Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
break out like fire—bursting through everything in His way. God is "a consuming fire" (Deuteronomy 4:24; Isaiah 10:17; Lamentations 2:3).
the house of Joseph—the kingdom of Israel, of which the tribe of Ephraim, Joseph's son, was the chief tribe (compare Ezekiel 37:16).
none to quench it in Beth-el—that is, none in Beth-el to quench it; none of the Beth-el idols on which Israel so depended, able to remove the divine judgments.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Amos 5:6:
Amos 4:12
Amos 5:15
Amos 6:6
Zephaniah 2:3
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