⁵ The next section was repaired by the men of Tekoa,^(A) but their nobles would not put their shoulders to the work under their supervisors.^[a]

1 The words of Amos, one of the shepherds of Tekoa^(A)—the vision he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake,^(B) when Uzziah^(C) was king of Judah and Jeroboam^(D) son of Jehoash^[a] was king of Israel.^(E)