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.

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.

The prophet, though blind with old age, knew the wife of Jeroboam as soon as she approached, and under a divine impulse he announced to her that inasmuch as in Abijah alone of all the house of Jeroboam there was found " some good thing toward the Lord ," he only would come to his grave in peace.

The apostasy of the people was rampant, having turned away from God in order to serve the calves of Jeroboam II and Baal, a Canaanite god.

Set in the reign of Jeroboam II ( 786-746 BC ), it was probably written in the post-exilic period, sometime between the late fifth to early fourth century BC.

The Jonah mentioned in II Kings 14: 25 lived during the reign of Jeroboam II ( 786-746 BC ) and was from the city of Gath-hepher.

Jeroboam ( Hebrew: yarobh ` am, Hieroboam ) was the first king of the northern Israelite Kingdom of Israel after the revolt of the ten northern Israelite tribes against Rehoboam that put an end to the United Monarchy.

While still young, Jeroboam was promoted by Solomon to be chief superintendent of the " burnden ", i. e. the bands of forced laborers.

The conduct of Rehoboam favored the designs of Jeroboam, and he was accordingly proclaimed " king of Israel ".

According to, while Jeroboam was engaged in offering incense at Bethel, a " man of God " warned him that " a son named Josiah will be born to the house of David " who would destroy the altar ( referring to King Josiah of Judah who would rule approximately three hundred years later ).

Jeroboam was crippled by this severe defeat to Abijah and posed little threat to the Kingdom of Judah for the rest of his reign.

Jeroboam II from " Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum " Jeroboam II (; ; ) was the son and successor of Jehoash, ( alternatively spelled Joash ), and the fourteenth king of the ancient Kingdom of Israel, over which he ruled for forty-one years.

Jeroboam's reign was also the period of the prophets Hosea, Joel, Jonah and Amos, all of whom condemned the materialism and selfishness of the Israelite elite of their day: " Woe unto those who lie upon beds of ivory ... eat lambs from the flock and calves ... sing idle songs ..." The book of Kings, written a century later condemns Jeroboam for doing " evil in the eyes of the Lord ", meaning both the oppression of the poor and his continuing support of the cult centres of Dan and Bethel, in opposition to the temple in Jerusalem.

Near the end of his life Solomon was forced to contend with several enemies including Hadad of Edom, Rezon of Zobah, and one of his officials named Jeroboam who was from the tribe of Ephraim.

Jeroboam was crippled by this severe defeat at the hands of his southern rival, and posed little threat to the Kingdom of Judah for the rest of his reign.

The first king of the Northern Kingdom of Israel was Jeroboam, who came from the Tribe of Ephraim.

Shechem was the place appointed, after Solomon's death, for the meeting of the people of Israel and the investiture of Roboam ; the meeting ended in the secession of the ten northern tribes, and Sichem, fortified by Jeroboam, became for a while the capital of the new kingdom ( 1 Kings 12: 1 ; 14: 17 ; 2 Chronicles 10: 1 ).

According to the biblical narrative, Jeroboam, who became the first king of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, was also from the house of Ephraim.

Amos dated his prophecy to " two years before the earthquake, when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel " ( Amos 1: 1, NIV ).

# A son of Jeroboam, the first king of Israel.

Jonah son of Amittai appears in 2 Kings as a prophet from Gath-hepher ( a few miles north of Nazareth ) active during the reign of Jeroboam II ( c. 786-746 BC ), where he predicts that Jeroboam will recover certain lost territories.

In all other passages it is Jeroboam I, the son of Nebat that is meant.

* 909 BC: Jeroboam, the first king of the northern Hebrew kingdom of Israel, dies and is succeeded by his son Nadab.

* 909 BC — Jeroboam, the first king of the northern Hebrew kingdom of Israel, dies and is succeeded by his son Nadab.

* 928 BC — On the death of King Solomon, his son Rehoboam is unable to hold the tribes of Israel together, and the northern part secedes to become the kingdom of Israel, making Jeroboam its king.

He not only considered it trivial to commit the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, but he also married Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and began to serve Baal and worship him.

However, on the accession of Rehoboam, Solomon's son, in c. 930 BCE, the northern tribes under the leadership of Jeroboam from the Tribe of Ephraim split from the House of David to reform a Kingdom of Israel as the Northern Kingdom.

Amos says that the earthquake was in the days of Uzziah king of Judah and Jeroboam ( II ), son of Jehoash king of Israel.

According to an unnamed " man of God " Iddo had prophesied to King Jeroboam of Israel, approximately three hundred years earlier, that " a son named Josiah will be born to the house of David " and that he would destroy the altar at Bethel.

He was the son and successor of Jeroboam.

He said that the Jews of his own kingdom derived from the tribe of Dan, which had fled the civil war in the Kingdom of Israel between Solomon's son Rehoboam and Jeroboam the son of Nebat, by resettling in Egypt.

After the death of King Solomon son of David, the ten northern tribes of the Kingdom of Israel rejected the Davidic line, refusing to accept Rehoboam son of Solomon, and instead chose as king Jeroboam and formed the northern Kingdom of Israel.

The name Jeroboam () is commonly held to have been derived from riyb () and ` am (), and signifying " the people contend ," or, " he pleads the people's cause " It is alternatively translated to mean " his people are many " or " he increases the people " ( from ( rbb ), meaning to increase ); or even " he that opposes the people ".

On floor: Wine bottle # Sizes | Balthazar ( 12 litres ), Wine bottle # Sizes | Salmanazar ( 9 litres ), Wine bottle # Sizes | Methuselah ( 6 litres ), Wine bottle # Sizes | Jeroboam ( 3 litres )

Side-by-side comparison of champagne bottles ( left to right ), on the ladder: magnum, full, half and quarter ; on the floor: Balthazar, Salmanazar, Methuselah and Jeroboam

He waged a major battle against Jeroboam in the mountains of Ephraim.

He waged a major battle against King Jeroboam of Israel in the mountains of Ephraim.

At that time, many northerners, particularly from the tribes Ephraim and Manasseh, migrated to the Kingdom of Judah because of the fruitful golden age in Judah, and the internal conflict in Israel after the fall of the dynasty of Jeroboam I.

This " man of God " who warned Jeroboam has been equated with a seer named Iddo.

And the only exception to this destruction was for the grave of an unnamed prophet he found in Bethel (), who had foretold that these religious sites Jeroboam erected would one day be destroyed ( see ).

Dtr1 saw Israel's history as a contrast between God's judgement on the sinful northern kingdom of Jeroboam I ( who set up the golden calves to be worshiped ) and virtuous Judah, where faithful king David had reigned and where now the righteous Josiah was reforming the kingdom.

) as “ an attack on the northern kingdom of Israel .” The second explanation relies on the “ sin of Jeroboam ,” who was the first king of the northern kingdom, as the cause of the northern kingdom ’ s fall to Assyria in 722 BCE.

Among his actions was a siege of Damascus in the time of Ben-Hadad III in 796 BCE, which led to the eclipse of the Aramaean Kingdom of Damascus and allowed the recovery of Israel under Jehoash ( who paid the Assyrian king tribute at this time ) and Jeroboam II.