16Now therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;
Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.
Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,
My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it is the king's chapel, and it is the king's court.
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…
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