Amos 5:4
For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 30:1“When all these things come upon you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you,
1 Chronicles 28:9As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.
2 Chronicles 20:3Jehoshaphat was alarmed and set his face to seek the LORD. And he proclaimed a fast throughout Judah.
2 Chronicles 34:3In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.
Psalms 22:26The poor will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD will praise Him. May your hearts live forever!
Psalms 69:32The humble will see and rejoice. You who seek God, let your hearts be revived!
Matthew Henry on Amos 5:2-4
Invitations and Warnings. ( b. c. 790.) 1 Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel. 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. 3 For thus saith the Lord God ; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave a hundred, and that which went forth by a hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel. This chapter begins, as those two next foregoing began, with, Hear this word. Where God has a mouth… Read the whole commentary →