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.

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 ".

The first speaker was Amos C. Barstow who had been unanimously chosen president of the meeting.

Amos Bronson, the oldest of eight children, later changed the spelling to " Alcott " and dropped his first name.

Amos, an older contemporary of Hosea and Isaiah, was active c. 750 BC during the reign of Jeroboam II, making the Book of Amos the first biblical prophetic book written.

While this theory, first propounded by Ernst von Dobschütz and Rudolf Bultmann, is not universally accepted, Amos Wilder writes that, " it is at least clear that there are considerable and sometimes continuous elements in the epistle whose style distinguishes them from that of the author both with respect to poetic structure and syntactic usage.

Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman first proposed that the gambler's fallacy is a cognitive bias produced by a psychological heuristic called the representativeness heuristic, which states that people evaluate the probability of a certain event by assessing how similar it is to events they have experienced before, and how similar the events surrounding those two processes are.

In 1858 ( when she was 39 ) Amos Barton, the first of the Scenes of Clerical Life, was published in Blackwood's Magazine and, along with the other Scenes, was well received.

One of the first relevant successful covers was Wynonie Harris's transformation of Roy Brown's 1947 original jump blues hit " Good Rocking Tonight " into a more showy rocker and the Louis Prima rocker " Oh Babe " in 1950, as well as Amos Milburn's cover of what may have been the first white rock and roll record, Hardrock Gunter's " Birmingham Bounce " in 1949.

After returning the opening kickoff 17 yards, San Francisco's Amos Lawrence was hit by Bengals linebacker Guy Frazier and fumbled at his own 26-yard line ( the first time in a Super Bowl that a turnover took place on the opening kick ), where John Simmons recovered for Cincinnati.

Amos first came to local notice by winning a county teen talent contest in 1977, singing a song called " More Than Just a Friend ".

The album is Amos's first concept album, with artwork featuring Amos photographed in character of the women portrayed in each song.

Continuing her distribution deal with Universal Republic, Amos released Midwinter Graces, her first seasonal album, in November of the same year.

In September 2011, Amos released her first classical music album, Night of Hunters, featuring variations on a theme to pay tribute to such renowned composers as Bach, Chopin, Debussy, Granados, Satie and Schubert, through the Deutsche Grammophon label, a division of Universal Music Group.

As of 2011, Amos has released 12 solo studio albums during her solo career ; all but the first two are self-produced.

Amos, who has been performing in bars and clubs from as early as 1976 and under her professional name as early as 1991 has performed more than 1, 000 shows since her first world tour in 1992.

The first part of the tour, which featured Amos on piano, Rhodes, and Wurlitzer, was six months long and Amos went out again in the summer of 2003 for a tour with Ben Folds opening.

The party conducted the first presidential nominating convention in U. S. history in the 1832 elections, nominating William Wirt ( a former Mason ) for President and Amos Ellmaker for Vice President in Baltimore.

Founded by Amos Sutton Hayden of the Disciples of Christ Church in 1850, the institution has, since its first days, been nonsectarian and coeducational, and throughout its existence Hiram College has sustained this egalitarian tradition of educating men and women from diverse backgrounds.

The first principal of the Institute ( equivalent to today's president of the College ) was Amos Sutton Hayden ( 1813 – 1880 ), who served from 1850 until 1857.

The first white settlement in the county was made in 1791 by Amos Todd, Joseph Beebe and Rhoda Todd Beebe, emigrants from Connecticut who paddled up the Tioughnioga River from Windsor, to live near the head of navigation in the Town of Homer.

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.

Amos (; ) is a minor prophet in the Old Testament, and the author of the Book of Amos.

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 ().