Discovery Box| (1.00) | (Act 7:43) | 6 sn A quotation from Amos 5:25-27. This constituted a prediction of the exile. |
| (1.00) | (Amo 9:5) | 6 sn See Amos 8:8, which is very similar to this verse. |
| (1.00) | (Amo 1:2) | 1 tn Heb “he;” the referent (Amos) has been specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (1.00) | (Dan 12:4) | 1 sn Many will dash about is probably an allusion to Amos 8:12. |
| (1.00) | (Eze 20:39) | 1 sn Compare the irony here to Amos 4:4 and Jer 44:25. |
| (1.00) | (Isa 33:12) | 1 tn Heb “will be a burning to lime.” See Amos 2:1. |
| (1.00) | (Isa 22:6) | 2 sn A distant region in the direction of Mesopotamia; see Amos 1:5; 9:7. |
| (0.88) | (Act 15:17) | 1 tn Or “so that all other people.” The use of this term follows Amos 9:11 LXX. |
| (0.88) | (Mic 6:11) | 1 sn Merchants also used rigged scales and deceptive weights to cheat their customers. See the note at Amos 8:5. |
| (0.88) | (Eze 32:18) | 1 tn The Hebrew verb is used as a response to death (Jer 9:17-19; Amos 5:16). |
| (0.88) | (Eze 12:18) | 1 tn The Hebrew term normally refers to an earthquake (see 1 Kgs 19:11; Amos 1:1). |
| (0.88) | (Eze 4:13) | 1 sn Unclean food among the nations. Lands outside of Israel were considered unclean (Josh 22:19; Amos 7:17). |
| (0.88) | (Isa 29:21) | 2 sn Legal disputes were resolved at the city gate, where the town elders met. See Amos 5:10. |
| (0.76) | (Amo 7:4) | 2 tc The Hebrew appears to read, “summoning to contend with fire,” or “summoning fire to contend,” but both are problematic syntactically (H. W. Wolff, Joel and Amos [Hermeneia], 292; S. M. Paul, Amos [Hermeneia], 230-31). Many emend the text to לרבב אשׁ, “(calling) for a shower of fire,” though this interpretation is also problematic (see F. I. Andersen and D. N. Freedman, Amos [AB], 746-47). |
| (0.75) | (Mar 15:33) | 3 sn This imagery has parallels to the Day of the Lord: Joel 2:10; Amos 8:9; Zeph 1:15. |
| (0.75) | (Mat 27:45) | 2 sn This imagery has parallels to the Day of the Lord: Joel 2:10; Amos 8:9; Zeph 1:15. |
| (0.75) | (Zec 14:5) | 3 sn The earthquake in the days of King Uzziah, also mentioned in Amos 1:1, is apparently the one attested to at Hazor in 760 b.c. |
| (0.75) | (Amo 4:3) | 2 tn The Hiphil verb form has no object. It may be intransitive (F. I. Andersen and D. N. Freedman, Amos [AB], 425), though many emend it to a Hophal. |
| (0.75) | (Amo 2:4) | 6 tn Heb “after which their fathers walked.” The expression “to walk after” is an idiom meaning “to be loyal to.” See S. M. Paul, Amos (Hermeneia), 75-76. |
| (0.75) | (Amo 1:5) | 6 sn According to Amos 9:7, the Arameans originally came from Kir. The Lord threatens to reverse their history and send them back there. |
