KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Amos 2:12–14
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Amos 2:12
12But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
12But ye gaue the Nazarites wine to drinke, and commaunded the Prophets, saying, *Prophecie not.
- Cha.7.12.
Amos 2:13
13Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
13Behold, ‖I am pressed vnder you, as a cart is pressed that is ful of sheaues.
- Or, I will presse your place as a cart full of sheaues presseth.
Amos 2:14
14Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:
14Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mightie deliuer †himselfe:
- Heb. his soule or life.
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DEFINED WORDS
Amos 2:12
However; introducing a contrast with what precedes.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Bestowed, delivered, granted, or caused, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Persons separated by vows to the Lord under the Nazarite ordinance.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Ordered; directed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Especially, an inspired teacher; He that prophesies.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893
To speak a message given by God; to proclaim, explain, or foretell under divine direction.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
DEFINED WORDS
Amos 2:13
To look upon or see; as an interjection, look or take notice.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Urged by force or weight; constrained; distressed; crowded; embraced; made smooth and glossy by pressure, as cloth.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A cart image referring to its rope, wheel, or heavy load.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Bundles of cut stalks of grain bound together.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
DEFINED WORDS
Amos 2:14
The act of fleeing or escaping.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The current of a stream. In domestic affairs, a reel or turning.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Having strength, power, firmness, endurance, influence, or the ability to resist and prevail.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
strengthen
To make stronger, confirm, encourage, fortify, or increase in power.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Strength, power, compulsion, effect, or an armed body, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Possessing or displaying great strength, power, ability, rank, or effect.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To rescue, set free, hand over, give up, or bring forth, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 12
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Open the full verse study13But prophesy not again any more at Beth-el: for it is the king’s chapel, and it is the king’s court.
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Open the full verse study10Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
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Open the full verse study21Therefore thus saith the Lord of the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the Lord, that thou die not by our hand:
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Open the full verse study6Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.
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Open the full verse study16¶ Now therefore hear thou the word of the Lord: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac.
From verse 13
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Open the full verse study14Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
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Open the full verse study43Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord God: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.
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Open the full verse study9And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
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Open the full verse study24Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.
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Open the full verse study13And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
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Open the full verse study17¶ Ye have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?
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Open the full verse study40How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
From verse 14
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Open the full verse study23¶ Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
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Open the full verse study1I SAW the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.
2Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:
3And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:
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Open the full verse study11¶ I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
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Open the full verse study16There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
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Open the full verse study16But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
17One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.
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Open the full verse study20But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
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