Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
GOD'S JUDGMENTS ON SYRIA, PHILISTIA, TYRE, EDOM, AND AMMON. (Amos 1:1-15)
The words of Amos—that is, Amos' oracular communications. A heading found only in Jeremiah 1:1.
among the herdmen—rather, "shepherds"; both owning and tending sheep; from an Arabic root, "to mark with pricks," namely, to select the best among a species of sheep and goats ill-shapen and short-footed (as others explain the name from an Arabic root), but distinguished by their wool [MAURER]. God chooses "the weak things of the world to confound the mighty," and makes a humble shepherd reprove the arrogance of Israel and her king arising from prosperity (compare I Samuel 17:40).
which he saw—in supernatural vision (Isaiah 1:1).
two years before the earthquake—mentioned in Zechariah 14:5. The earthquake occurred in Uzziah's reign, at the time of his being stricken with leprosy for usurping the priest's functions [JOSEPHUS, Antiquities, 9:10.4]. This clause must have been inserted by Ezra and the compilers of the Jewish canon.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Amos 1:1:
2 Chronicles 26:16-21
Isaiah 5:25
Jeremiah 49:1
Ezekiel 13:3
Amos 1:1
Amos 4:11
Amos 7:14
Zechariah 14:5
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