OUTLINE OF CONTENTS

1

• Amos receives a message from Jehovah (1, 2)

• Judgments for repeated revolts (3-15)

  • Syria (3-5), Philistia (6-8), Tyre (9, 10), Edom (11, 12), Ammon (13-15)

2

• Judgments for repeated revolts (1-16)

  • Moab (1-3), Judah (4, 5), Israel (6-16)

3

• Proclaiming God’s judgment (1-8)

  • God reveals his confidential matter (7)

• A message against Samaria (9-15)

4

• A message against the cows of Bashan (1-3)

• Jehovah scorns Israel’s false worship (4, 5)

• Israel refuses to accept discipline (6-13)

  • “Get ready to meet your God” (12)

  • ‘God tells man His thoughts’ (13)

5

• Israel like a fallen virgin (1-3)

• Search for God, and keep living (4-17)

  • Hate bad, and love good (15)

• Jehovah’s day, a day of darkness (18-27)

  • Israel’s sacrifices rejected (22)

6

• Woe to the complacent ones! (1-14)

  • Beds of ivory; bowls of wine (4, 6)

7

• Visions showing Israel’s end is near (1-9)

  • Locusts (1-3), fire (4-6), a plumb line (7-9)

• Amos told to stop prophesying (10-17)

8

• Vision of a basket of summer fruit (1-3)

• Oppressors condemned (4-14)

  • A spiritual famine (11)

9

• God’s judgments inescapable (1-10)

• David’s booth to be raised up (11-15)