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Amos 2:12 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

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

Amos 2:12

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10 Also 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.

11 I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for Nazirites. Isn’t this true, you children of Israel?” says the LORD.

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

13 Behold, I will crush you in your place, as a cart crushes that is full of grain.

14 Flight will perish from the swift. The strong won’t strengthen his force. The mighty won’t deliver himself.

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Judges 13:7

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"but he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink. Don’t eat any unclean thing, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’”"

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Jeremiah 35:14

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"“The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab that he commanded his sons, not to drink wine, are performed; and to this day they drink none, for they obey their father’s commandment; but I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking, and you have not listened to me."

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Revelation 16:6

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"For they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this.”"

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Jeremiah 13:12

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"“Therefore you shall speak to them this word: ‘The LORD, the God of Israel says, “Every container should be filled with wine.”’ They will tell you, ‘Do we not certainly know that every container should be filled with wine?’"

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Nehemiah 9:26

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"“Nevertheless they were disobedient and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies."

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Amos 7:13

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"but don’t prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a royal house!”"

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From This Chapter

Amos 2:1

"The LORD says: “For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment, because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime;"

Amos 2:2

"but I will send a fire on Moab, and it will devour the palaces of Kerioth; and Moab will die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet;"

Amos 2:3

"and I will cut off the judge from among them, and will kill all its princes with him,” says the LORD."

Amos 2:4

"The LORD says: “For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment, because they have rejected the LORD’s law, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have led them astray, after which their fathers walked;"

Amos 2:5

"but I will send a fire on Judah, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem.”"

Amos 2:6

"The LORD says: “For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment, because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals;"

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