Then Amaziah the priest of Beth El sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.
"Jeroboam shall die by the sword ..." Incredibly, some have defended this slander upon the basis that, "it is basically correct."[30]  Indeed no!  On the contrary, it is a base and unprincipled lie.  As the Catholic Bible puts it: