Amos preaches at Bethel
Amos, a shepherd from Judah, went north to prosperous Israel and denounced its injustice, empty worship, and oppression of the poor.
But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
Amos 5:24 (World English Bible)
Under Jeroboam II Israel was rich and religious, but the wealthy were selling the needy for a pair of sandals. Amos warned that God hated their feasts while justice was trampled. The priest of Bethel told him to go home; Amos replied that he was no professional prophet, just a herdsman God had sent.
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Dating notes
“Two years before the earthquake,” in the days of Uzziah and Jeroboam II (Amos 1:1), between 810 and 784 BC in Ussher's dates. The date shown is an estimate.