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Amos 5:6 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: King James Version

" Seek 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 5:6

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4 For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:

5 But 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.

6 Seek 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.

7 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

8 Seek 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:

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Ezekiel 20:47-48

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"And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned"

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From This Chapter

Amos 5:1

"Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel."

Amos 5:2

"The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up."

Amos 5:3

"For 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."

Amos 5:4

"For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:"

Amos 5:5

"But 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."

Amos 5:7

"Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,"
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