Amos 2:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² But you made the nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets, saying, “You shall not prophesy.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² But you gave the dedicated ones [the Nazirites] wine to drink and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² But ye gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.

Common English Bible

¹² But you made the nazirites drink wine, and commanded the prophets, saying, “You won’t prophesy.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Yet you would offer wine to the Nazirites, and you would command the prophets, saying: "Do not prophesy."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² And you will present wine to the Nazarites: and command the prophets, saying: Prophesy not.

Amos 2:12 Cross References

Isaiah 30:10

who say to the seers, “Do not see,” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us smooth things; prophesy illusions;

Jeremiah 11:21

Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the people of Anathoth who seek your life and say, “You shall not prophesy in the name of the Lord, or you will die by our hand”—

Jeremiah 35:5

Then I set before the Rechabites pitchers full of wine and cups, and I said to them, “Have some wine.”

Amos 7:13

but never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom.”

Amos 7:16

“Now therefore hear the word of the Lord. You say, ‘Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not preach against the house of Isaac.’

Micah 2:6

“Do not preach”—thus they preach— “one should not preach of such things; disgrace will not overtake us.”

Numbers 6:2

“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When either men or women make a special vow, the vow of a nazirite, to separate themselves to the Lord,

Numbers 6:3

they shall separate themselves from wine and strong drink; they shall drink no wine vinegar or other vinegar and shall not drink any grape juice or eat grapes, fresh or dried.