Amos 2:11

New American Bible - revised edition

I who raised up prophets among your children, and nazirites among your young men. Is this not so, Israelites?— oracle of the Lord.

Cross References

1 Kings 17:1

Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab: “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, during these years there shall be no dew or rain except at my word.”

1 Kings 18:4

When Jezebel was slaughtering the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets, hid them away by fifties in caves, and supplied them with food and water.

1 Kings 19:16

You shall also anoint Jehu, son of Nimshi, as king of Israel, and Elisha, son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah, as prophet to succeed you.

1 Kings 20:13

Then a prophet came up to Ahab, king of Israel, and said: “The Lord says, Do you see all this vast army? Today I am giving it into your power, that you may know that I am the Lord.”

1 Kings 20:35

Acting on the word of the Lord, one of the guild prophets said to his companion, “Strike me.” But he refused to strike him.

1 Kings 20:41

He quickly removed the bandage from his eyes, and the king of Israel recognized him as one of the prophets.

1 Kings 22:8

The king of Israel answered, “There is one other man through whom we might consult the Lord; but I hate him because he prophesies not good but evil about me. He is Micaiah, son of Imlah.” Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say that.”

2 Kings 17:13

The Lord warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and seer: Give up your evil ways and keep my commandments and statutes, in accordance with the entire law which I enjoined on your ancestors and which I sent you by my servants the prophets.

2 Kings 6:1

The guild prophets once said to Elisha: “This place where we live with you is too cramped for us.

2 Chronicles 36:15

Early and often the Lord, the God of their ancestors, sent his messengers to them, for he had compassion on his people and his dwelling place.

Jeremiah 11:21

Therefore, thus says the Lord concerning the men of Anathoth who seek your life and say, “Do not prophesy in the name of the Lord; otherwise you shall die by our hand.”

Jeremiah 2:31

You people of this generation, consider the word of the Lord: Have I become a wilderness to Israel, a land of gloom? Why then do my people say, “We have moved on, we will not come to you any more”?

Jeremiah 2:5

thus says the Lord: What fault did your ancestors find in me that they withdrew from me, Went after emptiness, and became empty themselves?

Jeremiah 26:11

The priests and prophets said to the princes and to all the people, “Sentence this man to death! He has prophesied against this city! You heard it with your own ears.”

Jeremiah 7:25

From the day that your ancestors left the land of Egypt even to this day, I kept on sending all my servants the prophets to you.

Lamentations 4:7

Her princes were brighter than snow, whiter than milk, Their bodies more ruddy than coral, their beauty like the sapphire.

Micah 2:6

“Do not preach,” they preach, “no one should preach of these things! Shame will not overtake us.”

Acts 4:18

So they called them back and ordered them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.

Acts 5:28

“We gave you strict orders [did we not?] to stop teaching in that name. Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and want to bring this man’s blood upon us.”

Acts 7:51

“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always oppose the holy Spirit; you are just like your ancestors.

Deuteronomy 18:18

I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their kindred, and will put my words into the mouth of the prophet; the prophet shall tell them all that I command.

1 Samuel 19:20

he sent officers to arrest David. But when they saw the band of prophets presided over by Samuel in a prophetic state, the spirit of God came upon them and they too fell into the prophetic ecstasy.

1 Samuel 3:20

Thus all Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba came to know that Samuel was a trustworthy prophet of the Lord.