Bible Dictionary

Chapel

A holy place or sanctuary, occurs only in Amos 7:13, where one of the idol priests calls Bethel “the king’s chapel.”

Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)

A holy place or sanctuary, occurs only in Amos 7:13, where one of the idol priests calls Bethel “the king’s chapel.”

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898) & Schaff's Bible Dictionary

CHAP'EL . The word occurs. Am 7:13, as a mistranslation for SANCTUARY, a place of worship. Bethel is called the king's sanctuary by one of the idol-priests, because there the king of Israel paid idolatrous worship to the golden calves. See Bethel.