Amos 1:1

Judgment on Israel's Neighbors

¹ The words of Amos, who was among the _a sheepbreeders of _b Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of _c Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of _d Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the _e earthquake.

1. Cross References
   2 Kings 3:4
   Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheepbreeder, and he regularly paid the king of Israel one hundred thousand lambs and the wool of one hundred thousand rams.
   Amos 7:14
   Then Amos answered, and said to Amaziah: "I was no prophet, Nor was I a son of a prophet, But I was a sheepbreeder And a tender of sycamore fruit.
   
2. Cross References
   2 Samuel 14:2
   And Joab sent to Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman, and said to her, "Please pretend to be a mourner, and put on mourning apparel; do not anoint yourself with oil, but act like a woman who has been mourning a long time for the dead.
   Jeremiah 6:1
   O you children of Benjamin, Gather yourselves to flee from the midst of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa, And set up a signal-fire in Beth Haccerem; For disaster appears out of the north, And great destruction.
   
3. Cross References
   2 Kings 15:1 - 7
   In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah the son of Amaziah, king of Judah, became king.
   2 Chronicles 26:1 - 23
   Now all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
   Isaiah 1:1
   The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
   Hosea 1:1
   The word of the LORD that came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
   
4. Cross References
   2 Kings 14:23 - 29
   In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, became king in Samaria, and reigned forty-one years.
   Amos 7:10
   Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.
   
5. Cross References
   Zechariah 14:5
   Then you shall flee through My mountain valley, For the mountain valley shall reach to Azal. Yes, you shall flee As you fled from the earthquake In the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Thus the LORD my God will come, And all the saints with You.