Amos 7:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it is the king's chapel, and it is the king's court.

Amos 7:13 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 2:12
But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
1 Kings 12:32
And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.
1 Kings 12:29
And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.
1 Kings 13:1
And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.
Acts 4:17-18
But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 10-17)

One would have expected, 1. That what we met with in the former part of the chapter would awaken the people to repentance, when they saw that they were reprieved in order that they might have space to repent and that they could not obtain a pardon unless the did repent. 2. That it would endear the prophet Amos to them, who had not only shown his good-will to them in praying against the judgments t…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

13. prophesy not again--(Am 2:12). at Beth-el--Amaziah wants to be let alone at least in his own residence. the king’s chapel--Beth-el was preferred by the king to Dan, the other seat of the calf-worship, as being nearer Samaria, the capital, and as hallowed by Jacob of old (Ge 28:16, 19; 35:6, 7). He argues by implication against Amos’ presumption, as a private man, in speaking against the worshi…