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Amos 7:12-17
New International Version
Amos 7:12-17
New International Version
12 Then Amaziah said to Amos, “Get out, you seer!(A) Go back to the land of Judah. Earn your bread there and do your prophesying there.(B) 13 Don’t prophesy anymore at Bethel,(C) because this is the king’s sanctuary and the temple(D) of the kingdom.(E)”
14 Amos answered Amaziah, “I was neither a prophet(F) nor the son of a prophet, but I was a shepherd, and I also took care of sycamore-fig trees.(G) 15 But the Lord took me from tending the flock(H) and said to me, ‘Go,(I) prophesy(J) to my people Israel.’(K) 16 Now then, hear(L) the word of the Lord. You say,
“‘Do not prophesy against(M) Israel,
and stop preaching against the descendants of Isaac.’
17 “Therefore this is what the Lord says:
Footnotes
- Amos 7:17 Hebrew an unclean
Amos 7:12-17
King James Version
Amos 7:12-17
King James Version
12 Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
13 But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it is the king's chapel, and it is the king's court.
14 Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:
15 And the Lord took me as I followed the flock, and the Lord said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.
16 Now therefore hear thou the word of the Lord: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac.
17 Therefore thus saith the Lord; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.
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