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Amos 5:4-6 KJV
Amos · chapter 5 · verses 4–6 · King James Version
4For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live: 5But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought. 6Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.Amos 5:4-6 · King James Version
Amos 5:4-6 in context
2The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
3For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.
4For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:
5But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.
6Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.
7Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
8Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:
Cross references
- Zephaniah 2:3
- 2 Chronicles 15:2
- Jeremiah 29:12-13
- Psalms 14:2
- Isaiah 55:3
- Isaiah 55:6-7
- Psalms 105:3-4
- Matthew 7:8
Key words (Strong's)
- BeershebaBᵉʼêr ShebaʻBeer-Sheba, a place in PalestineH884 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- BethelBêyth-ʼÊlBeth-El, a place in PalestineH1008 →
- GilgalGilgâlGilgal, the name of three places in PalestineH1537 →
- surelygâlâhto denudeH1540 →
- JosephYôwçêphJoseph, the name of seven IsraelitesH3130 →
- devourʼâkalto eatH398 →
- quenchkâbâhto expire or to extinguishH3518 →
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