John Amos Comenius (; ; ;

The Book of Amos is a prophetic book of the Hebrew Bible, one of the Twelve Minor Prophets.

Amos, however, is the first prophet whose name also serves as the title of the corresponding biblical book in which his story is found.

It is believed by most that Amos was a southern farmer, called by God to deliver his prophetic message in the North.

They believe that it is more probable that Amos was from the North because it has conditions more suitable for the cultivation of sycamore figs than the Tekoa of the South.

The Book of Amos is set in a time when the people of Israel have reached a low point in their devotion to the God of Israel-the people have become greedy and have stopped following and adhering to their values.

Through Amos, God tells the people that he is going to judge Israel for its sins, and it will be a foreign nation that will enact his judgment.

Amos is the first prophet to use the term " the Day of the LORD ".

However, Amos and other prophets include Israel as an enemy of God, as Israel is guilty of injustice toward the innocent, poor, and young women.

In the first two visions, Amos is able to convince God not to act out the scenes of discipline presented to him.

In the second set of visions ( 7: 7-9 ) there is no intercession by Amos, and God says that he " will never pass by them again.

The central idea of the book of Amos is that God puts his people on the same level as the surrounding nations-God expects the same purity of them all.

Other major ideas in the book of Amos include: social justice and concern for the disadvantaged ; the idea that Israel's covenant with God did not exempt them from accountability for sin ; God is God of all nations ; God is judge of all nations ; God is God of moral righteousness ; God made all people ; God elected Israel and then liberated Israel so that He would be known throughout the world ; election by God means that those elected are responsible to live according to the purposes clearly outlined to them in the covenant ; if God destroys the unjust, a remnant will remain ; and God is free to judge whether to redeem Israel.

The Masoretic text places Joel between Hosea and Amos ( the order inherited by the Tanakh and Old Testament ), while the Septuagint order is Hosea – Amos – Micah – Joel – Obadiah – Jonah.

So, according to Obadiah there will not remain even a remnant after Edom ’ s judgment ; This is in contrast to Amos 9: 12, where Amos refers to such a remnant, however, it is stated that their possession will be given to Israel.

Some scholars have suggested that Amos ’ s reference to Edom is symbolic of all nations who were once enemies of Israel and not meant to literally mean Edomites in the flesh.

This is certainly the perspective of Luke as he recites the passage from Amos in Acts 15: 17.

This passage in King's speech is a direct reference to Amos, as translated in the American Standard Version of the BibleJoshua Heschel " The Prophets ".

In order to do this, the film's producers unwisely decided to flesh out the story with a love triangle involving white characters, essentially making Amos and Andy minor characters in what was marketed as a film about them.

The Book of Amos is one of the twelve minor prophets.

He argues the name might have been changed to link the minor prophet Amos who made predictions concerning the messiah.

Amos was a prophet during the reign of Jeroboam ben Joash ( Jeroboam II ), ruler of Israel from 793 BC to 753 BC, and the reign of Uzziah, King of Judah, at a time when both kingdoms ( Israel in the North and Judah in the South ) were peaking in prosperity.

Amos also made it a point that before his calling he was a simple husbandman and that he was not a " professional " prophet of the prophetic guild.

Chapters seven to nine include visions that YHVH gave Amos as well as Amaziah's rebuke of the prophet.

The obligation imposed upon the Israelites was emphasized by the prophet Amos ():

Russian icon of Prophets Amos ( prophet ) | Amos and Obadiah, 18th century.

* Amos of Israel, future prophet and author of the Book of Amos ( according to Bible )

The prophets Amos and Hosea write of events during the 8th century kingdom of Israel ; the prophet Jeremiah writes of events preceding and following the fall of Judah ; Ezekiel writes of events during and preceding the exile in Babylon ; and other prophets similarly touch on various periods, usually those in which they write.

If the sluggard is rich, he should avoid getting that lazy insensitiveness of the chief people of Zion, that delight themselves in every way possible, and whom the prophet Amos predicted they would become slaves.

A major earthquake is referred to in the book of the prophet Amos.

According to this view, James decreed that Christianity was for the Gentiles and not just for the Jews, and quoted the prophet Amos in support of this position ( the Apostolic Decree is found in ).

The prophet Amos for a while also lived and worked at the sanctuary of Bet-El, which was increasingly seen as a symbol of national and religious schism.

Before becoming a prophet, Amos was a sheep herder and a sycamore fig farmer.

Amos ' prior professions and his claim " I am not a prophet nor a son of a prophet " () indicate that Amos was not from the school of prophets, which Amos claims makes him a true prophet ().

His name occurs in the Old Testament only in 2 Kings 13: 13 ; 14: 16, 23, 27, 28, 29 ; 15: 1, 8 ; 1 Chronicles 5: 17 ; Hosea 1: 1 ; and Amos 1: 1 ; 7: 9, 10, 11.

The etymology of the word into English is from Old French Philistin, from Classical Latin Philistinus found in the writings of Josephus, from Late Greek Philistinoi ( Phylistiim in the Septuagint ) found in the writings by Philo, from Hebrew Plištim, ( e. g. 1 Samuel 17: 36 ; 2 Samuel 1: 20 ; Judges 14: 3 ; Amos 1: 8 ), " people of Plešt " (" Philistia "); cf.

Others who recorded there include Daniel Amos, Poor Old Lu, Starflyer59 and Randy Stonehill.

* Preston City Historic District — Amos and Old Shetucket Roads, Northwest Corner Road, and Route 164 ( added August 31, 1987 )

The toy piano has been used extensively by alternative rock and post-rock bands such as Agitpop, Evanescence, Radiohead, Little Bang Theory, Warren Zevon, Tori Amos, Sigur Rós, Vampire Weekend, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Old Canes, and The Dresden Dolls.

In addition, he played German SS General Reinhard Heydrich both in the film Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil, and the television miniseries Holocaust ; as sinister millionaire recluse Amos Hackshaw in HBO's original 1991 film Cast a Deadly Spell, who plots to use the world's most powerful spell book – the Necronomicon – to unleash the Lovecraftian Old Ones from eternal imprisonment upon the Earth.

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* Amos ' n ' Andy – OTR – Old Time Radio ( 108 episodes )

Amos is an enthusiast of cricket and talked about her love of the game with Jonathan Agnew on Test Match Special during the lunch break of the first day of the England v New Zealand test at Old Trafford in May 2008.

* " Black Knight "/" Old John Amos " Dot ( 1964 ) London ( UK ) ( 1964 )

By 1942 The Lutheran Hour was receiving more mail than the well-known Amos ‘ n Andy radio program, and The Old Fashioned Revival Hour was the largest program on the Mutual Broadcasting System, purchasing 50 % more airtime than the next largest secular broadcaster.

: In the eve of a former Havenite admiral, Amos Parnell's arrival to Old Earth to testify against the excesses and crimes of the Havenite regime, Helen Zilwicki, daughter of Captain Anton Zilwicki of the Royal Manticoran Navy, finds herself in the midst of an underground fight between StateSec agents, anti-slavery terrorists, mercenaries and an unscrupulous supercorporation centered on the rogue planet of Mesa, " Manpower Incorporated ".

Don Was has earned his recognition as a record producer and has recorded with an array of artists from The Rolling Stones, Bonnie Raitt, Bob Dylan, John Mayer, Ziggy Marley, Bob Seger, Al Green, Lucinda Williams, Garth Brooks, Ringo Starr, Iggy Pop, Lyle Lovett, Kris Kristofferson, Joe Cocker, Hootie and The Blowfish, Amos Lee and Willie Nelson to Elton John, Stevie Nicks, George Clinton, Randy Newman, The Black Crowes, Carly Simon, Travis Tritt, Brian Wilson, Jackson Browne, The Barenaked Ladies, Old Crow Medicine Show, Roy Orbison, Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter, Richie Sambora, The Presidents of the United States of America, B. B.

A 1775 Amos Doolittle engraving depicting a bit of the action at the Old North Bridge, Concord, Massachusetts | North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts | Concord

# Amos ’ s Oracles against the Nations ( Society for Old Testament Study monograph series 6 ), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1980.

According to Jaynes, the older portions of the Old Testament ( such as the Book of Amos ) have few or none of the features of some later books of the Old Testament ( such as Ecclesiastes ) as well as later works such as Homer's Odyssey, which show indications of a profoundly different kind of mentality — an early form of consciousness.

Royal Crown Derby also continue to produce patterns in the Imari style, distinguished for its rich colours and intricate gilding, including the dinnerware ranges Old Imari, Traditional Imari, Red Aves, Blue Mikado ( designed by Thomas Amos Reed ), and Olde Avesbury.

This could be seen as John's fulfillments of prophecies in the Old Testament, such as in Amos 9: 13-14 and Genesis 49: 10-11 about the abundance of wine that there will be in the time of the messiah ( Brown 340 ).