[49] An older prophet of this name, distinct from the son of Jehoiadah, and perhaps also distinct from the son of Berechiah (Isa. viii. 2), but identical with this Zachariah, if the words of the Chronicles may be explained to mean: "So long as he (Uzziah) listened to Zachariah." [50] 2 Kings xv. 3; 2 Chron. xxvi 6-21; 1 Kings ix. 25. [51] Amos i. 2; iv. 9. [52] The date of Amos is fixed not only by the superscription, but by the mention of the house of Jeroboam in his prophecies. Moreover, the desolation caused by the Damascenes in Israel, the campaigns of the Philistines against Judah (II. 252), appear to be in recent remembrance. If the "fallen tabernacle of David, the breaches in its wall," are also mentioned (ix. 11, 12), it is clear that Uzziah, who came to the throne in the year 792 B.C. at an age of 16 years, had not completely restored Judah, that he had not recovered Elath. On the other hand, it is clear that Gath was already taken. Hence Amos cannot have come forward before the tenth or twelfth year of Uzziah, _i.e._ before 782 or 780, according to our computation (p. 18, _note_). The canon of the Assyrians agrees with this in putting the campaign of Bin-nirar to the coast in the year 803 B.C.; and afterwards records the last campaign of the Assyrians to Damascus before the time of Tiglath Pilesar II. in the year 773 B.C.; after which time only contests against Hadrach (772-765) and against Arpad are mentioned (p. 2), which Tiglath Pilesar then resumes in the year 743 B.C. In Amos the Assyrians are still in the back-ground. [53] Amos ii. 9-12. [54] Amos viii. 4; v. 12. [55] Amos ii. 6, 7. [56] Amos viii. 6. [57] Amos vi. 12. [58] Amos v. 11. [59] Amos vi. 1-7. [60] Amos v. 11. [61] Amos iv. 4, 5. [62] Amos v. 21-23. [63] Amos v. 14, 15, 24. [64] Amos iii. 10, 11; vi. 2. [65] Amos vi. 14. [66] Amos iii. 14, 15. [67] Amos ii. 14-16. [68] Amos ix. 10. [69] 2 Kings xv. 8-15. [70] Zech. x. 2, 3. [71] King Zachariah, and then Shallum: the third is the opponent of Menahem who sought to maintain himself in Tipsach (Taanach?). [72] Zech. xi. 6, 8, 9, 16, 17. [73] Zech. xi. 1-3. [74] Zech. ix. 1-6. [75] Zech. ix. 10, 16. [76] Hosea i. 4, 5. [77] Hosea viii. 4; iv. 16; vii. 7; xiii. 11. [78] Hosea xiii. 4. [79] Hosea v. 1. [80] Hosea xiii. 5. [81] Hosea xi. 1-4. [82] Hosea x. 1. [83] Hosea xiii. 2. [84] Hosea iv. 13. [85] Hosea ii. 5-8. [86] Hosea x. 13. [87] Hosea iv. 2. [88] Hosea viii. 13. [89] Hosea vi. 6. [90] Hosea ii. 9-13; ix. 1. [91] Hosea viii. 14. [92] Hosea xii. 2. [93] Hosea ix. 1-6; v. 13; vii. 11; viii. 9; x. 6; xi. 5; xiii. 15; xiv. 1. [94] Hosea x. 8. [95] Hosea xi. 9. [96] Hosea v. 15. [97] Hosea ii. 14-17. [98] Hosea xiv. 2-4. [99] Hosea xiv. 5-9; ii. 19. [100] Lists of rulers, 742-740, "during three years he conquered Arpad." [101] Frag. 6, in G. Smith, p. 274. [102] Eberhard Schrader, "Jahrb. protest. Theolog." 1876, s. 374.