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What made Amos vs. Amaziah weigh so heavily in the annals of history? I can only attempt a hint or an inkling of an answer.
I do so best by returning to the vision of Amos, as he…
The word that Isaiah son of Amoz prophesied concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
In the days to come,
The Mount of the Lord’s House
Shall stand firm above the mountains
And tower above the hills;
And…
Thus said the Lord: I have returned to Zion, and I will dwell in Jerusalem. Jerusalem will be called the City of Faithfulness, and the mount of the Lord of Hosts the Holy Mount.
Thus said the Lord…
Thus said the Lord to me: Go and stand in the People’s Gate, by which the kings of Judah enter and by which they go forth, and in all the gates of Jerusalem, and say to them: Hear the word of the…
In the fourth year of King Jehoiakim son of Josiah of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord:
Get a scroll and write upon it all the words that I have spoken to you—concerning Israel and…
And He said to me, “O mortal, stand up on your feet that I may speak to you.” As He spoke to me, a spirit entered into me and set me upon my feet; and I heard what was being spoken to me…
It was the year that the Tartan came to Ashdod— being sent by King Sargon of Assyria—and attacked Ashdod and took it. Previously, the Lord had spoken to Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, “Go, untie the…
Thus said my Lord God of Hosts: Go in to see that steward, that Shebna, in charge of the palace:
What have you here, and whom have you here,
That you have hewn out a tomb for yourself here?—
O…
This is the title page and the first page of Pitron ḥalomot (Dream Interpretation), a work incorrectly attributed to Hayya ben Sherira Ga’on. The book was published by Gershom ben Eliezer Soncino (d…
When, through God’s guiding grace,
The prophet Joshua and the Hebrews
Encamped before the town of Jericho,
Besieging it from every side,
They…