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Amos 7:15 KJV
Amos · chapter 7 · verse 15
And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.Amos 7:15 · King James Version
Amos 7:15 in context
13But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it is the king’s chapel, and it is the king’s court.
14Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:
15And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.
16Now therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac.
17Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- followedʼacharproperly, the hind partH310 →
- prophesynâbâʼto prophesyH5012 →
- peopleʻama peopleH5971 →
- flocktsôʼna collective name for a flockH6629 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
- tooklâqachto takeH3947 →
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One would have expected, 1. That what we met with in the former part of the chapter would awaken the people to repentance, when they saw that they were reprieved in order that they might have space to repent and that they could not obtain a pardon unless the did repent. 2.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 10-17