THE BOOK OF AMOS
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Smith, George Adam and Nicoll, W. Robertson (William Robertson), Sir
The genuineness of the bulk of the Book of Amos is not doubted by any critic. The only passages suspected as interpolations are the three references to Judah, the three famous outbreaks in praise of the might of Jehovah the Creator, the final prospect of a hope that does not gleam in any other part of the book, with a few clauses alleged to reflect a stage of history later than that in which Amos worked.[112] In all, these verses amount to only twenty-six or twenty-seven out of one hundred and forty-six. Each of them can be discussed separately as we reach it, and we may now pass to consider the general course of the prophecy which is independent of them.
The Book of Amos consists of Three Groups of Oracles, under one title, which is evidently meant to cover them all.
The title runs as follows:—
Words of 'Amoṣ—who was of the herdsmen of Teḳôa'—which he saw concerning Israel in the daysof 'Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jarab'am son of Joash,[113]king of Israel: two years before the earthquake.
The Three Sections, with their contents, are as follows:—