Amos 7:14
Then Amos answered Amaziah, “I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son, but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs;
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Amos 7:14
Then Amos answered Amaziah, “I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son, but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs;
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Amos 7:15
and Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’
Amos 1:1
The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
Zechariah 13:5
but he will say, ‘I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for I have been made a bondservant from my youth.’
Psalms 78:70
He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;
Psalms 78:71
from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.
Psalms 78:72
So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.
Exodus 3:1
Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain, to Horeb.
Matthew 4:18
Walking 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.
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2 Kings 4:38
Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, “Get the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”
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1 Kings 10:27
The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and cedars as common as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.
Isaiah 9:10
“The bricks have fallen, but we will build with cut stone. The sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.”
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