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	Amos (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net
		Amos was a native of Tekota, the modern Tekua, a town about 12 miles southeast of Bethlehem.
		He was a man of humble birth, neither a "prophet nor a prophet's son," but a herdsman and dresser of sycamore trees.
		7:10-17 consists of a conversation between the prophet and the priest of Bethel.
	www.christiananswers.net /dictionary/amos.html (240 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - AMOS. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		That Amos was from Judah is the simplest interpretation of vii.
		Amos is undoubtedly one of the grandest personalities among the Old Testament prophets; indeed, the most imposing of all, if the fact be considered that he is the first of the writing-prophets.
		The period of the prophet's activity is the reign of Jeroboam II., king of Israel, whose dynasty he mentions in one of his prophecies (vii.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=1423&letter=A&search=Amos (2699 words)

	Amos (1) - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
		From the abuses which the prophet denounces and the lifelike sketches he draws of the scenes amid which he moved, taken along with what we know otherwise of the historical movements of the period, we are able to form a fairly adequate estimate of the condition of the age and the country.
		The opening denunciation of Israel for oppression of the poor and for earth-hunger (Amos 2:6,7) is re-echoed and amplified in the succeeding chapters (Amos 3:9,10; 4:1; 5:11,12; 8:4-6); and the luxury of the rich, who battened on the misfortune of their poorer brethren, is castigated in biting irony in such passages as Amos 6:3-6.
		When, therefore, Amos, in face of the corrupt worship combined with elaborate ritual which prevailed around him, declares that God hates and despises their feasts and takes no delight in their solemn assemblies (Amos 5:21), we are not justified in pressing his words, as is sometimes done, into a sweeping condemnation of all ritual.
	www.studylight.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T481 (4158 words)

	College Papers-Amos The Prophet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Amos was a prophet from the town of Tekoh in Juda.
		Amos is sometimes called the "gloomy shepherd." He was not known for his sympathy or warmth, but for his sense of justice and of pride.
		Amos preached his message because the people of Israel were at the summit of worldly prosperity, but rapidly filling up the measure of their sins.
	www.college-papers.org /free_essays/religion/amos-the-prophetmnn.html (450 words)

	Holy Spirit Interactive: Bible Discovery - Prophet Amos
		Amos was a native of the southern kingdom of Judah, from the town of Tekoa -- about six miles south of Bethlehem, twelve miles south of Jerusalem, and eighteen miles west of the Dead Sea.
		Amos answered Amaziah, "I was neither a prophet nor a prophet's son, but I was a shepherd, and I also took care of sycamore-fig trees.
		Amos prophesied in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah, and was contemporary with Isaiah and Hosea, who survived him a few years.
	www.holyspiritinteractive.net /biblediscovery/amos.asp (219 words)

	Amos
		Amos was a contemporary of Jonah, Hosea, and Isaiah.
		Amos, however, is the first of these men to focus so much of his message on the sins of Israel, the anger and wrath of God, and the coming disastrous judgment.
		Amos begins by declaring that Yahweh is roaring like a lion out of Zion (we noted earlier the activity of the prophets during this time; remember also the prophets sent to Judah during Joel’s ministry).
	members.tripod.com /mikelunabeard/Bible/OldTestament/amos.htm (1967 words)

	Bible Book of the Month - Amos
		The Amos mentioned in the genealogy of Luke (3:25) is otherwise unknown.
		Personal History: Amos was not a prophet by profession, nor the son of a prophet (Amos 7:14).
		He met the opposition of the high priest Amaziah who reported the prophet to Jeroboam II and consequently Amos was ordered out of the country.
	home.hiwaay.net /~wgann/bbom/amos01.htm (1338 words)

	The Prophet Amos :: Morrish Bible Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		[Amos was] one of the minor Prophets, a native of Tekoa in Judah, possibly the father of the prophet Isaiah.
		He told Amaziah, "I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman and a gatherer of sycomore fruit: and the Lord took me as I followed the flock, and the Lord said to me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel." Amos 7: 14, 15.
		Though Amos and Hosea were prophets at the same time, and both prophesied of the sins of Israel, there is much difference in the style of the two.
	www.biblecentre.org /dictionary/morrish_amos.htm (684 words)

	The Prophet Amos: Patron saint of the politically correct or political outsider preaching personal piety?
		Amos, contrary to his modest protest before the priest of Bethel, was not only one of the first writing prophets, he was one of the greatest.
		Amos told Amaziah that he was neither a prophet nor a prophet's son (a common term used to indicate a student of one of the prophetical schools) (Amos 7:14).
		Amos was a poor outsider in a rich hostile land.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /dbryson14/essays/amos.html (3006 words)

	Biblical people: Amos
		Amos was a herdsman who lived in the village of Tekoa, before becoming a prophet during the reign of King Uzziah.
		Amos was not the first Bible prophet, but he was the first prophet to have his prophecies recorded in a book that is named after him.
		Amos predicted the overthrow of Israel by the Assyrians.
	www.aboutbibleprophecy.com /p5.htm (182 words)

	Bible Study - Amos
		Amos was one of the so-called "minor prophets" of The Bible (Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi), not because their ministries were somehow less important, but because their written accounts in the Scriptures are much shorter than the "major prophets" (Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel and Jeremiah).
		Amos was a shepherd from Tekoa, a town in Judea between Bethlehem and Hebron.
		Amos was a prophet of the southern kingdom of Judah with a prophetic message that moreover included the northern kingdom of Israel (see Jews At War With Israel).
	www.keyway.ca /htm2001/20010311.htm (357 words)

	Sermon 29 - Amos, first prophet of Israel.
		Amos is the first of the real prophets of Israel who exercised his ministry during the reign of Jeroboam II.
		Yes, Amos raised his voice against the kine of Bashan, the women, who oppressed the poor, crushed the needy and incited their men to indulgences, and he protested against the pagan-type practices at Beth-el, Gilgal and other altars.
		Amos tells us he pleaded through prayer to God to prevent the coming flood of disaster, and he tells us how he was able to understand the words and the warnings which were delivered to him by God's messengers: and these were in the form of poetic images or pictures which everyone could interpret.
	www.new-birth.net /sot/sermon29.htm (1283 words)

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		Amos has nothing to say in the face of such a vision, either because he knows that such attempts to intercede would be in vain, or because he has come to realize that God is indeed bringing a just sentence upon his people.
		Amos’ reply may also be intended to link the authority of his message directly to the call he received from Yahweh, as opposed to acting as a member of a given cult of court prophets.
		Amos is very concerned to point out to Amaziah that his call is directly from Yahweh and by his initiative alone – Amos was not born into a priestly class and did not grow up in preparation to be a temple or cult prophet.
	www.seamusgriesbach.net /writings/amos.htm (7438 words)

	Amos
		The third among the Minor Prophets of the Old Testament is called, in the Hebrew Text, "'Ams." The spelling of his name is different from that of the name of Isaias's father, Amoç; whence Christian tradition has, for the most part, rightly distinguished between the two.
		Yet it was to that most prosperous people, thoroughly convinced that God was well-pleased with them, that Amos was sent to deliver a stern rebuke for all their misdeeds, and to announce in God's name their forthcoming ruin and captivity (vii, 17).
		It is true that Amos argues in a concrete manner with his contemporaries, and that consequently he does not formulate abstract principles.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/a/amos.html (1855 words)

	Amos: Christian Resource Centre (Bermuda)!
		A prophet of the town of Tekoa, in Judah, whom God sent with a message to the northern kingdom, Israel.
		Prior to his call to the prophetic office Amos was a shepherd who devoted a part of his time to tending sycamore trees and gathering their fruit, which resembles figs (ch 7:14).
		Although from one of the humbler walks of life, Amos was a man of natural intelligence, of a deeply religious bent, and with shrewd powers of observance.
	www.nisbett.com /people/bp-amos.htm (216 words)

	Biblical Profile of Amos - The Kids Zone
		Sheepbreeder, sycamore cultivator, and prophet during the reign of Jeroboam II.
		The prophet who denounced the northern kingdom of Israel for its idolatry, injustice, corruption, and oppression of the poor.
		Amos' nine warnings of the Lord's judgment came to pass when Assyria overran Israel a generation later.
	www.christcenteredmall.com /kids/profiles/amosprofile.htm (75 words)

	What follows is an exercise in Biblical theology based on the Old Testament text of the prophecies of Amos
		Amos, therefore, who was not a prophet by profession, nor by his own choice, nor a member of the prophetic guild, was called and commissioned directly by Yahweh as his spokesman to Israel.
		Amos is supposed by some to have introduced the prophetic religion of ethical monotheism to Israel, the same having been developed by Hosea and later prophets.
		The prophets are not opposed to Mosaism, but to the mere formalism of hypocritically bringing the required sacrifice while at the same time rejecting the claims of the God they thus pretended to worship.
	home.insightbb.com /~drdilling/AMOSTEXT.htm (3696 words)

	Amos 7
		A practical lesson to be learnt from the prophet’s intercession on behalf of sinful Israel, is that we ought to have such concern for men’s souls as will impel us to intercede earnestly with God for their salvation, that intercession being accompanied by unremitting effort to present them with the Gospel.
		As noted in the introduction to this book, there is much to indicate that Amos was well educated, and at least reasonably well off, but in gracious self-effacement he mentioned none of this, dwelling rather on his being a “herdman, and gatherer of sycamore fruit,” and disclaiming any pretension relative to the prophetic office.
		Amos had been a “herdman, and a gatherer of sycamore fruit,” but now he was a prophet - by God’s ordination commanded to deliver God’s message to His people Israel.
	www.script7.org /amos_07.htm (2448 words)

	Current Study materials for the Upper Room (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Amos - borne; a burden, one of the twelve minor prophets.
		He was a man of humble birth, neither a "prophet nor a prophet's son," but "an herdman and a dresser of sycamore trees," R.V. He prophesied in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah, and was contemporary with Isaiah and Hosea (Amos 1:1; 7:14, 15; Zech.
		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.
	www.mdumc.org /default/upperoom/amos.htm (566 words)

	Amos - Christian Living
		Amos, who's name means "burden-bearer" in Hebrew, was a 'man of God,' He was a prophet from about 760 to 750 BC.
		He was not the son of a prophet or of a priest, nor did he have any of the credentials that were customary in that day.
		Amos began preaching against the surrounding pagan nations, but quickly moved on to denounce Israel, the northern kingdom and Judah, the southern kingdom.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art16379.asp (378 words)

	Book of Amos - Bible Survey
		Amos is a shepherd and a fruit picker from the Judean village of Tekoa when God calls him, even though he lacks an education or a priestly background.
		Amos begins by pronouncing a judgment upon all the surrounding nations, then upon his own nation of Judah, and finally the harshest judgment is given to Israel.
		Amos would be considered a "justa." He wasn't a prophet or priest or the son of either.
	www.gotquestions.org /Book-of-Amos.html (427 words)

	Amos The Fearless Prophet
		We can fancy the attention which would be given to the Prophet's message by the people of Israel as they would hear fall from his lips words descriptive of the troubles coming upon surrounding nations which were their enemies.
		For any one to undertake at the present time to copy either the Prophet Elijah or the Prophet Amos or any other of the ancient Prophets of Israel would indicate a total misapprehension on his part respecting the Divine will and the Divine message; indeed, it might even be surmised to indicate a mental unbalance.
		In verse 9the Prophet intimates that God's Power would be with the poor and oppressed for their deliverance; and that this would mean destruction against the strong and powerful, against those that hate reproof and abhor the upright, those that are in opposition to any who reprove unrighteousness.
	www.agsconsulting.com /htdbv5/r5805.htm (2171 words)

	Bible Book of the Month - Amos
		The Amos mentioned in the genealogy of Luke (3:25) is otherwise unknown.
		Personal History: Amos was not a prophet by profession, nor the son of a prophet (Amos 7:14).
		He met the opposition of the high priest Amaziah who reported the prophet to Jeroboam II and consequently Amos was ordered out of the country.
	home.hiwaay.net:8000 /~wgann/bbom/amos01.htm (1338 words)

	Zero to Hero: Amos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Amos’ words are directed to those who live in luxury while the poor struggle, and to the society that allows this to happen.
		Amos is certain that God and his judgment will come upon us, each one of us.
		Amos cried out against the oppression of his day and knew that God was displeased.
	www.gbgm-umc.org /simpson-evansville/ZerotoheroAmos.htm (1646 words)

	So You See Yourself as a Prophet? An Amos or a Jonah? (Eller)
		Both Amos and Jonah betray a certain reticence regarding their callings--though the significance is entirely different in the two cases.
		Under the guise of a "prophet of God," one sinful worldly (leftist) party that deems itself "holy" takes the opportunity to vent its spleen against another sinful worldly (rightist) party it has deemed "demonic." There is nothing of God in it--just political ideologies.
		Amos has the grace to say he is not a prophet, yet is as true a one as they come.
	www.hccentral.com /eller1/prophet.html (1428 words)

	Amos - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Amos, book of the Old Testament noted for its pastoral imagery and poetic language.
		It is attributed to the prophet Amos, a herdsman.
		Born Amos Klausner in Jerusalem shortly before the outbreak of World War II, he was educated at the Hebrew...
	au.encarta.msn.com /Amos.html (117 words)

	Amos: God Doesn't Play Favorites
		The message of Amos, one of the minor prophets of the Old Testament, is somewhat different from that of the rest of the prophets, and has been singled out as unique.
		And the prophet's word to this people was that because of this kind of worship, the nation of Assyria was being raised up by God to come sweeping down from the north to carry Israel away into captivity.
		As Amos goes on, he shows in a series of visions that were given to him that the nation is rapidly ripening for judgment.
	www.raystedman.org /adventure/0230.html (4056 words)

	The Grace Institute: The Prophets: Amos
		The prophecies of Amos are a warning to the people of Israel that their corrupt religion and disregard for the poor would result in the destruction of the nation.
		Not only was Amos not a professional, but he was not even a student (or “son of a prophet”) of a prophet.
		When Amos completes this set with the condemnation of Israel, his listeners would be forced to make the same conclusion: they had sinned in their treatment of people and that punishment would be inevitable and irrevocable.
	www.gcfweb.org /institute/prophet/amos.html (1886 words)

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