Amos:7:10-17
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geneva@Amos:7:11 @ For thus Amos saith, Ieroboam shal die by the sworde, and Israel shalbe led away captiue out of their owne land.
geneva@Amos:7:12 @ Also (note:)When this instrument of Satan was not able to accomplish his purpose by the king, he tried by another practice, that was, to scare the Prophet, that he might depart, and not reprove their idolatry there openly, and so hinder his profit.(:note) Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
geneva@Amos:7:13 @ But prophecie no more at Beth-el: for it is the Kings chappel, and it is the Kings court.
geneva@Amos:7:14 @ Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I [was] no (note:)Thus he shows by his extraordinary calling, that God had given him a charge, which he must necessarily execute.(:note) prophet, neither [was] I a prophet's son; but I [was] an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:
geneva@Amos:7:15 @ And the Lord tooke me as I followed the flocke, and the Lord said vnto me, Go, prophecie vnto my people Israel.
geneva@Amos:7:16 @ Now therefore heare thou the word of the Lord. Thou sayest, Prophecie not against Israel, & speake nothing against the house of Izhak.
geneva@Amos:7:17 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD; (note:)In this way God used to approve the authority of his Prophets, by his plagues and judgments against those who were malicious enemies as in (Jer_28:12-17; Jer_29:21-26), as this day he does against those that persecute the ministers of his Gospel.(:note) 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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