OLD TESTAMENT

Amos 7:12

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Amaziah also said to Amos, “You seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there,

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Verse 12. Seer. This was the ancient title of prophets; (1 Kennicott. 9:9. Calmet.) but it is here used contumeliously. Bible.—We know not whether Amasias acted by the king’s order or not. He was less afraid of the predictions than of losing his employment. Calmet.

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