Amos 5:6

Amos 5:6

A Call to Repentance

4 For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel:
^a“Seek Me ^band live;

5 But do not seek ^aBethel,
Nor enter Gilgal,
Nor pass over to ^bBeersheba;
For Gilgal shall surely go into captivity,
And ^cBethel shall come to nothing.

6 ^aSeek the Lord and live,
Lest He break out like fire in the house of Joseph,
And devour it,
With no one to quench it in Bethel—

7 You who ^aturn justice to wormwood,
And lay righteousness to rest in the earth!”

8 He made the ^aPleiades and Orion;
He turns the shadow of death into morning
^bAnd makes the day dark as night;
He ^ccalls for the waters of the sea
And pours them out on the face of the earth;
^dThe Lord is His name.

9 He¹ rains ruin upon the strong,
So that fury comes upon the fortress.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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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
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