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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 7:11

For thus Amos saith - Amos had said, “Thus saith the Lord;” he never fails to impress on them, whose words he is speaking. Amaziah, himself bound up in a system of falsehood and imposture, which, being a creature-worship, gave itself out as the worship of the true God, believed all besides to be fraud. Fraud always suspects fraud; the irreligious think devotion, holiness, saintliness to be hypocrisy: vice imagines virtue to be well-masked vice. The false priest, by a sort of law of corrupt... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 7:12

Jeroboam apparently took no account of the false priest’s message. Perhaps the memory of the true prophecies of Elisha as to the successes of his father, and of Jonah as to his own, fulfilled in his own person and still recent, inspired him with a reverence for God’s prophets. To know his motive or motives, we must know his whole character, which we do not. Amaziah, failing of his purpose, uses his name as far as he dares. “Seer, go flee thee.” He probably uses the old title for a prophet, in... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 7:13

It is the king’s chapel - Better, as in the English margin, “sanctuary.” It is the name for “the sanctuary” of God. “Let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them” Exodus 25:8. “Ye shall reverence My sanctuary: I am the Lord” Leviticus 19:30; Leviticus 26:2. It is most often spoken of as, “The sanctuary” ; elsewhere, but always with emphasis, of reverence, sanctity, devotion, protection, it is called “His sanctuary; My sanctuary; Thy sanctuary; the sanctuary of the Lord of God, of... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 7:7-9

Amos 7:7-9. The Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumb-line A wall strongly and beautifully built. God’s judgments are sometimes represented in Scripture by a line and a plummet, to denote that they are measured out by the exactest rules of justice. Behold, I will set a plumb-line in the midst of my people Israel I will exactly measure my people Israel; I will take a particular view of the whole kingdom of the ten tribes, and notice how far it is right, or how far it is out of order, and... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 7:10-11

Amos 7:10-11. Then Amaziah the priest of Beth-el sent to Jeroboam This was a priest not of the tribe of Levi, but such a one as those were whom Jeroboam I. had consecrated to perform the idolatrous services at Beth-el: see 1 Kings 12:31. Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst, &c. That is, in an open and barefaced manner. He represents the prophet as exciting sedition, because he denounced destruction against the kingdom, and threatened the house of Jeroboam. The same crime was... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 7:12-13

Amos 7:12-13. Amaziah said, O thou seer, go flee, &c. Thou that sayest thou art a prophet, get thee hence, where thou signifiest that thou art so much displeased with the actions of the people, and go into the land of Judah Where it is likely thou wilt be better entertained than thou art here. And there eat bread, &c. There they will feed thee well, because thou pretendest to be a prophet. Prophesy not at Beth-el, for it is the king’s chapel, &c. This is the place where... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Amos 7:1-9

7:1-9:10 VISIONS OF JUDGMENTGod’s patience before judgment (7:1-9)Farmers paid their taxes by giving the king the first reaping of their harvest. After this a second crop grew up, which provided the main harvest for the people. It was this second crop that Amos, in his vision, saw threatened with destruction from a plague of locusts. If God judged Israel in this way, it might never recover. When Amos pleaded on Israel’s behalf for God’s mercy, God answered his prayer (7:1-3). God later answered... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Amos 7:10-17

Amos and Amaziah (7:10-17)Amaziah the priest heard Amos’s preaching at Bethel, and was furious that he so boldly denounced Israel’s religious practices. He planned to get rid of the unwelcome prophet by accusing him of treason because of his announcements of judgment on the royal house (10-11; see also v. 9).The king apparently took no interest in the priest’s accusations. Amaziah therefore tried to persuade Amos to return to Judah, where people would welcome his prophecies against Israel and... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Amos 7:9

high places. Used for idolatrous altars, &c. Isaac . . . Israel. Used only by Amos in this sense. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6 , for the nation of Israel. Compare Pe. Psalms 105:9 , Psalms 105:10 . Jeremiah 33:26 , &c. I will rise against, &c. Fulfilled in 2 Kings 15:10 . Jeroboam. Compare Hosea 1:4 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Amos 7:10

the priest. The idolatrous priest. Beth-el. Compare Amos 3:14 ; Amos 4:4 ; Amos 5:5 , Amos 5:6 . conspired = formed a conspiracy; the calves being connected with Israel's state policy (1 Kings 12:26-33 ). in the midst, &c. : i.e. openly. Compare Amos 7:8 . bear = endure. read more

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 7:11

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 7:12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 7:13

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 7:7-9

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 7:10-11

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 7:12-13

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Amos 7:1-9

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Amos 7:10-17

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Amos 7:9

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Amos 7:10

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