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…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Joel+003   Joel 3 (ESV) 18 “And in that day the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the streambeds of Judah shall flow with water; and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the Lord and water the Valley of Shittim.  …

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Joel+002   Joel 2 (ESV) 28  “And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions. 29 Even on the male and female servants in those days I will…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Joel+001   JOEL INTRODUCTION The exact date of the book of Joel is difficult to know, since it does not refer to the reign of any particular king. The specific occasion of the book, however, is very clear and Joel uses this occasion to deliver a powerful spiritual message. The book…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Hosea+014   Hosea 14 (ESV) 1 Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity. 2 Take with you words and return to the Lord; say to him, “Take away all iniquity; accept what is good, and we will pay with bulls the vows of our lips. 3 Assyria shall not save us; we…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Hosea+013   Hosea 13 (ESV) 1 When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel, but he incurred guilt through Baal and died. 2 And now they sin more and more, and make for themselves metal images, idols skillfully made of their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. It is said of…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Hosea+012   Hosea 12 (ESV) 1 Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; they multiply falsehood and violence; they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt. The Lord’s Indictment of Israel and Judah 2 The Lord has an indictment against Judah and will punish Jacob according to his ways; he…