7:1–9:15 Review · Visions and Exhortations about the End: It appears that chapters 7–9 were spoken while the prophet Amos was preaching in and around the temple at Bethel. The date is unknown, but Amaziah’s later attempt to exclude Amos from preaching in the Bethel temple (7:12) suggests these sermons were given near the end of his ministry in Israel.

7:1–6 · Amos’s first vision is about a locust plague that God sends to destroy Israel’s crops (7:1–3). Since the king has al…