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Amos 2:11 KJV
Amos · chapter 2 · verse 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.Amos 2:11 · King James Version
Amos 2:11 in context
9Yet 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.
10Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
11And 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.
12But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
13Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- NazaritesnâzîyrseparateH5139 →
- prophetsnâbîyʼa prophet or inspired manH5030 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- saithnᵉʼuman oracleH5002 →
- sonsbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
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Here, I. God puts his people Israel in mind of the great things he has done for them, in putting them into possession of the land of Canaan, the greatest part of which these ten tribes now enjoyed, Amo 2:9, Amo 2:10.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 9-16