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Amos 5:6

JosephBethel (of Palestine)
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4 For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!

5 Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.

Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.

7 There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.

8 He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth— the LORD is His name—

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BSB
Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.
KJV
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 Beth-el.
WEB
Seek the LORD, and you will live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.
ASV
Seek Jehovah, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be none to quench it in Beth-el.
DARBY
Seek Jehovah, 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.
BLB
Seek YHWH and live, lest He break out like fire [in] the house of Joseph, and devour [it], with no one to quench it in Bethel.
ÅB
Søk Herren, så skal dere leve! Ellers skal han komme over Josefs hus som en ild, og den skal fortære uten at Betel har noen som slukker!
OTB
Søk Herren, og lev,
for at Han ikke skal slippe løs en ild over Josefs hus,
som fortærer det uten at noen kan slukke den for Betel.
B1930
Søk Herren, så skal I leve! Ellers skal han komme over Josefs hus som en ild, og den skal fortære uten at Betel har nogen som slukker!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Isaiah 55:6

    Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.

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  • Ezekiel 20:47–48

    Say to the forest of the Negev: Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the Lord GOD says: I am about to ignite in you a fire, and it will devour all your trees, both green and dry. The blazing flame will not be quenched, and by it every face from south to north will be scorched.

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  • Ezekiel 33:11

    Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’

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  • Zechariah 10:6

    I will strengthen the house of Judah and save the house of Joseph. I will restore them because I have compassion on them, and they will be as though I had not rejected them. For I am the LORD their God, and I will answer them.

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  • Amos 5:14

    Seek good, not evil, so that you may live. And the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be with you, as you have claimed.

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  • Mark 9:43–48

    If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.

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  • Genesis 48:8–20

    When Israel saw the sons of Joseph, he asked, “Who are these?”

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  • Amos 5:4

    For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!

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