Amos 7:13 - Exposition

The king's chapel ; i.e. "a sanctuary" ( Exodus 25:8 ; Le 19:30) founded by the king ( 1 Kings 12:28 ), not by God. So in truth it had only an earthly sanction, and the prophet of the Lord was out of place there. The king's court; literally, house of the kingdom. "National temple" (Kuenen); "a royal temple, the state church" (Pusey). Not the political, but the religious, capital, the chief seat of the religion appertaining to the nation. Amaziah speaks as a thorough Erastian; as if the human authority were everything, and the Lord, of himself, had no claims on the land.