Discovery BoxAmos 1:7 
Context1:7 So I will set Gaza’s city wall 1 on fire;
fire 2 will consume her fortresses.
Amos 1:10
Context1:10 So I will set fire to Tyre’s city wall; 3
fire 4 will consume her fortresses.”
Amos 1:12
Context1:12 So I will set Teman 5 on fire;
fire 6 will consume Bozrah’s 7 fortresses.”
Amos 2:5
Context2:5 So I will set Judah on fire,
and it will consume Jerusalem’s fortresses.” 8
Amos 2:13
Context2:13 Look! I will press you down,
like a cart loaded down with grain presses down. 9
Amos 5:1
Context5:1 Listen to this funeral song I am ready to sing about you, 10 family 11 of Israel:
Amos 7:5
Context7:5 I said, “Sovereign Lord, stop!
How can Jacob survive? 12
He is too weak!” 13
Amos 8:1
Context8:1 The sovereign Lord showed me this: I saw 14 a basket of summer fruit. 15
1 sn The city wall symbolizes the city’s defenses and security.
2 tn Heb “it”; the referent (the fire mentioned in the previous line) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 sn The city wall symbolizes the city’s defenses and security.
4 tn Heb “it”; the referent (the fire mentioned in the previous line) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 sn Teman was an important region (or perhaps city) in Edom.
6 tn Heb “it”; the referent (the fire mentioned in the previous line) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
7 sn Bozrah was a city located in northern Edom.
8 map For the location of Jerusalem see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
9 tn The precise meaning of this verse is unclear. Various suggested meanings have been proposed (see S. M. Paul, Amos [Hermeneia], 94): (1) One option is to relate the verb to an Arabic verb, meaning “to hinder; to hamper,” and translate, “I am making you immobile, like a cart filled with grain is immobile.” In this case, the
10 tn Heb “Listen to this word which I am about to take up against you, a funeral song.”
11 tn Heb “house.”
12 tn Heb “stand.”
13 tn Heb “small.”
14 tn Heb “behold” or “look.”
15 sn The basket of summer fruit (also in the following verse) probably refers to figs from the summer crop, which ripens in August-September. See O. Borowski, Agriculture in Iron Age Israel, 115.
