Amos Accused

¹⁰ Then Amaziah ^(A)the priest of Bethel sent to ^(B)Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has ^(C)conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.

⁴ Then the officials said to the king, ^(A)“Let this man be put to death, ^(B)for he is weakening the hands of the soldiers who are left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking such words to them. For this man is not seeking ^(C)the welfare of this people, but their harm.”

³¹ He also made ^(A)temples on high places and ^(B)appointed priests from among all the people, who were not of the Levites. ³² And Jeroboam appointed a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month like ^(C)the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar. So he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he made. And he placed in Bethel ^(D)the priests of the high places that he had made.

⁸ And when Jeremiah had finished speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak to all the people, then ^(A)the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold of him, saying, “You shall die! ⁹ Why have you prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘This house shall be ^(B)like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, ^(C)without inhabitant’?” And all the people gathered around Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.

¹⁰ When ^(D)the officials of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king's house to the house of the Lord and took their seat in the ^(E)entry of the New Gate of the house of the Lord. ¹¹ Then ^(F)the priests and the prophets said to the officials and to all the people, ^(G)“This man deserves the sentence of death, because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears.”

³³ After this thing Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but made priests for the high places again from among all the people. Any who would, he ordained to be priests of the high places.