Amos 7:12
Amaziah said to Amos, “Go away prophet! Run away to the land of Judah. Go and prophesy there to earn your bread.
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13But don't ever prophesy again at Bethel, for this is where the king worships, the national Temple.”
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:36Every one of your descendants who is left will come and bow down to him, asking for money and food, saying, ‘Please give me work as a priest so that I can have food to eat.’”
2 Chronicles 16:10Asa was angry with the seer. He was so angry with him over this that he put him in prison. At this same time Asa started to mistreat some of the people.
Isaiah 56:11They're greedy dogs that are never satisfied. They're sheepdogs who don't know their job. All of them go their own way, each of them looking out for themselves.
Amos 2:12But you made the Nazirites sin by drinking wine, and you told the prophets, “Don't tell us what God says.”
Matthew 8:34The whole town came out to meet Jesus. When they found him, they begged him to leave their district.
Luke 13:31At that moment some Pharisees came to Jesus and told him, “You should leave here. Herod wants to kill you!”
Matthew Henry on Amos 7:11-17
Amaziah's Charge against Amos; Amaziah's Doom. ( b. c. 785.) 10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words. 11 For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land. 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… Read the whole commentary →