The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
Before the earthquake. — Probably the same as that referred to Zechariah 14:5, if הרעש haraash do not mean some popular tumult.