Amos 7:10-17 NKJV


Amos 7:10-17 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying,
Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.

"For thus Amos has said: 'Jeroboam shall die by the sword, And Israel shall surely be led away captive From their own land.'"

Then Amaziah said to Amos; "Go, you seer! Flee to the land of Judah. There eat bread, And there prophesy.

But never again prophesy at Bethel, For it is the king's sanctuary, and it is the royal residence."

Then Amos answered, and said to Amaziah; "I was no prophet, Nor was I a son of a prophet, But I was a sheepbreeder And a tender of sycamore fruit.

Then  the LORD took me as I followed the flock, And the LORD said to me, 'Go, prophesy to My people Israel.'

Now therefore, hear the word of the LORD; You say, 'Do not prophesy against Israel, And do not spout against the house of Isaac.'

"Therefore thus says the LORD; 'Your wife shall be a harlot in the city; Your sons and daughters shall fall by the sword; Your land shall be divided by survey line; You shall die in a defiled land; And Israel shall surely be led away captive From his own land.'"

1 Kings 12:25-32 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the mountains of Ephraim, and dwelt there. Also he went out from there and built Penuel.

And Jeroboam said in his heart, "Now the kingdom may return to the house of David;

"If these people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn back to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah, and they will kill me and go back to Rehoboam king of Judah."

Therefore the king asked advice, made two calves of gold, and said to the people, "It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt!"

And he set up one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.

Now this thing became a sin, for the people went to worship before the one as far as Dan.

He made shrines on the high places, and made priests from every class of people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and offered sacrifices on the altar. So he did at Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made. And at Bethel he installed the priests of the high places which he had made.

Amos 5:21-27 "I hate, I despise your feast days, And I do not savor your sacred assemblies.

Though you offer Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them, Nor will I regard your fattened peace offerings.

Take away from Me the noise of your songs, For I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments.

But let justice run down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

"Did you offer Me sacrifices and offerings In the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

You also carried Sikkuth your king And Chiun, your idols, The star of your gods, Which you made for yourselves.

Therefore I will send you into captivity beyond Damascus." Says the LORD, whose name is the God of hosts.