Amos pronounces judgment on Israel’s enemies, before delivering the main burden of judgment against Israel herself. His courageous and unusually stern prophesy was issued primarily at Bethel, the seat of idolatry in the northern kingdom. He attacks Satan’s stronghold, Bethel, and when he is opposed by the idolatrous priest, Amaziah, becomes even bolder in his preaching. Amos was God’s messenger to call the nation Israel to become responsible and accountable to the national sins she had committed against God.
Amos 1
1:1-2 Judgments on Israel’s neighbors
1:3-5 Damascus
1:6-8 Gaza
1:9-10 Tyrus
1:11-12 Edom
1:13-15 Ammon
Amos 2
2:1-3 Moab
2:4-5 Judah
2:6-16 Judgment on Israel
Amos 3
3:1-8 The lion roars
3:9-15 The condemnation of Samaria
Amos 4
4:1-3 The depravity of Israel
4:4-13 God’s punishments have not reformed Israel
Amos 5
5:1-27 A call to repentance
Amos 6
6:1-14 The judgment on Israel
Amos 7
7:1-3 The grasshoppers
7:4-6 The fire
7:7-9 The plumb line
7:10-17 Amos and Amaziah
Amos 8
8:1-3 The basket of summer fruit
8:4-14 The imminent judgment
Amos 9
9:1-10 The Lord’s judgments inescapable
9:11-15 The future restoration of Israel
