Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Obadiah+001   OBADIAH INTRODUCTION When Judah’s capital city of Jerusalem fell to the Babylonian army in 587/6 BC, those in the neighboring kingdom of Edom joined in looting the city. They intercepted fleeing Judeans and turned them over to the Babylonians to be executed or enslaved. They showed no compassion even…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Amos+009   Amos 9 (ESV) The Restoration of Israel 11 “In that day I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen and repair its breaches, and raise up its ruins and rebuild it as in the days of old, 12 that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Amos+008   Amos 8 (ESV) 11 “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord God, “when I will send a famine on the land— not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord. 12 They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Amos+007   Amos 7 (ESV) 1 This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, he was forming locusts when the latter growth was just beginning to sprout, and behold, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings. 2 When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said,…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Amos+006   Amos 6 (ESV) 12 Do horses run on rocks? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood— 13 you who rejoice in Lo-debar, who say, “Have we not by our own strength captured Karnaim for ourselves?” 14 “For behold, I will raise up against you a…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Amos+005   Amos 5 (ESV) 21 “I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. 22 Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the peace offerings of your fattened animals, I will not look upon them. 23 Take away…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Amos+004   Amos 4 (ESV) 6 “I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places, yet you did not return to me,” declares the Lord. 7 “I also withheld the rain from you when there were yet three months to the harvest; I would send rain on one…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Amos+003   Amos 3 (ESV) 1 Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt: 2 “You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Amos+002   Amos 2 (ESV) 9 “Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars and who was as strong as the oaks; I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath. 10 Also it was I who brought you up out of the land…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Amos+001   AMOS INTRODUCTION The northern kingdom of Israel reached its greatest heights in the first half of the 8th century BC (2 Kings 14:23-25), during the forty-one-year reign of the powerful Jeroboam II. Confident in their nation’s victories, their worship, and their heritage, the people adopted the motto, “God is…