<Li> God beside the altar (9.1--8a) </Li> <Li> Epilogue 9: 8b--15 </Li> <P> The book opens with a historical note about the prophet, then a short oracle announcing Yahweh's judgment (repeated in the Book of Joel). The prophet denounces the crimes against humanity committed by the gentile nations, tells Israel that even they have sinned and are guilty of the same crimes, and report five symbolic visions prophesying the destruction of Israel . Included in this, with no apparent order, are an oracle on the nature of prophecy, snippets of hymns, oracles of woe, a third - person prose narrative concerning the prophet, and an oracle promising restoration of the House of David, which had not yet fallen in Amos's lifetime . </P> <P> Amos prophesied during the reign of Jeroboam II, King of Israel, and of Uzziah of Judah, which places him in the first half of the 8th century BC . According to the book's superscription (Amos 1: 1) he was from Tekoa, a town in Judah south of Jerusalem, but his prophetic mission was in the northern kingdom . He is called a "shepherd" and a "dresser of sycamore trees", but the book's literary qualities suggest a man of education rather than a poor farmer . </P>

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