10-11. A priest of Bethel named Amaziah tells King Jeroboam that Amos is prophesying against Israel and saying that the LORD will destroy Israel and Jeroboam as well.
12. Amaziah tells Amos to go back to Judah and stop troubling the people of Israel.
13. Amaziah tells Amos that Bethel is "a sanctuary of the king and a royal residence" and so it is not a proper place for the kinds of things that Amos is saying.
I assume that this means that Bethel is a place where the King of Israel lives and worships.
14. Amos says that he is not a prophet, so there is no sense in telling him to stop prophesying. He is a farmer and a keeper of herds.
15. He is just an ordinary person speaking out the words that the LORD told Him to say.
16-17. Then Amos delivers a message from the LORD to Amaziah: the judgment of Israel will surely come, in spite of Amaziah's unwillingness to hear of it. Amaziah's wife will be reduced to prostitution, his children will be killed, and he will be carried into exile and die in a foreign land. As for Israel, it will be conquered and the people will go into exile.
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