Highlighted Activities Within Amos
The Book of Amos contains several different key activities and genres which are used to expound upon its themes. The following are a few examples:
- Oracles (or prophecies against the Gentile nations which surrounded Judah during the time of its writing (1.3-2.6)
- Address to different groups in Israel
- Women of Samaria (4.1-3)
- Rich persons in Samaria & Jerusalem (6.1-7; 8.4-8)
- Visions pertaining to God's judgment on Israel
- Locusts (7.1-3)
- Fire (7.4-6)
- A plumb line (7.7-9)
- A basket of fruit (8.1-3)
- God beside the altar (9.1-4)
- A confrontation between Amos and his listeners at Bethel (7.10-17)
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“I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)