* Thus saith.
   Amos, says Abp. Newcome, first prophesies against the Syrians,
   Philistines, Tyrians, Edomites, Ammonites, and Moabites, who
   dwelt in the neighbourhood of the twelve tribes, and had
   occasionally become their enemies and persecutors.  Having
   thus taught his countrymen that the providence of God extended
   to other nations, he briefly mentions the idolatrous practices
   and consequent destruction of Judah, and then passes on to his
   proper subject, which was to exhort and reprove the kingdom of
   Israel, and to denounce against it the Divine judgments.

 * For three.
  6:3-7  2Ki 17:7-18  18:12  Eze 23:5-9  Ho 4:1,2,11-14  7:7-10  8:4-6 
  Ho 13:2,3  Mic 6:10-16 
 * because.
  5:11,12  8:4-6  Isa 5:22,23  29:21  Joe 3:3,6  Mic 3:2,3