Charles Ellicott Commentary Amos 7:17

"therefore thus saith Jehovah: Thy wife shall be a harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou thyself shalt die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land." — Amos 7:17 (ASV)

Harlot.— This doom on Amaziah’s wife is to be regarded as the hideous consequence of war. She will be ravished. By the polluted land we are to understand Assyria, or the land of exile; for food eaten in any land other than Canaan, the land of Jehovah, was regarded as unclean (see W. R. Smith, O.T. in Jewish Church, pp. 235–238). We hear no more of Amaziah, nor do we know how or where he met his doom.