Highlighted Activities Within Amos
The Book of Amos contains several different key activities and genres which are used to expound upon its themes. The following are a few examples:
- Oracles (or prophecies against the Gentile nations which surrounded Judah during the time of its writing (1.3-2.6)
- Address to different groups in Israel
- Women of Samaria (4.1-3)
- Rich persons in Samaria & Jerusalem (6.1-7; 8.4-8)
- Visions pertaining to God's judgment on Israel
- Locusts (7.1-3)
- Fire (7.4-6)
- A plumb line (7.7-9)
- A basket of fruit (8.1-3)
- God beside the altar (9.1-4)
- A confrontation between Amos and his listeners at Bethel (7.10-17)
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