Amos 5:8

The One who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns the darkness into morning, and daytime into night, who calls for the water of the seas, and pours it down as rain upon the earth—the Lord is his name!

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In The King James Version

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:

In Context

7You twist justice and make it bitter, you throw integrity to the ground.

9In a flash he cuts down the strong and destroys the fortresses.

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Cross References

Genesis 7:11Noah was 600 when on the seventeenth day of the second month all the subterranean waters burst through the earth, and heavy rain poured down from the sky.

Exodus 14:24But at the end of the night the Lord looked down on the Egyptian army from the pillar of fire and cloud, and he threw them into a panic.

Job 9:9He made the constellations of the Bear, Orion, the Pleiades, and the stars of the southern sky.

Job 37:13He does this to accomplish his will, either to discipline or to show his goodness.

Job 38:31Can you tie together the stars of the Pleiades? Can you loosen the belt of the Orion constellation?

Psalms 104:6It was clothed with ocean depths—the waters even covered the mountains—

Matthew Henry on Amos 5:5-16

God's Message to Israel; The Aggravated Sins of Israel; Warnings and Exhortations; Exhortations and Encouragements. ( b. c. 790.) 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 Beer-sheba: 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… Read the whole commentary →

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