Amos 2:11

Judgment On Israel

¹⁰ Also it was I who brought you up out of the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite. ¹¹ “Then I raised up some of your sons to be prophets
And some of your young men to be Nazirites.
Is this not so, O sons of Israel?” declares the Lord.
¹² "But you made the Nazirites drink wine, and commanded the prophets, saying, 'You shall not prophesy.'

Children of Israel

My People

People of Israel

Says the Lord

Sons of Israel

Declares The Lord

Amos

Israel

Israelites

Jehovah

Numbers 6:2-3

"Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When either a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite,to separate himself to the LORD,

Deuteronomy 18:18

I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.

Judges 13:4-7

Therefore be careful and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean,

1 Samuel 3:20

And all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established as a prophet of the LORD.

1 Samuel 19:20

Then Saul sent messengers to take David, and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.

1 Kings 17:1

Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word."

1 Kings 18:4

and when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water.)

1 Kings 19:16

And Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint to be king over Israel, and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah you shall anoint to be prophet in your place.

1 Kings 20:13

And behold, a prophet came near to Ahab king of Israel and said, "Thus says the LORD, Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will give it into your hand this day, and you shall know that I am the LORD."

1 Kings 20:35

And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow at the command of the LORD, "Strike me, please." But the man refused to strike him.

1 Kings 20:41

Then he hurried to take the bandage away from his eyes, and the king of Israel recognized him as one of the prophets.

1 Kings 22:8

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD, Micaiah the son of Imlah, but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but evil." And Jehoshaphat said, "Let not the king say so."

2 Kings 2:2-5

And Elijah said to Elisha, "Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me as far as Bethel." But Elisha said, "As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you." So they went down to Bethel.

2 Kings 6:1

Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, "See, the place where we dwell under your charge is too small for us.

2 Kings 17:13

Yet the LORDwarned Israel and Judah by every prophet and every seer, saying, "Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets."

2 Chronicles 36:15

The LORD, the God of their fathers, sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place.

Isaiah 5:3-4

And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.

Isaiah 30:10-11

who say to the seers, "Do not see," and to the prophets, "Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us smooth things, prophesy illusions,

Jeremiah 2:5

Thus says the LORD: "What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?

Jeremiah 2:31

And you, O generation, behold the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Why then do my people say, 'We are free, we will come no more to you'?

Jeremiah 7:25

From the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have persistently sent all my servants the prophets to them, day after day.

Jeremiah 11:21

Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, and say, "Do not prophesy in the name of the LORD, or you will die by our hand"--

Jeremiah 26:11

Then the priests and the prophets said to the officials and to all the people, "This man deserves the sentence of death, because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears."

Lamentations 4:7

Her princes were purer than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than coral, the beauty of their form was like sapphire.

Amos 7:12-13

And Amaziah said to Amos, "O seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there,

Micah 2:6

"Do not preach"--thus they preach-- "one should not preach of such things; disgrace will not overtake us."

Micah 6:3-4

"O my people, what have I done to you? How have I wearied you? Answer me!

Matthew 21:34-38

When the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to get his fruit.

Luke 1:3-17

it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,

Acts 4:18

So they called them and charged them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.

Acts 5:28

saying, "We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring this man's blood upon us."

Acts 7:51

"You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.

1 Thessalonians 2:15-16

who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind

2 Peter 1:20-21

knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation.