Amos 7:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said to me, Go, prophesy to my people Israel.

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  • Ezek 2:3-4 : 3 And he said to me, Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even to this very day. 4 For they are impudent children and hardhearted. I do send you to them; and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD.
  • 2 Sam 7:8 : 8 Now therefore, so shall you say to my servant David, Thus says the LORD of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:
  • Jer 1:7 : 7 But the LORD said to me, Do not say, I am a child: for you shall go to all to whom I shall send you, and whatever I command you, you shall speak.
  • Ps 78:70-72 : 70 He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds: 71 From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. 72 So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.
  • Matt 4:18-19 : 18 And Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. 19 And he said to them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
  • Matt 9:9 : 9 And as Jesus passed from there, he saw a man named Matthew, sitting at the tax office: and he said to him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him.
  • Luke 24:46-48 : 46 And said to them, Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day: 47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 48 And you are witnesses of these things.
  • Acts 1:8 : 8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
  • Acts 4:20 : 20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
  • Acts 5:20 : 20 Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.
  • Acts 5:29-32 : 29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men. 30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed by hanging on a tree. 31 Him God has exalted with His right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins. 32 And we are His witnesses of these things, and so is also the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey Him.

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  • Amos 7:7-14
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    7Thus he showed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made with a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.

    8And the LORD said to me, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A plumbline. Then the Lord said, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not pass by them anymore:

    9And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.

    10Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.

    11For thus Amos says, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.

    12Also Amaziah said to Amos, O seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:

    13But do not prophesy again anymore at Bethel: for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is the royal house.

    14Then Amos answered, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was a herdsman, and a gatherer of sycamore fruit:

  • 16Now therefore hear the word of the LORD: You say, Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not preach against the house of Isaac.

  • 7Now therefore thus shall you say to my servant David, Thus says the LORD of hosts, I took you from the sheepfold, even from following the sheep, that you should be ruler over my people Israel:

  • 8Now therefore, so shall you say to my servant David, Thus says the LORD of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:

  • 1And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • Amos 1:1-2
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    1The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

    2And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter His voice from Jerusalem, and the pastures of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.

  • 15The LORD said to me, Take for yourself the implements of a foolish shepherd.

  • Ezek 34:7-9
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    7Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;

    8As I live, says the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became food for every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, nor did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and did not feed my flock;

    9Therefore, O you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;

  • 1Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • 7Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus says the LORD God of Israel, Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you prince over my people Israel,

  • 7But the LORD said to me, Do not say, I am a child: for you shall go to all to whom I shall send you, and whatever I command you, you shall speak.

  • 1And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • 4Thus says the LORD my God: Feed the flock of the slaughter.

  • 1Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • 1And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • 1And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • 4Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • 1And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • Amos 8:1-2
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    1This is what the Lord GOD showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.

    2And He said, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then the LORD said to me, The end has come upon my people Israel; I will not pass by them anymore.

  • 7So I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. I took to myself two staffs: one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bonds; and I fed the flock.

  • 8Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • 17that the LORD spoke unto me, saying,

  • 15The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,

  • 4And he said to me, Son of man, go, get yourself to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them.

  • 1And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • 17And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • 1The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,

  • 10Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, and declare it in the distant isles, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.

  • 16Then he said, I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master; let each return to his house in peace.

  • 15Also the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • 31And you my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, says the Lord GOD.

  • 12The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,

  • 11For the LORD spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,

  • 1The word of the LORD also came to me, saying,

  • 2And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • 9And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • 5But he shall say, I am not a prophet, I am a farmer; for someone taught me to keep cattle from my youth.

  • 5The LORD spoke also to me again, saying,

  • 15Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent a prophet to him, who said, Why have you sought after the gods of the people, which could not deliver their own people out of your hand?