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Amos 2:12

American Standard Version

But ye gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.

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Amos 2:12 in other translations

“But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink,
and commanded the prophets, saying, ‘Don’t prophesy!’

Amos 2:12 · World English Bible

Amos 2:12 in context

  1. 10Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
  2. 11And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazirites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith Jehovah.
  3. 12But ye gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
  4. 13Behold, I will press you in your place, as a cart presseth that is full of sheaves.
  5. 14And flight shall perish from the swift; and the strong shall not strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself;