&#8220;Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who are now prophesying. Say to the prophets who prophesy from their imagination:<n id="1" /> &#8216;Hear the word of the <sc>Lordsc>!

<p class="bodytext">Amos replied<n id="1" /> to Amaziah, &#8220;I was not a prophet by profession.<n id="2" /> No,<n id="3" /> I was a herdsman who also took care of<n id="4" /> sycamore fig trees.<n id="5" />

<p class="bodytext">Just then,<n id="1" /> while she was still speaking to the king, Nathan the prophet arrived.

<p class="poetry">the mighty men and warriors,p> <p class="poetry">judges and prophets,p> <p class="poetry">omen readers and leaders,<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">In the seventh month of that very same year<n id="1" /> the prophet Hananiah died.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;You say, &#8216;The <sc>Lordsc> has raised up prophets of good news<n id="1" /> for us here in Babylon.&#8217;

The <sc>Lordsc> gave the prophet Jeremiah a message for them. He told him to tell them,<n id="1" />

<p class="lamhebrew">&#1502; (<i>Memi>)p> <p class="poetry">But it happened<n id="1" /> due to the sins of her prophets<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and the iniquities of her priests,p> <p class="poetry">who poured out in her midstp> <p class="poetry">the blood of the righteous.p>

They will bear their punishment;<n id="1" /> the punishment of the one who sought an oracle will be the same as the punishment of the prophet who gave it<n id="2" />

When all this comes true &#8211; and it certainly will<n id="1" /> &#8211; then they will know that a prophet was among them.&#8221;p>

So the <sc>Lordsc> spoke through the prophet Haggai as follows:<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">So the <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;See, I have made you like God<n id="1" /> to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you &#8211; from your fellow Israelites;<n id="1" /> you must listen to him.

No prophet ever again arose in Israel like Moses, who knew the <sc>Lordsc> face to face.<n id="1" />

All Israel from Dan to Beer Sheba realized that Samuel was confirmed as a prophet of the <sc>Lordsc>.

So Saul inquired of the <sc>Lordsc>, but the <sc>Lordsc> did not answer him &#8211; not by dreams nor by Urim<n id="1" /> nor by the prophets.

and sent word through Nathan the prophet that he should be named Jedidiah<n id="1" /> for the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s sake.p>

<p class="bodytext">When David got up the next morning, the <sc>Lordsc> had already spoken<n id="1" /> to Gad the prophet, David&#8217;s seer:

But he did not invite Nathan the prophet, Benaiah, the elite warriors,<n id="1" /> or his brother Solomon.p>

<p class="bodytext">While they were sitting at the table, the <sc>Lordsc> spoke through the old prophet<n id="1" />