Amos 2:11

Amos 2:11

9 “Yet it was I who destroyed the ^aAmorite before them,
Whose height was like the ^bheight of the cedars,
And he was as strong as the oaks;
Yet I ^cdestroyed his fruit above
And his roots beneath.

10 Also it was ^aI who brought you up from the land of Egypt,
And ^bled you forty years through the wilderness,
To possess the land of the Amorite.

11 I raised up some of your sons as ^aprophets,
And some of your young men as ^bNazirites.
Is it not so, O you children of Israel?”
Says the Lord.

12 “But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink,
And commanded the prophets ^asaying,
‘Do not prophesy!’

13 “Behold,^a I am weighed down by you,
As a cart full of sheaves¹ is weighed down.

14 ^aTherefore¹ flight shall perish from the swift,
The strong shall not strengthen his power,
^bNor shall the mighty¹ deliver himself;

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Additional obligations under which Israel lay to God; the prophets and Nazarites, appointed by Him, to furnish religious instruction and examples of holy self-restraint.

of your young men—It was a specimen of Israel's highly favored state, that, of the class most addicted to pleasures, God chose those who by a solemn vow bound themselves to abstinence from all produce of the vine, and from all ceremonial and moral defilement. The Nazarite was not to shave (Numbers 6:2, etc.). God left nothing undone to secure the purity of their worship and their faithfulness to it (Lamentations 4:7). The same comes from a Hebrew root, nazar, "to set apart." Samson, Samuel, and John the Baptist were Nazarites.

Is it not even thus—Will any of you dare to deny it is so?

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