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The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:4

The more formal proof that Israel has merited her punishment here begins. In calling her to repentance the prophet contrasts God's requirements with her actual conduct. Seek ye me, and ye shall live . Two imperatives: "Seek me, and (so) live;" duty and its reward. "Seek me in the appointed way, and ye shall be saved from destruction" (comp. Genesis 42:18 ). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:4

Seek the Lord. Man is by nature a seeker. He desires good, of one kind or another, and what he desires he makes the object of his quest, more or less diligent and persevering. Hence the restlessness, the energy, the effort, so distinctive of human life. Religion does not destroy or repress natural characteristics; it hallows and dignifies them. Religion gives to human search a just direction and noble aim. I. THE REASONS IN MAN 'S NATURE AND CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:4

Seeking the Lord. "For thus saith the Lord unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live." It is impossible to read this chapter without noticing the tenderness of the prophet, his compassion and pitifulness, his yearning wish to help and save. This feeling is the more remarkable because Amos belonged to the tribe of Judah, and felt thus towards the neighbouring and hostile kingdom of Israel. Such pity is ever a sign of Divine inspiration. Thus Isaiah ( Isaiah 22:4 ) says,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:4-6

The seeking that is life. This passage contains at once a vindication of the coming destruction on Israel, and a last offer of escape. All past evil had been justly incurred by departure from God. All coming evil might yet be avoided by return to him. "Seek ye me" was the direction on their treatment of which the whole issue turned. I. EVEN THE FOREDOOMED ARE NOT ABANDONED OF GOD . The antediluvians were preached to for a century after their destruction was denounced.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:5

Bethel … Gilgal. The scenes of idolatrous worship, where was no true seeking of God (see note on Amos 4:4 ). Beersheba . A spot about fifty miles southsouthwest of Jerusalem, the site of which has never been lost, and is marked to this day by seven much-frequented wells. As being one of the holy places celebrated in the history of the patriarchs ( Genesis 21:31 , Genesis 21:33 ; Genesis 26:23 , etc.; Genesis 46:1 ), it had become a shrine of idolatrous worship, to which the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:6

Break out like fire. God is called "a consuming fire" ( Deuteronomy 4:24 ; Hebrews 12:29 ; comp. Jeremiah 4:4 ). And devour it; Septuagint, ὅπως μὴ ἀναλάμψη ὡς πῦρ ὁ οἶκος ἰωσὴφ καὶ καταφάγῃ αὐτόν , "Lest the house of Joseph blaze as fire, and he devour him;" Vulgate, Ne forte comburatur ut ignis domus Joseph, et devorabit. But it is best to take the last member of the sentence thus: "and it (the fire) devour." The house of Joseph. Ephraim, i.e. the kingdom... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 5:4

Seek ye Me and ye shall live - Literally, “seek Me; and live.” Wonderful conciseness of the word of God, which, in two words, comprises the whole of the creature’s duty and his hopes, his time and his eternity. The prophet users the two imperatives, inoneing both, man’s duty and his reward. He does not speak of them, as cause and effect, but as one. Where the one is, there is the other. To seek God is to live. For to seek God is to find Him, and God is Life and the Source of life. Forgiveness,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 5:5

But (and) seek not Bethel - Israel pretended to seek God in Bethel. Amos sets the two seeking, as incompatible. The god, worshiped at Bethel, was not the One God. To seek God there was to lose Him. “Seek not God,” he would say, “and a phantom, which will lead from God.”And pass not to Beersheba - Jeroboam I pretended that it was too much for Israel to go up to Jerusalem. And Yet Israel thought it not too much to go to the extremest point of Judah toward Idumaea , perhaps, four times as far... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 5:6

Seek ye the Lord and ye shall live - Literally, “seek the Lord and live;” being united to Him, the Fountain of life. He reimpresses on them the one simple need of the creature, “seek God,” the one true God as He revealed Himself, not as worldly people, or the politicians of Jeroboam’s court, or the calf-priests, fabled of Him. “Seek Him.” For in Him is all; without Him, nothing.Lest He break out like fire in Bethel - Formerly the Spirit of God came vehemently down upon Sansom Judges 14:6,... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 5:4-5

Amos 5:4-5 . For Or rather, nevertheless, seek ye me, and ye shall live That is, ye shall be prosperous again; for life, in the Scripture language, is used to express prosperity, or happiness. This shows, that what was said in the 2d verse, of their being fallen to rise no more, is to be taken as it is there explained; namely, in case they did not repent, but continued in their wickedness. But seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, &c. The places here named, it is probable,... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:4-6

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:5

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 5:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 5:5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 5:6

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 5:4-5

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