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Read Full Chapter (Amos 5) Amos 5:4-5 KJV
"For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live: But seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to nought."
Amos 5:4-5 in Context (Verses 1–8 KJV)
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Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
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The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
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For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.
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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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But seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to nought.
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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 Beth-el.
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Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
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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: