Amos 7:14

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

I answered: I'm not a prophet! And I wasn't trained to be a prophet. I am a shepherd, and I take care of fig trees.

Cross References

1 Kings 19:19

Elijah left and found Elisha ploughing a field with a pair of oxen. There were eleven other men in front of him, and each one was also ploughing with a pair of oxen. Elijah went over and put his own coat on Elisha.

1 Kings 20:35

About this time the LORD commanded a prophet to say to a friend, “Hit me!” But the friend refused,

2 Kings 2:15

When the prophets from Jericho saw what happened, they said to each other, “Elisha now has Elijah's power.” They walked over to him, bowed down,

2 Kings 2:3

A group of prophets who lived there asked Elisha, “Do you know that today the LORD is going to take away your master?” “Yes, I do,” Elisha answered. “But don't remind me of it.”

2 Kings 2:5

A group of prophets who lived there asked Elisha, “Do you know that today the LORD is going to take away your master?” “Yes, I do,” Elisha answered. “But don't remind me of it.”

2 Kings 2:7

Fifty prophets followed Elijah and Elisha from Jericho, then stood at a distance and watched as the two men walked towards the river.

2 Kings 4:38

Later, Elisha went back to Gilgal, where there was almost nothing to eat, because the crops had failed. One day while the prophets who lived there were meeting with Elisha, he said to his servant, “Prepare a big pot of stew for these prophets.”

2 Kings 6:1

One day the prophets said to Elisha, “The place where we meet with you is too small.

2 Chronicles 16:7

Soon after that happened, Hanani the prophet went to Asa and said: You depended on the king of Syria instead of depending on the LORD your God. And so, you will never defeat the Syrian army.

2 Chronicles 19:2

But the prophet Jehu son of Hanani met him and said: By helping that wicked Ahab, you have made friends with someone who hates the LORD. Now the LORD God is angry with you!

2 Chronicles 20:34

Everything else Jehoshaphat did while he was king is written in the records of Jehu son of Hanani that are included in The History of the Kings of Israel.

Job 30:4

They gather tasteless shrubs for food and firewood,

Amos 1:1

I am Amos. And I raised sheep near the town of Tekoa when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel. Two years before the earthquake, the LORD gave me several messages about Israel,

Amos 3:8

Everyone is terrified when a lion roars— and ordinary people become prophets when the LORD God speaks.

Zechariah 13:5

Instead, they will say, “I'm no prophet. I've been a farmer all my life.”

1 Corinthians 1:27

But God chose the foolish things of this world to put the wise to shame. He chose the weak things of this world to put the powerful to shame.

1 Samuel 10:11

Some people who had known Saul for a long time saw that he was speaking and behaving like a prophet. They said to each other, “What's happened? How can Saul be a prophet?”