CHAPTER XVIII

AMOS AND HOSEA--ZACHARIAH BEN-JEROBOAM (B.C. 740) 193

Amos describes the condition of Israel--Growth of usury and vice--Humble origin of Amos--His burdens--Degenerations of the "calf-worship"--Uncompromising denunciation--Collision of Amos with Amaziah the high priest at Bethel--His expulsion from Bethel--The curse denounced--His justification of his mission--Hosea the saddest of the prophets--His pictures of Ephraim--Jeroboam II.--His death--His son Zachariah--His desertion and shameful end.