but don't prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a royal house!"
It is then the house of the kingdom He now speaks of the secular arm, as they say, and shows that though religion were to perish a hundred times, yet care was to be taken, lest Amos should pull up by the roots the kingdom of Jeroboam, and the customs of the people. It now follows — 