Amos 7:15

Amos explains that Yahweh took him from his flock and commanded him to prophesy to Israel. His ministry rests entirely on God's sovereign call.

Cross-references · 11

• 2 Sam 7:8Now therefore tell my servant David this, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people, over Israel.
• Ezek 2:3–4He said to me, “Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to a nation of rebels who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me even to this very day.
• Matt 9:9As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, “Follow me.” He got up and followed him.
• Ps 78:70–72He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;
• Matt 4:18–19Walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers: Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew, his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.
• Jer 1:7But Yahweh said to me, “Don’t say, ‘I am a child;’ for you must go to whomever I send you, and you must say whatever I command you.
• Acts 1:8But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”
• Acts 5:20“Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.”
• Luke 24:46–48He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,
• Acts 4:20for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”
• Acts 5:29–32But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

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