Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:
An herdman
Bible References
An herdman
Amos 1:1
The words of Amos, who was among the shepherds from Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah the king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Jehoash, two years {before} the earthquake.
Zechariah 13:5
but he will say, "I [am] not a prophet; I am a tiller of the soil, for a man has acquired me since my youth."
1 Corinthians 1:27
But the foolish [things] of the world God chose in order that he might put to shame the wise, and the weak [things] of the world God chose in order that he might put to shame the strong,