Amos 5:4

For, thus, saith Yahweh, to the house of Israel,—Seek me, and live;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:

In Context

3For, thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, The city that goeth out a thousand strong, shall have left it a hundred,—And, that which goeth out a hundred strong, shall have left it ten, belonging to the house of Israel.

5Then do not seek Bethel, and, Gilgal, shall ye not enter, and, unto Beer-sheba, shall ye not cross over, For, Gilgal, shall, surely go into exile, and, Bethel, shall become a trouble.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 30:1And it shall come to pass, when all these things shall come in upon thee—the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee,—and thou shalt bring them back unto thy heart among all the nations whither Yahweh thy God hath driven thee;

1 Chronicles 28:9Thou, therefore, Solomon my son, Know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing soul, for, all hearts, doth Yahweh search, and, every devised purpose, doth he understand,—If thou seek him, He will be found of thee, but, if thou forsake him, He will cast thee off for ever.

2 Chronicles 20:3And Jehoshaphat was afraid, and set his face to seek unto Yahweh,—and proclaimed a fast for all Judah.

2 Chronicles 34:3And, in the eighth year of his reign, he, being yet a boy, he began to seek unto the God of David his father,-and, in the twelfth year, he began to purify Judah and Jerusalem, from the high places and the Sacred Stems, and the carved images and the molten images.

Psalms 22:26The patient wronged-ones shall eat and be satisfied, They shall praise Yahweh, who are seekers of him, Let your heart live for aye.

Psalms 69:32The humbled have seen—they rejoice! Ye seekers of God, let your heart, then, revive;

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 →

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