Amos 7:16-17
Amplified Bible
16 Now therefore, listen to the word of the Lord: You say, ‘You shall not prophesy against Israel nor shall you speak against the house of Isaac.’ 17 Therefore, thus says the Lord, ‘Your wife shall become a prostitute in the city [when the [a]Assyrians capture Samaria] and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by a measuring line; you yourself shall die in an unclean and defiled [pagan] land, and Israel shall certainly go from its land into exile.’”
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- Amos 7:17 Assyria invaded Israel during the reign of Hoshea (2 Kin 17:5, 6).
Amos 7:16-17
New International Version
16 Now then, hear(A) the word of the Lord. You say,
“‘Do not prophesy against(B) Israel,
and stop preaching against the descendants of Isaac.’
17 “Therefore this is what the Lord says:
Footnotes
- Amos 7:17 Hebrew an unclean
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