Amos 7
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Amos 7
Locusts, Fire, and a Plumb Line
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vv 4, 7
; Joel 1.4; Am 4.9; 8.1; Nah 3.15This is what the Lord God showed me: he was forming locusts at the time the latter growth began to sprout (it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings). 2#Ex 10.14, 15; Isa 37.4; Jer 42.2; Ezek 9.8; 11.13When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said,
“O Lord God, forgive, I beg you!
How can Jacob stand?
He is so small!”
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Deut 32.36; Jer 26.19; Jon 3.10 The Lord relented concerning this;
“It shall not be,” said the Lord.
4This is what the Lord God showed me: the Lord God was calling for judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land. 5#v 2Then I said,
“O Lord God, cease, I beg you!
How can Jacob stand?
He is so small!”
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v 3
The Lord relented concerning this;
“This also shall not be,” said the Lord God.
7This is what he showed me: the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. 8#Isa 28.17; 34.11; Lam 2.8; Am 8.2; Mic 7.18And the Lord said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said,
“See, I am setting a plumb line
in the midst of my people Israel;
I will spare them no longer;
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2 Kings 15.10; Isa 63.18; Hos 10.8; Mic 1.5 the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate,
and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste,
and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”
Amaziah Complains to the King
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1 Kings 12.32; 2 Kings 14.23; Jer 26.8–11 Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent to King Jeroboam of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the very center of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words. 11#vv 9, 17For thus Amos has said,
‘Jeroboam shall die by the sword,
and Israel must go into exile
away from his land.’ ”
12And Amaziah said to Amos, “O seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah, earn your bread there, and prophesy there, 13#1 Kings 12.32; 13.1; Am 2.12but never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom.”
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1 Kings 20.35; 2 Kings 2.5; 4.38; 2 Chr 19.2; Am 1.1 Then Amos answered Amaziah, “I am#7.14 Or was no prophet nor a prophet’s son, but I am#7.14 Or was a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore trees, 15#2 Sam 7.8; Jer 7.1; Ezek 2.3, 4; Am 3.8and the Lord took me from following the flock, and the Lord said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’
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Ezek 21.2; Am 2.12; Mic 2.6 “Now therefore hear the word of the Lord.
You say, ‘Do not prophesy against Israel,
and do not preach against the house of Isaac.’
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Jer 14.16; 29.21; Ezek 4.13; Hos 4.13, 14; 9.3 Therefore thus says the Lord:
Your wife shall become a prostitute in the city,
and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword,
and your land shall be parceled out by line;
you yourself shall die in an unclean land,
and Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.”
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