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The Lord said to me, “What do you see, Amos?”

I said, “A plumb line.”

Then the Lord said:

    Look, I am about to set up a plumb line next to my people Israel.
    I will no longer overlook their sin.
The high places of Isaac will be desolate,
    and the sanctuaries of Israel will be ruined.
    I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.

Amos and Amaziah

10 Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent a message to Jeroboam king of Israel:[a]

Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to endure all of his words.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 7:10 Jeroboam II ruled from about 793 to 753 bc. This encounter was probably near the end of his reign.