Amos 7:10

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

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the priest: 1 Kings 12:31, 1 Kings 12:32, 1 Kings 13:33, 2 Kings 14:23, 2 Kings 14:24, 2 Chronicles 13:8, 2 Chronicles 13:9, Jeremiah 20:1-3, Jeremiah 29:26, Jeremiah 29:27, Matthew 21:23, This was truly a lying prophet; there was not one word of truth in his message to Jeroboam.

hath: 1 Kings 18:17, Jeremiah 26:8-11, Jeremiah 37:13-15, Jeremiah 38:4, Luke 23:2, Acts 5:28, Acts 24:5

not: Genesis 37:8, Jeremiah 18:18, Acts 7:54

Reciprocal: Exodus 5:4 - wherefore Numbers 16:41 - Ye have 1 Samuel 22:13 - Why have 1 Kings 13:4 - Lay hold 1 Kings 21:13 - the king 2 Kings 14:16 - Jeroboam 2 Chronicles 25:16 - Art thou made Isaiah 29:21 - and lay Jeremiah 1:1 - words Jeremiah 6:10 - the word Jeremiah 20:2 - smote Jeremiah 26:9 - Why Jeremiah 36:16 - We Ezekiel 2:6 - though they Hosea 7:3 - General Amos 5:10 - hate Luke 11:45 - thou John 21:25 - that even Acts 17:6 - These 2 Timothy 4:3 - they will

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel,.... The Targum calls him the prince or president of Bethel; and the word used signifies both a prince and a priest; and very probably this man had the care of the civil as well as religious matters in Bethel. Aben Ezra styles him the priest of Baal; he was one that succeeded the priests that Jeroboam the son of Nebat placed here, to offer sacrifices to the calf he set up in this place, 1 Kings 12:32; who hearing the above three visions of Amos delivered, and fearing that he would alienate the people from the idolatrous worship he was at the head of, and frighten them from an attendance on it, which would lessen his esteem with the people, and also his worldly gain and profit; and observing that Amos did not make any intercession for the averting of the judgment threatened in the last vision, as in the other two, and which particularly concerned the king's family: he

sent to Jeroboam king of Israel; either letters or messengers, or both; who, it seems, was not at this time at Bethel, but at some other place; perhaps Samaria, which was not a great way from hence:

saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the land of Israel; he speaks of Amos as if he was well known to the king, and perhaps he might be, having long prophesied in the land of Israel, and near the court; and represents him as a seditious person, not as affecting the crown and kingdom himself, but as stirring up a spirit, of rebellion among the people; taking off their affections from their prince, and them from their allegiance to him, by representing him as a wicked person that would in a little time be cut off; and this he did not privately, and in a corner, but publicly, in the midst of the land, and before all the people of Israel; and this was no new and unusual thing to represent good man, and especially ministers of the word, as enemies to the civil government, when none are truer friends to it, or more quiet under it:

the land is not able to bear all his words; either to withstand the power of them; they will have such an influence upon the people, if timely care is not taken, as to cause them both to reject the established religion and worship at Dan and Bethel, and to rise up in arms against the civil government, and dethrone him the king; such terrible things he says to the people, as will frighten them, and put them upon taking such measures as these: or else the prophet's words were so intolerable, that his good subjects, the inhabitants of the land could not bear them; and if he did not give orders himself to take away his life, they would rise up against him, and dispatch him themselves.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Amaziah, the priest of Bethel - Was probably the high priest, in imitation of the high priest of the order of Aaron and of God’s appointment. For the many high places around Bethel required many idol-priests; and a splendid counterfeit of the ritual at Jerusalem, which should rival it in the eyes of Israel, was part of the policy of the first Jeroboam. Amaziah was at the head of this imposture, in a position probably of wealth and dignity among his people. Like “Demetriers the silversmith” Acts 19:0, he thought that the craft whereby he had his wealth was endangered. To Jeroboam, however, he says nothing of these fears. To the king he makes it an affair of state. He takes the king by what he expected to be his weak side, fear for his own power or life. “Amos hath conspired against thee.” So to Jeremiah “the captain of the ward” said, “Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans” Jeremiah 37:13.

And the princes; “Let this man be put to death, for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt” Jeremiah 38:4. And of our Lord they said to Pilate, “If thou let this Man go, thou art not Caesar’s friend. Whosoever maketh himself a king, is an enemy to Caesar” John 19:12. And of the Apostles; “these men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city, and teach customs which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans” Acts 16:20-21; and, “these that have turned the world upside down are come hither also - and these all do contrary to the decrees of Cesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus” Acts 17:6-7. And so the pagan, who were ever conspiring against the Roman Emperors, went on accusing the early Christians as disloyal to the Emperors, factious, impious, because they did not offer sacrifices for them to false gods, but prayed for them to the True God . Some doubtless, moved by the words of Amos, had forsaken the state-idolatry, reformed their lives, worshiped God with the prophet; perhaps they were called in contempt by his name, “Amosites” or “Judaizers,” and were counted as “his” adherents, not as the worshipers of the one true God, “the God of their fathers.” Whence Amaziah gained the plea of a “conspiracy,” of which Amos was the head. For a “conspiracy” cannot be of one man. The word, by its force, signifies “banded;” the idiom, that he “banded” others “together against” 1Sa 22:8, 1 Samuel 22:13; 1 Kings 15:27; 1Ki 16:9, 1 Kings 16:16; 2 Kings 10:9; 2Ki 14:19; 2 Kings 15:10, 2 Kings 15:15, 2 Kings 15:25; 2 Kings 21:23 the king. To us Amaziah attests the power of God’s word by His prophet; “the land,” that is, the whole people, “is not able to bear his words,” being shaken through and through.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Amos 7:10. Amaziah the priest of Beth-el — The idolatrous priest who had been established by the king to maintain the worship of the golden calves which Jeroboam the elder had set up at this place.

Amos hath conspired against thee — This was truly a lying prophet; there is not one word of truth in this message which he sent to Jeroboam. Amos had not conspired against the king-had not said that Jeroboam should die by the sword-and had not said that Israel should be carried away captive, though this last was implied in God's threatening and afterwards delivered by this prophet; see Amos 7:17.