Amos Notes

Amos 1

a 1:1 Compare 2 Kings 3:4

Amos 2

a 2:7 Or trample on

Amos 3

a 3:9 Following Masoretic Text; Septuagint reads Assyria.

b 3:12 The Hebrew is uncertain.

Amos 4

a 4:1 Literally their lords or their masters

b 4:4 Or years (compare Deuteronomy 14:28)

c 4:13 Or His

Amos 5

a 5:26 A pagan deity

b 5:26 Septuagint and Vulgate read tabernacle of Moloch.

c 5:26 A pagan deity

Amos 6

a 6:10 Literally bones

b 6:13 Literally Nothing

c 6:13 Literally Horns, symbol of strength

Amos 7

a 7:14 Compare 2 Kings 3:4

Amos 8

a 8:4 Or trample on (compare 2:7)

b 8:8 That is, the Nile; some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac, Targum, and Vulgate read River; Masoretic Text reads the light.

c 8:14 Or Ashima, a Syrian goddess

Amos 9

a 9:2 Or Sheol

b 9:5 That is, the Nile

c 9:11 Literally booth, figure of a deposed dynasty

d 9:12 Septuagint reads mankind.