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Amos 7:16

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

Now therefore hear thou the word of the Lord,.... Which I have from him concerning thee, and which he has pronounced upon thee and thy family:thou sayest, prophesy not against Israel; when God has bid me prophesy:and drop not [thy word] against the house of Isaac; say nothing against it, though in ever so soft and gentle a manner: it designs the same thing as before, only in different words; and is a prohibition of the prophet to prophesy against the ten tribes that descended from Isaac, in the line of Jacob.

So the Targum paraphrases it,"thou shalt not teach against the house of Isaac;''or deliver out any prophecy or doctrine that is against them, or threatens them with any calamity.

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