²⁷ Next to him the Tekoites^(A) made repairs to another section from a point opposite the great tower that juts out, as far as the wall of Ophel.^(B)

1 The words of Amos, who was one of the sheep breeders^[a](A) from Tekoa^(B)—what he saw regarding Israel in the days of Uzziah,^(C) king of Judah, and Jeroboam^(D) son of Jehoash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.^(E)