3 Then the sons of the prophets+ that were at Bethʹel came out to E·liʹsha and said to him: “Do you really know that today Jehovah is taking your master* from headship over you?”+ At this he said: “I, too, well know it.+ BE silent.”

14 Then Aʹmos answered and said to Am·a·ziʹah: “I was not a prophet, neither was I the son of a prophet;*+ but I was a herdsman+ and a nipper of figs of sycamore trees.