Amos 8:11-14
Summary for Amos 8:11-14: 8:11-14 a famine ... of hearing the words of the Lord: God sent prophets to Israel to speak his words directly to them, but Israel commanded the prophets not to prophesy (2:11-12 b). Now they had what they wanted, but it was a silence more terrible than his roar and thunder: God became distant (see Ezek 7:26 c; 20:3 d; Mic 3:4 e, 7 f). The time for speaking was over; the time of judgment had come.8:12 g from border to border: The natural boundaries of Israel were from sea to sea: the Mediterranean Sea on the west and the Dead Sea on the east. The other borders are simply called the north and the east.
8:14 h The god of Dan refers to the northern shrine of the gold calf established by Jeroboam I (see 1 Kgs 12:28-29 i; 2 Kgs 10:29 j).
• the god of Beersheba: Evidently Beersheba had become a center of worship in the southern kingdom. Archaeologists have found the remains of a horned altar in the ruins of Beersheba.
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