View source for Amoz

== Rabbinical tradition ==
There is a [[Talmud]]ic tradition that when the name of a prophet's father is given, the father was also a prophet, so that Amoz would have been a prophet like his son. Though it is mentioned frequently as the [[patronym]]ic title of Isaiah, the name Amoz appears nowhere else in the [[Bible]]. The rabbis of the Talmud declared, based upon a rabbinic tradition, that Amoz was the brother of [[Amaziah of Judah|Amaziah]] ({{lang|he|אמציה}}), the king of [[Kingdom of Judah|Judah]] at that time (and, as a result, that Isaiah himself was a member of the royal family). According to some traditions, Amoz is the "[[man of God]]" in [[Books of Chronicles|2 Chronicles]] 25:7–9 ([[Seder Olam Rabbah]] 20), who cautioned Amaziah to release the [[Kingdom of Israel (Samaria)|Israelite]] [[mercenary|mercenaries]] that he had hired.