Amos 2:11

Good News Translation

I chose some of your sons to be prophets and some of your young men to be nazirites. Isn't this true, people of Israel? I, the Lord, have spoken.

Cross References

1 Kings 17:1

A prophet named Elijah, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to King Ahab, “In the name of the Lord, the living God of Israel, whom I serve, I tell you that there will be no dew or rain for the next two or three years until I say so.”

1 Kings 18:4

and when Jezebel was killing the Lord's prophets, Obadiah took a hundred of them, hid them in caves in two groups of fifty, and provided them with food and water.)

1 Kings 19:16

anoint Jehu son of Nimshi as king of Israel, and anoint Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel Meholah to succeed you as prophet.

1 Kings 20:13

Meanwhile, a prophet went to King Ahab and said, “The Lord says, ‘Don't be afraid of that huge army! I will give you victory over it today, and you will know that I am the Lord.’”

1 Kings 20:35

At the Lord's command a member of a group of prophets ordered a fellow prophet to hit him. But he refused,

1 Kings 20:41

The prophet tore the cloth from his face, and at once the king recognized him as one of the prophets.

1 Kings 22:8

Ahab answered, “There is one more, Micaiah son of Imlah. But I hate him because he never prophesies anything good for me; it's always something bad.” “You shouldn't say that!” Jehoshaphat replied.

2 Kings 17:13

The Lord had sent his messengers and prophets to warn Israel and Judah: “Abandon your evil ways and obey my commands, which are contained in the Law I gave to your ancestors and which I handed on to you through my servants the prophets.”

2 Kings 6:1

One day the group of prophets that Elisha was in charge of complained to him, “The place where we live is too small!

2 Chronicles 36:15

The Lord, the God of their ancestors, had continued to send prophets to warn his people, because he wanted to spare them and the Temple.

Jeremiah 11:21

The people of Anathoth wanted me killed, and they told me that they would kill me if I kept on proclaiming the Lord's message.

Jeremiah 2:31

People of Israel, listen to what I am saying. Have I been like a desert to you, like a dark and dangerous land? Why, then, do you say that you will do as you please, that you will never come back to me?

Jeremiah 2:5

The Lord says: “What accusation did your ancestors bring against me? What made them turn away from me? They worshiped worthless idols and became worthless themselves.

Jeremiah 26:11

Then the priests and the prophets said to the leaders and to the people, “This man deserves to be sentenced to death because he has spoken against our city. You heard him with your own ears.”

Jeremiah 7:25

From the day that your ancestors came out of Egypt until this very day I have kept on sending to you my servants, the prophets.

Lamentations 4:7

Our princes were undefiled and pure as snow, vigorous and strong, glowing with health.

Micah 2:6

The people preach at me and say, “Don't preach at us. Don't preach about all that. God is not going to disgrace us.

Acts 4:18

So they called them back in and told them that under no condition were they to speak or to teach in the name of Jesus.

Acts 5:28

“We gave you strict orders not to teach in the name of this man,” he said; “but see what you have done! You have spread your teaching all over Jerusalem, and you want to make us responsible for his death!”

Acts 7:51

“How stubborn you are!” Stephen went on to say. “How heathen your hearts, how deaf you are to God's message! You are just like your ancestors: you too have always resisted the Holy Spirit!

Deuteronomy 18:18

I will send them a prophet like you from among their own people; I will tell him what to say, and he will tell the people everything I command.

1 Samuel 19:20

so he sent some men to arrest him. They saw the group of prophets dancing and shouting, with Samuel as their leader. Then the spirit of God took control of Saul's men, and they also began to dance and shout.

1 Samuel 3:20

So all the people of Israel, from one end of the country to the other, knew that Samuel was indeed a prophet of the Lord.