“The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen 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.”
Which as Josephus writeth, was when Uzziah would have usurped the Priest’s office, and therefore was smitten with the leprosy. Which was a town five miles from Jerusalem in Judea, but he prophesied in Israel. In his days the kingdom of Israel did most flourish.