Amos 8:12

From sea to sea] i.e. from the Mediterranean to the Dead Sea.

14. The sin, or, rather, the 'guilt' of Samaria, is the idolatrous object worshipped by the Samaritans, either the calf at Bethel (1 Kings 12:29; Hosea 10:5), or the Asherah at Samaria (2 Kings 13:6).

The manner] RV 'the way of Beer-sheba' may perhaps mean the pilgrimage thither. Mohammedans swear by the pilgrimage to Mecca. But Amos not improbably wrote, 'By the life of the deity of Beer-sheba.'