Amos 7:10-17

AMOS—NOTE ON Amos 7:10 If the plumb line according to which Israel was constructed was the Law, then the priesthood should have held Israel accountable to it (Deuteronomy 33:10; Malachi 2:6). But the priesthood itself was corrupt (see 1 Kings 12:31 for how the first King Jeroboam had ruined the priesthood for the northern kingdom). Thus, there was no external standard being applied by which Israel’s true condition could be recognized and corrected. The end truly was at hand.