Observe the awful character of this golden calf-priest. While carrying on a private charge against poor Amos to the king, he recommends him, as a kind friend, to run away from his station, and to gain popular favour among the men of Judah. Perhaps he intended, had he accomplished his purpose, to bring him back again for punishment, as his flight would have implied his guilt in the charge of conspiring against the king. And as Amaziah had no one object in his office of priesthood, but gain: so he advised Amos to gain plenty of bread by his prophecy in Judah. The king's chapel, and the king's court, are striking expressions, to shew what an awful state of religion the kingdom was then in, under such idolatrous services, and such idolatrous high-priests as Amaziah. Oh! the long-suffering and patience of the Lord!
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Amos 7:12-13
12 Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
13 But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it is the king's chapel,b and it is the king's court.