History Globe
Tour · c. 760 BC
Amos: the words against the nations
Tekoa Amos 1:1–2
"The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa": a shepherd of Judah sent to Israel, two years before the earthquake.
Open on the map →Damascus Amos 1:3–5 · ≈ 235 km in a straight line
"For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four": they threshed Gilead with iron; the people of Syria shall go captive to Kir.
Open on the map →Gaza Amos 1:6–8 · ≈ 280 km in a straight line
Gaza carried a whole people away captive to deliver them up to Edom: fire on its wall, and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish.
Open on the map →Tyre Amos 1:9–10 · ≈ 210 km in a straight line
Tyre delivered up captives to Edom and remembered not the brotherly covenant.
Open on the map →Bozrah Amos 1:11–12 · ≈ 285 km in a straight line
Edom pursued his brother with the sword: "I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah."
Open on the map →Rabbah Amos 1:13–15 · ≈ 140 km in a straight line
The Ammonites ripped up the women of Gilead to enlarge their border: fire in the wall of Rabbah, and their king goes into captivity.
Open on the map →Kerioth Amos 2:1–3 · ≈ 52 km in a straight line
Moab burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime: fire shall devour the palaces of Kerioth.
Open on the map →Jerusalem Amos 2:4–5 · ≈ 50 km in a straight line
Judah too: they despised the law of the Lord; "I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem."
Open on the map →Samaria Amos 2:6–4:3 · ≈ 56 km in a straight line
Last and longest, Israel: they sell the righteous for silver and the poor for a pair of shoes. The nations are called to the mountains of Samaria to see its oppressions, and the "kine of Bashan" shall be led away with hooks.
Open on the map →Gilgal Amos 4:4–13 · ≈ 50 km in a straight line
The sacrifices at Bethel and Gilgal only multiply transgression; famine, drought, blight and plague did not bring Israel back. Prepare to meet thy God.
Open on the map →Beersheba Amos 5:1–27 · ≈ 92 km in a straight line
A lament over the virgin of Israel: "seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba"; seek the Lord, and let judgment run down as waters.
Open on the map →Bethel Amos 7:10–17 · ≈ 84 km in a straight line
Amaziah the priest of Bethel reports Amos to Jeroboam and sends him away to Judah: "prophesy not again any more at Beth-el: for it is the king's chapel". Amos answers that he was no prophet nor a prophet's son, but the Lord took him from the flock.
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