Amos 2:10-12

Expanded Bible

¹⁰ It was I who brought you from the land of Egypt
    and led you for forty years through the ·desert [wilderness]
    ·so I could give you [^Lto possess] the land of the Amorites.
¹¹ I made some of your children to be prophets
    and some of your young people to be Nazirites [Num. 6:2].
·People [^LSons/^TChildren] of Israel, isn’t this true?” says the Lord.
¹² “But you made the Nazirites drink wine [^Cviolating their vows; Num. 6:3]
    and ·told [commanded] the prophets not to prophesy.