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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Amos 1:1 - 1:1
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Amo 1:1-15. God’s judgments on Syria, Philistia, Tyre, Edom, and Ammon.
The words of Amos - that is, Amos’ oracular communications. A heading found only in Jer 1:1.
among the herdmen - rather, “shepherds”; both owning and tending sheep; from an Arabic root, “to mark with pricks,” namely, to select the best among a species of sheep and goats ill-shapen and short-footed (as others explain the name from an Arabic root), but distinguished by their wool [Maurer]. God chooses “the weak things of the world to confound the mighty,” and makes a humble shepherd reprove the arrogance of Israel and her king arising from prosperity (compare 1Sa 17:40).
which he saw - in supernatural vision (Isa 1:1).
two years before the earthquake - mentioned in Zec 14:5. The earthquake occurred in Uzziah’s reign, at the time of his being stricken with leprosy for usurping the priest’s functions [Josephus, Antiquities, 9:10.4]. This clause must have been inserted by Ezra and the compilers of the Jewish canon.