Amaziah also said to Amos, "You seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
"It is the king's sanctuary ..." "It was founded by the king (1 Kings 12:28), and not by God; so, in truth, it had only an earthly sanction,"[36] although it may be doubted that Amaziah noticed the self-convicting admission of these words.  There is a world of difference in God's sanctuary and the king's sanctuary.  Barnes said that in three places only in the Old Testament is the alleged sanctuary of God called the sanctuary of Israel, here, and in  Lamentations 1:10, and  Leviticus 26:31.[37] Christ likewise designated the Jewish temple in Jerusalem  (Matthew 24:38), "Behold, your house is left unto you desolate."