Amos receives visions of locusts and consuming fire and intercedes so that the LORD relents from those announced judgments. A third vision presents a plumbline: Israel has been measured and will no longer be passed by. Amaziah, priest of Bethel, reports Amos to Jeroboam II and orders him to leave; Amos answers that he was no professional prophet but was taken by the LORD and sent to Israel, then announces judgment on Amaziah’s house.
Amos receives visions of locusts and consuming fire and intercedes so that the LORD relents from those announced judgments. A third vision presents a plumbline: Israel has been measured and will no longer be passed by. Amaziah, priest of Bethel, reports Amos to Jeroboam II and orders him to leave; Amos answers that he was no professional prophet but was taken by the LORD and sent to Israel, then announces judgment on Amaziah’s house.
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