KJV King James Version
For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.
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Amos 7:11
For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
for this is what Amos has said: ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’”
WEB World English Bible
For Amos says, ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’”
ASV American Standard Version
For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
for thus said Amos: By sword die doth Jeroboam, And Israel certainly removeth from off its land.’
Surrounding context — Amos 7
8 And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:
9 And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.
10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.
11 For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.
12 Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
13 But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it [is] the king’s chapel, and it [is] the king’s court.
14 Then 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:
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כִּי־H3588 · kiforכֹה֙H3541 · kohthusאָמַ֣רH559 · a.marto sayעָמ֔וֹסH5986 · a.mosAmosבַּחֶ֖רֶבH2719 · che.revswordיָמ֣וּתH4191 · mutto dieיָרָבְעָ֑םH3379 · ya.rov.amJeroboamוְיִ֨שְׂרָאֵ֔לH3478 · yis.ra.elIsraelגָּלֹ֥הH1540 · ga.lahHeglamיִגְלֶ֖הH1540 · ga.lahHeglamמֵעַ֥לH5921 · aluponאַדְמָתֽוֹ׃ סH127 · a.da.mahland: soil
Cross-references
Amos 6:7-8Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.2 Kings 17:6In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor [by] the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.Psalm 56:5Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts [are] against me for evil.Amos 7:9And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.Acts 6:14For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us.Matthew 26:61And said, This [fellow] said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.Jeremiah 28:10-11Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah’s neck, and brake it.Jeremiah 26:9Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
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