Amos 7:13

"Amaziah also said to Amos, “You seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there,"

Key Reflection

Amaziah's command to Amos reflects a challenge to his ministry, urging him to leave Israel and continue his prophecies in Judah where he might find more receptive ears. This incident highlights the resistance faced by prophets as they deliver messages of judgment, emphasizing the tension between divine truth and human opposition.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

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 his God ; whence God Himself is called “a sanctuary”Isaiah 8:14;Ezekiel 11:16, as a place of refuge.

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