"[Amos] He preached during the reign of Jeroboam II (783-743), a glorious era in human terms, when the northern kingdom expanded and grew rich, but when the luxury of the powerful was an insult to the misery of the oppressed and the splendour of worship masked the absence of true religion."
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Jeroboam II
Jeroboam II, also referred to as Jeroboam son of Jehoash, was the successor of Jehoash (alternatively spelled Joash) and the thirteenth king of the ancient Kingdom of Israel, over which he ruled for forty-one years in the eighth century BC. His reign was contemporary with those of Amaziah (2 Kings 14:23) and Uzziah (2 Kings 15:1), kings of Judah. Jeroboam is the fourth king of the House of Jehu and the longest-reigning king of the kingdom of Israel in Samaria. He is described as a military comma
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