Who was Amoz?

The story of Amoz

Amoz is the father of the prophet Isaiah. Scripture mentions him only in the phrase Isaiah the son of Amoz, which identifies his son at the head of the book of Isaiah and its oracles (Isaiah 1:1; Isaiah 2:1; Isaiah 13:1) and in accounts of Isaiah's ministry. The phrase appears when King Hezekiah sends Eliakim, Shebna and the elders of the priests to Isaiah during the Assyrian threat (2 Kings 19:2; Isaiah 37:2), when Isaiah sends the LORD's answer concerning Sennacherib (2 Kings 19:20), and when Isaiah tells the sick Hezekiah to set his house in order (2 Kings 20:1; Isaiah 38:1).

Chronicles uses the same phrase when it notes that Isaiah wrote the acts of Uzziah and that the acts of Hezekiah are written in Isaiah's vision (2 Chronicles 26:22; 2 Chronicles 32:32). Scripture records no words or deeds of Amoz himself, never calls him a prophet, and names none of his relatives other than his son. He is a different man from the prophet Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa (Amos 1:1).

Name meaning

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Name origin

Hebrew

First mention

2 Kings 19:2

Appearances in the Bible

13 mentions

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