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Amos 1:15

Their king will go into exile — he and his princes together,” says the LORD.

Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain

WHERE
Ammon
WHEN
c. 760 BC
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WHEN

c. 760 BC

dated by the text itself

Dating by an earthquake assumes the reader knew which one it was.

WHO RULED

  • Jeroboam II king of Israel 793-753 BC
  • Uzziah king of Judah 792-740 BC
SOURCES
  • date — Amos 1:1 dates itself by two simultaneous reigns (Uzziah in Judah and Jeroboam II in Israel) and by an earthquake, two years before it.
  • Jeroboam II — 2 Kings 14:23-29; Amos 1:1 and Hosea 1:1 date their own prophecies by his reign; the Samaria ostraca
  • Uzziah — 2 Kings 15:1-7; 2 Chronicles 26; Isaiah 6:1, which dates the vision by the year of his death

SEE ALSO

Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0

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