Amos Accused

¹⁰Then Amaziah jthe priest of Bethel sent to kJeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has lconspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words. ¹¹For thus Amos has said,

“‘Jeroboam shall die by the sword,

and mIsrael must go into exile

away from his land.’”

¹²And Amaziah said to Amos, n“O seer, go, flee away oto the land of Judah, and peat bread there, and prophesy there, ¹³but qnever again prophesy at Bethel, for rit is the king's sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom.”

¹⁴Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, s“I was1 no prophet, nor a prophet's son, but tI was a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore figs. ¹⁵uBut the Lord took me from following the flock, and the Lord said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’ ¹⁶vNow therefore hear the word of the Lord.

“You say, n‘Do not prophesy against Israel,

and wdo not preach against the house of xIsaac.’

¹⁷yTherefore thus says the Lord:

“‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city,

and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword,

and your land zshall be divided up with a measuring line;

you yourself shall die in an unclean land,

and mIsrael shall surely go into exile away from its land.’”

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