Amos 7 Commentary. Israel must be told so they will know it is not YHWHs weakness or lack of compassion but their sin that has brought this on them also a warning to Judah. Amaziah construes Amos words against them as treason.
I will spare them no longer. AMAZIAHS CHARGE AGAINST AMOS. Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah.
Verses 10-17 describe his encounter with the priest Amaziah which results in Amos being banned from the temple at Bethel.
God contending with Israel by the judgments but are reprieved and the judgments turned away at the prayer of Amos v. In this chapter we have I. The remembrance of the mercies we formerly received like the produce of the earth of the former growth should make us submissive to the will of God when we meet with disappointments in the latter growth. This was fulfilled by Uzziah 2 Chronicles 266 whence it was afterward called Gaza which is desert.
