Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

The earthquake

Bible References

The words

Jeremiah 1:1
The words of Hilkiah's son Jeremiah, who was one of the priests at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin.
Jeremiah 7:27
"You will tell them all these things, but they won't listen to you. You will call out to them, but they won't answer you.

Who

Amos 7:14
Amos replied in answer to Amaziah, "I am no prophet, nor am I a prophet's son, for I have been shepherding and picking the fruit of sycamore trees.
Exodus 3:1
Meanwhile, Moses continued tending the sheep that belonged to his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the sheep to the western desert and came to Horeb, God's mountain, where
1 Kings 19:19
Elijah left there and located Shaphat's son Elisha, who was plowing, along with a total of twelve pairs of oxen. (He was plowing with the twelfth pair.) As Elijah passed by, he tossed his cloak at Elisha.
Psalm 78:70
Then he chose his servant David, whom he took from the sheepfold.
Matthew 4:18
While Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers Simon (also called Peter) and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the sea, because they were fishermen.
1 Corinthians 1:27
But God chose what is nonsense in the world to make the wise feel ashamed. God chose what is weak in the world to make the strong feel ashamed.

He saw

Isaiah 1:1
This is the vision that Amoz's son Isaiah had about Judah and Jerusalem during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
Micah 1:1
This message from the LORD came to Micah of Moresheth during the reigns of the Judean kings Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah concerning the vision he saw about Samaria and Jerusalem:

In the

2 Kings 14:21
All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and installed him as King to take the place of his father Amaziah.
Hosea 1:1
A message from the LORD came to Beeri's son Hosea during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and during the reign of Joash's son Jeroboam, who was king of Israel.
Matthew 1:8
Asaph fathered Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat fathered Joram, Joram fathered Uzziah,

And in

Amos 7:9
Isaac's high places will be destroyed, and the sanctuaries of Israel will be ruined. I will rise in opposition to the house of Jeroboam with my sword."
2 Kings 14:23
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Amaziah son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam son of Joash, king of Israel, began a 41 year reign in Samaria.

The earthquake

Zechariah 14:5
You will run away through my mountain valley, because the valley of the mountains will extend as far as Azal. You will flee, as you fled from the earthquake during the reign of King Uzziah of Judah. And so the LORD my God will come, and all his holy ones will be accompanying you."

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