Amos of Tekoa delivered a speech at the Temple of the Golden Calf in the city of Bethel in the northern kingdom of Israel just two years before the earthquake (), in the middle of eighth century BC when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam II was king of Israel. Amos spoke of the land being shaken (), houses being smashed (), altars being cracked (), and even the Temple at Bethel being struck and collapsing (). The Amos' Earthquake impacted Hebrew literature immensely. After the gigantic earthquake, no Hebrew prophet could predict a divine visitation in judgment without alluding to an earthquake. Just a few years after the earthquake, Isaiah wrote about the Day of the Lord when everything lofty and exalted will be abased at the time when the Lord ariseth to shake terribly the earth (). Then, Isaiah saw the Lord in a temple shaken by an earthquake (). Joel repeats the motto of Amos: The Lord also will roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem, and adds the seismic theophany imagery the heavens and the earth shall shake (; compare ). After describing a future earthquake and panic during the Day of the Lord at Messiah's coming to the Mount of Olives, Zechariah says, Yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah (Zechariah 14:5). The panic caused by Amos' Earthquake must have been the topic of legend in Jerusalem, because Zechariah asked his readers to recall that terrifying event 230 years later.