12. Then Amaziah said to Amos: “Seer, go away! Flee back to the land of Judah. Eat bread there, and prophesy there.
13. But at Bethel you are not to prophesy any more—for it is a royal sanctuary and a house of the kingdom.”
14. So Amos responded and said to Amaziah: “I am no prophet, nor am I a son of a prophet. Rather, I am a shepherd tending fig trees.
15. But Adonai took me from following the flock and Adonai said to me: ‘Go, prophesy to My people Israel.’