King James Version
Amos 2:11 in the King James Version says “And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Is...” — study this verse from Amos chapter 2 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD.”
Amos 2:11 · KJV
Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD.
But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves. I am: or, I will press your place, as a cart full of sheaves presseth
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And I raised up”
H6965to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
“Is it not even thus O ye children”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“and of your young men”
H970properly, selected, i.e., a youth (often collective)
“for Nazarites”
H5139separate, i.e., consecrated (as prince, a nazirite); hence (figuratively from the latter) an unpruned vine (like an unshorn nazirite)
meaning accession (used as an adverb or conjunction); also or yea; adversatively though
“Is it not even thus O ye children”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
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