Amos

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Chapters in Amos

1. Amos 1: Judgment on the Surrounding Nations

   Amos, a shepherd from Tekoa, announces the LORD's judgment on Israel's neighbors. Damascus, Gaza, Tyre, Edom, and Ammon are each condemned for a specific act of cruelty, from crushing Gilead and selling captives to relentless war on a brother nation, and each will be punished by fire.

2. Amos 2: Moab, Judah, and Israel Indicted

   The LORD condemns Moab for desecrating the remains of Edom's king and Judah for rejecting His law. The series then lands on Israel, charged with selling the poor, oppression, and corrupt worship despite the LORD's rescue from Egypt, and warned that no strength will let anyone escape.

3. Amos 3: Chosen and Therefore Accountable

   The LORD tells Israel that because He chose them alone among the nations, He will punish them for their sins. Amos explains through cause-and-effect questions that disaster comes from the LORD, who warns through His prophets, and he announces ruin for Samaria, its altars at Bethel, and its luxurious houses.

4. Amos 4: Israel Refuses to Return

   Amos condemns the wealthy women of Samaria for oppressing the poor and mocks Israel's showy worship at Bethel and Gilgal. God recounts five disasters He sent to call Israel back, yet each time they refused, so He summons them to face Him, the Creator of all.

5. Amos 5: A Lament and a Call to Seek God

   Amos mourns Israel as already fallen and calls the people to seek God rather than their shrines, to love good, and to uphold fair courts. He warns that the coming day of judgment will bring darkness, that God rejects worship offered without justice, and that exile is coming.

6. Amos 6: Woe to the Complacent

   Amos pronounces woe on the comfortable leaders of Jerusalem and Samaria who feast in luxury but feel no sorrow over their nation's ruin, and he says they will be first into exile. God swears by Himself that He hates Israel's pride, and because they boast in their own strength He will send a nation to oppress them.

7. Amos 7: Three Visions and Amaziah's Opposition

   Amos sees visions of locusts and of fire and pleads for Israel, and the LORD holds back both judgments. A third vision of a plumb line shows that God will hold back no longer. Amaziah, priest of Bethel, accuses Amos of conspiracy and orders him out, and Amos answers with his call from herding and a judgment on Amaziah.

8. Amos 8: The Summer Fruit Vision

   Amos sees ripe summer fruit in a basket, a sign that Israel's end has come. The LORD condemns merchants who cheat the poor and swears to remember their deeds, then warns of midday darkness, bitter mourning, a famine of His word, and the fall of those who take oaths by false shrines.

9. Amos 9: Restoring David's Fallen Tent

   Amos sees the Lord beside the altar announcing a judgment no one can escape, though He will not wipe out all of Jacob's descendants. The book closes with God's promise to rebuild David's fallen house, bring the nations under His name, and replant His people in a fruitful land.