What is the context?
After victory, Amaziah brings back the gods of Seir and worships them. He turns from reliance on the Lord toward the objects associated with those he has defeated.
The prophet asks why he seeks gods unable to deliver their own people. Amaziah answers by challenging the prophet’s right to advise him and threatening violence.
The prophet stops speaking but announces the consequence of the king’s action and refusal to listen. Silencing correction does not establish that the course being corrected is right.
How is this passage commonly understood?
Wesley emphasizes the danger of treating reproof as an intrusion into royal privilege. The passage’s question about defeated gods exposes the inconsistency of Amaziah’s choice. It does not supply an otherwise unrecorded reason why he first decides to bring them home or make the prophet dependent on a royal appointment to speak.
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