Literary and historical context · Prophecy
World, setting, and sequence
Keep places, audiences, sequence, and historical claims clearly labeled.
Use this page with the passage open. Follow the references, test each conclusion, and return to the whole book for context.
A clear route through the whole book
The units preserve the book’s order. Read the surrounding passage whenever a unit crosses a chapter boundary, and do not let a memorable verse replace the argument or story around it.
- Amos 1:1–2:16The shepherd from Tekoa announcing judgment over surrounding nations and Israel’s sale of the poor for gain
- Amos 3:1–15A trumpet alarming the city and luxurious winter and summer houses standing over injustice
- Amos 4:1–13Wealthy oppressors at Samaria contrasted with drought, blight, and repeated refusal to return
- Amos 5:1–27Crowded religious festivals rejected while justice is called to roll like waters through the city gate
- Amos 6:1–14Leaders reclining in luxury, making music, and ignoring the ruin of Joseph
- Amos 7:1–17The locust, fire, and plumb-line visions, followed by Amaziah ordering Amos to leave Bethel
- Amos 8:1–14The basket of summer fruit, merchants waiting to cheat with false measures, and a famine of hearing the Lord’s words
- Amos 9:1–15The altar vision of inescapable judgment moving toward David’s fallen shelter rebuilt and fields overflowing with harvest