Amos 7:13 {12}
Good News Translation
Don't prophesy here at Bethel any more. This is the king's place of worship, the national temple."

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

Contemporary English Version
Don't do any more preaching at Bethel. The king worships here at our national temple."

New American Bible
But never again prophesy in Bethel; for it is the king’s sanctuary and a royal temple.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Amasias said to Amos: Thou seer, go, flee away into the land of Juda: and eat bread there, and prophesy there.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Amasias said to Amos: Thou seer, go, flee away into the land of Juda: and eat bread there, and prophesy there.

prophesy.

Amos 2:12 And you will present wine to the Nazarites: and command the prophets, saying: Prophesy not.

Acts 4:17,18 But that it may be no farther spread among the people, let us threaten them that they speak no more in this name to any man. . . .

Acts 5:28,40 Saying: Commanding, we commanded you that you should not teach in this name. And behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine: and you have a mind to bring the blood of this man upon us. . . .

for.

1 Kings 12:29,32 And he set the one in Bethel, and the other in Dan: . . .

1 Kings 13:1 And behold there came a man of God out of Juda, by the word of the Lord, to Bethel, when Jeroboam was standing upon the altar, and burning incense.

chapel.

Context
Amaziah Accuses Amos
12For thus saith Amos: Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall be carried away captive out of their own land. 13And Amasias said to Amos: Thou seer, go, flee away into the land of Juda: and eat bread there, and prophesy there.14But prophesy not again any more in Bethel: because it is the king's sanctuary, and it is the house of the kingdom.…
Cross References
Acts 4:18
And calling them, they charged them not to speak at all, nor teach in the name of Jesus.

1 Kings 12:29
And he set the one in Bethel, and the other in Dan:

1 Kings 12:32
And he appointed a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, after the manner of the feast that was celebrated in Juda. And going up to the altar, he did in like manner in Bethel, to sacrifice to the calves, which he had made: and he placed in Bethel priests of the high places, which he had made.

Isaiah 30:10
Who say to the seers: See not: and to them that behold: Behold not for us those things that are right: speak unto us pleasant things, see errors for us.

Amos 2:12
And you will present wine to the Nazarites: and command the prophets, saying: Prophesy not.

Amos 3:14
That in the day when I shall begin to visit the transgressions of Israel, I will visit upon him, and upon the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altars shall be cut off, and shall fall to the ground.

Amos 5:5
But seek not Bethel, and go not into Galgal, neither shall you pass over to Bersabee: for Galgal shall go into captivity, and Bethel shall be unprofitable.

Amos 7:9
And the Lord said to me: What seest thou, Amos? And I said: A mason's trowel. And the Lord said: Behold, I will lay down the trowel in the midst of my people Israel. I will plaster them over no more.

Amos 7:16
And the Lord took me when I followed the flock, and the Lord said to me: Go, prophesy to my people Israel.

Amos 7:12
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