS AMONG THE HERDSMEN OF TEKOA; which was not in the tribe of Asher, as Kimchi; nor of Zebulun, as Pseudo-Epiphanius i; but in the tribe of Judah, 2 Chronicles 11:5. It lay to the south, and was six miles from Bethlehem. Mr. Maundrell k says it is nine miles distant, to the south of it; and, according to Jerom l, it was twelve miles from Jerusalem; though he elsewhere m says, Thecua, or Tekoa, is a village at this day, nine miles from Aelia or Jerusalem, of which place was Amos the prophet, and where his sepulchre is seen: either there is a mistake of the number, or of Aelia for Bethlehem; the former rather seems to be the case; according to Josephus n, it was not far from the castle of Herodium. The Misnic

ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED AGAINST THE NATIONS, JUDAH, AND ISRAEL CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The introduction (Amos 1:1) _ 2. Damascus (Amos 1:3) 3. Philistia (Amos 1:6) 4. Tyre (Amos 1:9) 5. Edom (Amos 1:11) 6. Ammon (Amos 1:13) Amos 1:1. It has been pointed out that Amos does not say like so many of the other prophets, “the Word of the Lord which came un

AMOS 1:1 F. SUPERSCRIPTION AND MOTTO. In the present form of the book we find prefixed to the oracles, probably by a post-exilic editor, some brief particulars as to the person of the prophet, the date of his ministry, and the key-note of his message. The prophet belonged to the Southern Kingdom. He was one of the shepherds of Tekoa (mod. _Tekü_-_ a_), a high-lying town, 6 miles S. of Bethlehem (p. 31) certain shepherds (_nô kל dî m)_ who bred or tended a peculiar kind of sheep having short legs and ugly faces but valued highly for their choice wool (_cf._ for their stunted growth the Arabian proverb viler than a _nakad_, and see Chenery, _Assemblies of Al Harǐ? ri_, i. 452f.). Mesha, king of Moab, is described as a breeder of this kind of sheep (2 Kings 3:4). The prophet received his

TITLE. THE WORDS OF AMOS. But the words of Jehovah by Amos. See Amos 1:3. AMOS. Burden. HERDMEN. shepherds. Hebrew. _nokdim_. so called from. peculiar breed of stunted sheep (with fine wool). Mesha was called. _noked_, rendered "sheepmaster"(2 Kings 3:4). See App-54. Occurs only in these two places. But Amos was also. herdman, as is clear from Amos 7:14. where _boker_ is from _bakar,_ an ox, and hence is connected with ploughing (1 Kings 19:19; 1 Kings 19:21, &c.) See note on...

Amos 1:1. The Heading _The words of_ The same title as Jeremiah 1:1; Ecclesiastes 1:1; Proverbs 30:1; Proverbs 31:1; Nehemiah 1:1. _among_ i.e. _one of, of:_see (in the Heb.) 1 Kings 2:7; Proverbs 22:26. _herdmen_ NAḲAD-KEEPERS. The word (_nôḳçd_) is a peculiar one