Amos 2:12
But ye gaue the Nazarites wine to drinke, and commanded the Prophetes, saying, Prophecie not.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
In Context
13Behold, I am pressed vnder you as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaues.
Cross References
Numbers 6:3He shall abstaine from wine and strong drinke, and shall drinke no sowre wine nor sowre drinke, nor shall drinke any licour of grapes, neither shall eate fresh grapes nor dryed.
Jeremiah 11:21The Lord therefore speaketh thus of the men of Anathoth, (that seeke thy life, and say, Prophecie not in the Name of the Lord, that thou die not by our hands)
Amos 7:16Now therefore heare thou the word of the Lord. Thou sayest, Prophecie not against Israel, and speake nothing against the house of Izhak.
Matthew Henry on Amos 2:10-16
God's Remonstrance with Israel. ( b. c. 790.) 9 Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath. 10 Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite. 11 And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the Lord . 12 But… Read the whole commentary →