Read Amos 7.10-17 Amos preaches at Bethel.
This is the only narrative in Amos describing an event in Amos's career and a specific settling in which he preached.
Upon hearing Amos's unfavorable prediction about Jeroboam, king of Israel, Amaziah, priest of Bethel, responds in two ways: He sends word to Jeroboam in Samaria (vv. 10-11), and he banishes Amos from Bethel, one of Israel's major religious centers (vv. 12-13).
Amaziah appears to claim that Amos, from the Judean town of Tekoa )1.1), should earn his living as a prophet in his own country of Judah (" earn your bread there," v. 12), and stay out of Israel's affairs.
When Amos responds that he is not a prophet but a shepherd and a farmer (v. 14), he may mean that he is not earning his living as a (professional) prophet at all, but rather communicating an unexpected but genuine divine revelation.
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