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Amos 1:1

Joel 4Amos 2

Amos 1:1 New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)

I. Editorial Introduction

Chapter 1

1 The words of Amos, who was one of the sheepbreeders from Tekoa, which he received in a vision concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.[a]

Footnotes:

  1. 1:1 The earthquake: a major earthquake during the reign of Uzziah (ca. 783–742 B.C.), so devastating that it was remembered long afterwards (cf. Zec 14:5). See the description of an earthquake in Amos’s final vision (9:1).
New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)

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Amos 9:1

Amos 8Obadiah 1

Amos 9:1 New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)

Chapter 9

Fifth Vision: The Destruction of the Sanctuary

1 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar. And he said:

Strike the capitals
    so that the threshold shakes!
    Break them off on the heads of them all!
Those who are left I will slay with the sword.
Not one shall get away,
    no survivor shall escape.[a]

Footnotes:

  1. 9:1 This vision may describe the destruction of the temple at Bethel and the fulfillment of the oracle in 3:14, linking God’s judgment upon Israel with the “punishment” of the altars of Bethel. This dramatic event (perhaps to be identified with the earthquake mentioned in 1:1) symbolizes the end of the Northern Kingdom as the Lord’s people, the consequence of their steadfast refusal to heed the prophetic word and return to the God of Israel.
New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)

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Amos 9:5

Amos 8Obadiah 1

Amos 9:5 New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)

5 The Lord God of hosts,
Who melts the earth with his touch,
    so that all who dwell on it mourn,
So that it will all rise up like the Nile,
    and subside like the river of Egypt;

New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)

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