1 Thus Lord YHWH has showed me, and behold, He is forming locusts at the beginning of the ascending of the latter growth, and behold, the latter growth [is] after the mowings of the king [[or King Gog]]; 2 and it has come to pass, when it has finished to consume the herb of the land, that I say, “Lord YHWH, please forgive, || How does Jacob arise—for he [is] small?” 3 YHWH has relented of this, “It will not be,” said YHWH. 4 Thus has Lord YHWH showed me, and behold, Lord YHWH is calling to contend by the fire, and it consumes the great deep, indeed, it has consumed the portion, and I say, 5 “Lord YHWH, please cease, || How does Jacob arise—for he [is] small?” 6 YHWH has relented of this, “It also will not be,” said Lord YHWH. 7 Thus has He showed me, and behold, the Lord is standing by a wall [made according to] a plumb-line, and in His hand a plumb-line; 8 and YHWH says to me, “What are you seeing, Amos?” And I say, “A plumb-line”; and the Lord says: “Behold, I am setting a plumb-line in the midst of My people Israel, I no longer pass over to it. 9 And high places of Isaac have been desolated, || And sanctuaries of Israel are dried up, || And I have risen against the house of Jeroboam with a sword.” 10 And Amaziah priest of Beth-El sends to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words, 11 for thus said Amos: Jeroboam dies by sword, || And Israel certainly removes from off its land.” 12 And Amaziah says to Amos, “Seer, go, flee to the land of Judah for yourself, and eat bread there, and there you prophesy; 13 and no longer prophesy [at] Beth-El anymore, for it [is] the king’s sanctuary, and it [is] the royal house.” 14 And Amos answers and says to Amaziah, “I [am] no prophet, nor [am] I a prophet’s son, but I [am] a herdsman, and a cultivator of sycamores, 15 and YHWH takes me from after the flock, and YHWH says to me, Go, prophesy to My people Israel. 16 And now, hear a word of YHWH: You are saying, Do not prophesy against Israel, nor drop [anything] against the house of Isaac, 17 therefore, thus said YHWH: Your wife goes whoring in the city, || And your sons and your daughters fall by sword, || And your land is apportioned by line, || And you die on an unclean land, || And Israel certainly removes from off its land.”
Amos · Literal Standard Version
Amos 7 Literal Standard Version
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Amaziah
The priest of Bethel who sent word to Jeroboam against Amos and told him to flee to Judah.
Cited in the guide: Amos 7:10; Amos 7:12; Amos 7:14
Amos
A sheep breeder from Tekoa whose words concerned Israel in the days of Uzziah and Jeroboam, whom Amaziah the priest told to go flee to Judah.
Cited in the guide: Amos 1:1; Amos 7:8; Amos 7:10
Cross references (17)
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- 1 Joel 1:4; Amos 8:1; Nahum 3:15–17; Isaiah 33:4; Joel 2:25
- 2 Isaiah 37:4; Ezekiel 11:13; Exodus 10:15; Jeremiah 14:20–21; Jeremiah 42:2
- 3 Deuteronomy 32:36; Jonah 3:10; Hosea 11:8; Psalm 106:45; Amos 7:6
- 4 Amos 7:1; Isaiah 66:15–16; Amos 4:11; Amos 7:7; Exodus 9:23–24
- 5 Psalm 85:4; Amos 7:2–3; Joel 2:17; Isaiah 10:25; Jeremiah 30:19
- 6 Jeremiah 26:19; Amos 7:3; Judges 10:16; Jonah 4:2; Psalm 135:14
- 7 2 Kings 21:13; Isaiah 28:17; Revelation 21:15; Zechariah 2:1–2; Revelation 11:1
- 8 Amos 8:2; Lamentations 2:8; Jeremiah 15:6; Ezekiel 7:2–9; Isaiah 28:17
- 9 2 Kings 15:8–10; Genesis 46:1; Amos 5:5; Isaiah 63:18; Amos 8:14
- 10 Jeremiah 38:4; 1 Kings 12:31–32; Jeremiah 26:8–11; Matthew 21:23; Acts 24:5
- 11 Amos 6:7–8; 2 Kings 17:6; Psalm 56:5; Amos 7:9; Acts 6:14
- 12 1 Corinthians 2:14; Matthew 8:34; Isaiah 30:10; 1 Samuel 9:9; Romans 16:18
- 13 1 Kings 12:32; Amos 2:12; 1 Kings 12:29; 1 Kings 13:1; Acts 5:40
- 14 Amos 1:1; Zechariah 13:5; 2 Kings 4:38; 2 Kings 2:5; 1 Corinthians 1:27
- 15 2 Samuel 7:8; Ezekiel 2:3–4; Jeremiah 1:7; Psalm 78:70–72; Matthew 9:9
- 16 Ezekiel 20:46; Ezekiel 21:2; Micah 2:6; Jeremiah 28:15–17; Deuteronomy 32:2
- 17 Hosea 9:3; 2 Kings 17:6; Ezekiel 4:13; Jeremiah 28:16; Hosea 4:13–14
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