Amos 5:4
For this is what Yahweh says to the house of Israel: 1 “Seek me and live! 1
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For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:
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Deuteronomy 30:1When all these things have come on you, the blessings and the curses that I have set before you, and when you call them to mind among all the other nations where Yahweh your God has driven you,
1 Chronicles 28:9As for you, Solomon my son, obey the God of your father, and serve him with your whole heart and a willing spirit. Do this because Yahweh searches all hearts and understands every motivation of everyone's thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you abandon him, he will reject you permanently.
2 Chronicles 20:3Jehoshaphat became afraid and set himself to seek Yahweh. He proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
2 Chronicles 34:3For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek after the God of David, his ancestor. In the twelfth year, he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, the Asherah poles, and the carved figures and the cast metal figures.
Psalms 22:26The oppressed will eat and be satisfied; 1 those who seek Yahweh will praise him. 1 May your hearts live forever. 1
Psalms 69:32The meek have seen it and are glad; 1 you who seek after God, let your hearts live. 1
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 →