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Time after Pentecost · Proper 10 · Year B

Amos 7:7-15

The Plumb Line and Amos at Bethel

July 11, 2027

Shepherds with a Flock of Sheep, Ivan Aivazovsky
Shepherds with a Flock of Sheep, Ivan Aivazovsky, 1872National Museum in Warsaw
A rare inland subject from the great painter of the sea: a flock under a wide evening sky in the Crimean hills.I am no prophet, nor a prophet's son; I am a herdsman. Amos insists on his day job, and this is it.Ivan AivazovskyA Russian-Armenian marine painter (1817-1900) who produced around six thousand pictures of the sea, almost all of them from memory rather than from studies.National Museum in WarsawPoland's principal art museum, rebuilt and restocked after the systematic looting and destruction of the Second World War.National Museum in Warsaw
LSB Three-Year Lectionary
GospelMark 6:14-29Mk 6:14-29
EpistleEph. 1:3-14Eph 1:3-14
Old TestamentAmos 7:7-15Am 7:7-15
PsalterPs. 85:(1-7) 8-13Ps 85:(1-7) 8-13

Overview & Insights

"See, I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel." (Amos 7:8)

God shows Amos a plumb line measuring Israel's crookedness, and when Amaziah the priest of Bethel orders Amos to stop prophesying, Amos answers that the Lord took him from herding to prophesy.

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Commentary

Working Preacher: Commentary on Amos 7:7-15Working Preacher: Commentary on Am 7:7-15 Working Preacher

Lutheran lectionary commentary on the plumb line and Amaziah.

Enduring Word: Amos 7Enduring Word: Am 7 Enduring Word · David Guzik

David Guzik's verse-by-verse evangelical notes on the whole chapter.

Precept Austin: Amos 7 CommentaryPrecept Austin: Am 7 Commentary Precept Austin

Detailed study gathering many commentators on the plumb line vision.

BibleHub: Commentaries on Amos 7:7BibleHub: Commentaries on Am 7:7 BibleHub

Parallel classic commentaries keyed to the plumb line verse.

CEP: Amos 7:7-17 CommentaryCEP: Am 7:7-17 Commentary Center for Excellence in Preaching

Reformed preaching commentary on the plumb line and the clash with Amaziah.

Background & Word Study

BibleProject: Amos OverviewBibleProject: Am Overview BibleProject

Animated overview of the message and structure of Amos.

Sefaria: Amos 7 (Hebrew)Sefaria: Am 7 (Hebrew) Sefaria

Hebrew text with English and classical Jewish commentary on the chapter.

BibleHub: Amos 7 InterlinearBibleHub: Am 7 Interlinear BibleHub

Hebrew-English interlinear for word-level study of the chapter.

The Church Fathers

Catena: Amos 7Catena: Am 7 Catena

Patristic comments gathered verse by verse on Amos 7.

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