Bible Strands
Amos 7:11
for this is what Amos has said: ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Amaziah the priest of Bethel relays this message to King Jeroboam, reporting Amos’s prophecy that the king will be killed in battle and the nation will be removed from its territory.
The words — בַּחֶרֶב (ba-ḥerev) literally means “by the sword,” specifying the instrument of Jeroboam’s death, while יָרָבְעָם (Yāḇṓʿam) directly names the reigning king as the first target of the judgment.
The thread — The deportation of Israel is recorded in 2 Kings 17:6 as the Assyrian conquest of Samaria, and the theme of forced removal echoes the earlier warning in Amos 6:7 that the elite will become the first captives.
Why it lands — The passage requires readers to acknowledge that spoken prophetic declarations function as binding historical outcomes, demanding a sober assessment of the political and spiritual consequences of opposing them.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.
Cross-references
- 2 Kings 17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.
- Amos 6:7 Therefore, you will now go into exile as the first of the captives, and your feasting and lounging will come to an end.
- Psalms 56:5 All day long they twist my words; all their thoughts are on my demise.
- Amos 7:9 The high places of Isaac will be deserted, and the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with My sword.”
- Jeremiah 28:10 Then the prophet Hananiah took the yoke off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke it.
- Matthew 26:61 and declared, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.’”
- Acts 6:14 For we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.”
- Jeremiah 26:9 How dare you prophesy in the name of the LORD that this house will become like Shiloh and this city will be desolate and deserted!” And all the people assembled against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.