And Jerusalem from generation to generation.” (Ibid. 20.)
Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, lived in the days of Jeroboam, the son of Joash, King of Israel, and prophesied to the Kingdom of Israel from eight hundred and eight, to seven hundred and eighty-three years before the civil era:—
“And I will turn the captivity of My people Israel,
And they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them;...” (Amos ix. 14.)
“And I will plant them upon their land,
And they shall no more be plucked up
Out of their land which I have given them,
Saith the Lord thy God.” (Ibid. 15.)
Hosea, the son of Beeri, prophesied to the Kingdom of Israel, in the days of the same Jeroboam from about seven hundred and eighty-five, to seven hundred and twenty-five years before the civil era:—
“For the children of Israel shall sit solitary many days without king, and without prince,...” (Hosea iii. 4.)