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Amos 5:14 KJV
Amos · chapter 5 · verse 14
Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.Amos 5:14 · King James Version
Amos 5:14 in context
12For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
13Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
14Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
15Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
16Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
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Key words (Strong's)
- hoststsâbâʼa mass of persons , especially reg. organized forwarH6635 →
- Seekdârashproperly, to tread or frequentH1875 →
- goodṭôwbgood in the widest senseH2896 →
- evilraʻbad or evilH7451 →
- livechâyâhto live, whether literally or figurativelyH2421 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
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This is a message from God to the house of Israel, in which, I. They are told of their faults, that they might see what occasion there was for them to repent and reform, and that, when they were called to return, they might not need to ask, Wherein shall we return? 1.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 4-15