Amos

 

Introduction Amos 1:1-2

Judgment on Israel’s neighbors

Amos 1:3-15; 2:1-5

Damascus – capital of Aram

Amos 1:3

“For three sins…even four” – sinning again

Amos 1:3,6,9,11,13; 2:1,4,6

House of Hazel – king of Aram

Amos 1:4

Arameans going back to slavery in Kir

Amos 1:5

Philistia will be destroyed for its sins

Amos 1:7-8

Tyre – a major city in Phoenicia

Amos 1:9

Edom – descended from Esau

Amos 1:11-12

Ammon – descended from incestuous relationship between Lot & youngest daughter 

Amos 1:13-15

Moab – descended from incestuous relationship between Lot & oldest daughter  

Amos 2:1-3

Israel & Judah are guilty, too

Amos 2:4-6

Judgment on Israel (Israel condemned on five sins)

Amos 2:6-16

Upper class doing the poor wrong

Amos 2:6-7

Israel forgot its past

Amos 2:9-11

Nazirites – well disciplined for God

Amos 2:11

Nobody is tougher than God

Amos 2:16

Witnesses summoned against Israel

Amos 3:1-15

Israel was chosen by God

Amos 3:2

Two events linked together

Amos 3:3-6

God will send disaster to Israel

Amos 3:6

God reveals His plan to prophets

Amos 3:7

Ashdod – a pagan nation

Amos 3:9

Deep in sin to the point of forgetting what is right

Amos 3:10

The enemy – Assyria

Amos 3:11-12

Horns of the altar – protection

Amos 3:14

Israel has not returned to God

Amos 4:1-13

Cows of Bashan – wicked women

Amos 4:1

Sarcastically inviting people to sin

Amos 4:4

Constantly ignoring God

Amos 4:6-13

A lament & call to repentance

Amos 5:1-17

Lament – song of grief

Amos 5:1

Seek the Lord and live

Amos 5:6

Justice turned into bitterness

Amos 5:7

Look beyond the star constellations to the Creator

Amos 5:8

One who reproves in court – an honest judge

Amos 5:10-12

Treat the righteous & poor fairly

Amos 5:12

Hate evil, love good

Amos 5:15

A lot of mourning

Amos 5:16

The day of the Lord

Amos 5:18-27

Glorious for the faithful, doom for the unfaithful

Amos 5:18

Judgment is coming

Amos 5:18-24

God hates false worship

Amos 5:21-23

Lifting up idols, instead of God

Amos 5:26

Israel will be taken to Assyria

Amos 5:27

Woe to the complacent

Amos 6:1-7

Cities destroyed from pride

Amos 6:2

Wasting of riches

Amos 6:4

The Lord abhors the pride of Israel

Amos 6:8-14

Use your homes for service, not show

Amos 6:8-11

A picture of God’s fearful judgment

Amos 6:10

Assyria is stronger than Karnaim

Amos 6:13-14

Locusts, fire and a plumb line

Amos 7:1-9

Visions of Israel’s punishment

Amos 7:1-6

The plumb line…

Amos 7:7-9

Amos & Amaziah

Amos 7:10-17

Amos viewed as a traitor

Amos 7:10-12

Amaziah concerned only about his prestige

Amos 7:10-13

Amos explains his calling

Amos 7:14-15

A basket of ripe fruit

Amos 8:1-14

Using religion as a front for unethical practices

Amos 8:5-6

Famine of Scripture

Amos 8:11-13

Israel to be destroyed

Amos 9:1-10

Israel’s base of security will be destroyed

Amos 9:1

No one can escape God’s judgment

Amos 9:2-4

God is indifferent to different nations

Amos 9:7

God disciplines

Amos 9:8

House of Israel will be shaken

Amos 9:8-9

Israel’s restoration

Amos 9:11-15

Restoring David’s fallen tent

Amos 9:11-12

An abundance of crops

Amos 9:13

                                                              

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