Annotated Outline of Amos

Amos

1. Prophecies against six Gentile powers (Amos 1:1-2:3; cp. Isa. 13-23; Jer. 45-51; Ez. 25-32; Zeph. 2)  (1:1-15)
   1. Title, author, and historical background (2 Ki. 14:23-15:7; 2 Chr. 26)  (1:1)
   2. Announcement of judgment  (1:2)
   100. Against Damascus (Isa. 17:1)  (1:3-5)
   4. Against Philistia (Isa. 14:28)  (1:6-8)
   5. Against Tyre (Ez. 26:1, refs.)  (1:9-10)
   6. Against Edom (Jer. 49:7, refs.)  (1:11-12)
   7. Against Ammon (Jer. 49:1, refs.)  (1:13-15)
2. Against Moab (Isa. 15:1, refs.)  (2:1-16)
   1. Prophecies against Judah and Israel (Amos 2:4-16)  (2:4-5)
      1. Against Judah by Babylon (Isa. 13-14)  (2:4-5)
   2. Against Israel by Assyria (2 Ki. 17)  (2:6-16)
3. Controversy: God and "the whole house of Israel" (Amos 3:1-4:13)  (3:1-15)
   1. Call to hear and answer  (3:1-8)
   2. Call to see Israel's sins  (3:9-10)
   100. Captivity to Assyria  (3:11-15)
4. Sins and judgment of Israel  (4:1-13)
   1. Israel's hypocrisy at Bethel  (4:4-5)
   2. God's five judgments have not broken Israel, but hardened her  (4:6-11)
   100. Meeting with God inevitable  (4:12-13)
5. Lamentations, judgments, and admonitions (Amos 5:1-6:4)  (5:1-6:14)
   1. Lamentation: Israel's destruction to be 90 per cent  (5:1-3)
   2. Threefold admonition to avert judgment  (5:4-9)
   100. Tenfold sins and judgment  (5:10-13)
   4. Fourfold admonition to avert coming judgment  (5:14-15)
   5. Fivefold lamentation: reason  (5:16-17)
   6. Woe to those who desire the day of the Lord: reason  (5:18-20)
   7. Sevenfold hypocrisy  (5:21-24)
   8. Idolatry and judgment  (5:25-27)
   1. Woe to those that are at ease in Zion and trust in men  (6:1-6)
   10. Captivity to Assyria  (6:7-14)
6. Signs-prophecies (Amos 7:1-9:15)  (7:1-17)
   1. Grasshoppers: destruction  (7:1-3)
   2. Fire: destruction  (7:4-6)
   100. Plumbline: no more mercy  (7:7-9)
   4. Amaziah charges Amos before the king and orders him away  (7:10-13)
   5. Answer of Amos to Amaziah  (7:14-17)
7. Basket of summer fruit: Israel soon to perish  (8:1-14)
   1. Ten sins of Israel  (8:4-6)
   2. Judgment and wanderings  (8:7-14)
8. Striking the lintel: complete destruction  (9:1-15)
   1. Final prophecy of dispersion  (9:5-10)
   2. Restoration of David's kingdom under Messiah (Acts 15:13-17; Isa. 9:6, refs.)  (9:11-12)
   100. Future restoration of Israel  (9:13-15)