What's In It?

Question 1

What is in Amos 1?

Answer 1

Judgement on:
Damascus
Gaza
Tyre
Edom
Ammon

Question 2

What is in Amos 2?

Answer 2

Judgement on:
Moab
Judah
Israel

Question 3

What is the refrain from Amos 1 and 2?

Answer 3

For three sins of ___ even for four, I will not turn my wrath.

Question 4

Verse against Judah + ref?

Answer 4

Because they have rejected the law of the Lord and have not kept his decrees 2:4b

Question 5

Verse against Israel + ref?

Answer 5

They sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals. 2:6b

Question 6

What is in Amos 3?

Answer 6

I am not kidding - “Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.”

You will be all but destroyed - “As a shepherd saves from the lion’s mouth only two leg bones or a piece of an ear, so will the Israelites be saved,”

Question 7

Where and what is the verse about the winter house and the summer house?

Answer 7

Amos 3:15a

“I will tear down the winter house along with the summer house;”

Question 8

Do two walk together unless they have agreed to do so - ref = ?

Answer 8

Amos 3:3

Question 9

What is in Amos 4?

Answer 9

List of warnings + “yet you have not returned to me,”
People - food / water
Gardens - blight / mildew / locusts
People - Raids / Fire (?)

Question 10

Amos 4:13?

Answer 10

He who forms the mountains,
who creates the wind,
and who reveals his thoughts to mankind,
who turns dawn to darkness,
and treads on the heights of the earth –
the Lord God Almighty is his name.

Question 11

What is in Amos 5?

Answer 11

Seek the Lord and live
DOTL darkness not light
God despises your religion
I will send you into exile

Question 12

Amos 5:18?

Answer 12

Woe to you who long
for the day of the Lord!
Why do you long for the day of the Lord?
That day will be darkness, not light.

Question 13

What is in Amos 6?

Answer 13

Woe to the complacent powerful
Inspect yourselves
You don’t grieve over the ruin of Joseph
A nation will oppress you from Hamath to the Valley of the Arabah

Question 14

What is in Amos 7?

Answer 14

Locusts, fire and a plumb line
Amaziah sends message to Jeroboam about Amos conspiracy
Amos prophesies agains Amaziah
wife - prostitute
sons and daughters - fall by the sword
he will die in a pagan nation

Question 15

What is in Amos 8?

Answer 15

A basket of ripe fruit
“The time is ripe for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer” (2b)
Says why - dishonest market, abusing poor
A famine of God’s word

Question 16

What is in Amos 9?

Answer 16

Israel will be destroyed
None will escape
Description of the Lord almighty v5-6
Why do you think you are special over any other nation?
God will shake them like grain in a sieve (righteous saved)
In that day - new wine, Israel never uprooted again

Question 17

Amos 9:7?

Answer 17

‘Are not you Israelites
    the same to me as the Cushites?’[a]
declares the Lord.
‘Did I not bring Israel up from Egypt,
    the Philistines from Caphtor[b]
    and the Arameans from Kir?