Amós 5:5

5 não busquem Betel,não vão a Gilgal,não façam peregrinação a Berseba.Pois Gilgal^[a] certamente irá para o exílio,e Betel^[b] será reduzida a nada”.

Amós 5:5 Meaning and Commentary

Amos 5:5

But seek not Bethel
Do not go to Bethel, the place where one of Jeroboam's calves was set up and worshipped, to consult the oracle, idols, and priests there; or to perform religious worship, which will be your ruin, if not prevented by another course of living: nor enter into Gilgal;
another place of idolatry, where idols were set up and worshipped (See Gill on Amos 4:4); and pass not to Beersheba;
a place in the further part of the land of Israel; it formerly belonged to Judah, but was now in the hands of the ten tribes, and where idolatrous worship was practised; see ( Amos 8:14 ) ; it having been a place where Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, had dwelt, and worshipped the true God: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity;
that is, the inhabitants of it; they will not be able with their idols and idol worship to save themselves, and therefore go not thither. There is an elegant play on words here ^F2, as there is also in the next words: and Bethel shall come to nought;
which also was called Bethaven, the house of vanity, or of an idol which is nothing in the world; and therefore, because of the idolatry in it, should come to nothing, be utterly destroyed, and the inhabitants of it. So the Targum,

``they, that are in Gilgal, and worship calves in Bethel.''

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FOOTNOTES:

F2 (hlgy hlg lglgh) .

Amós 5:5 In-Context

3 Assim diz o Soberano, o SENHOR:“A cidade que mandar milpara o exército ficará com cem;e a que mandar cem ficará com dez”.

4 Assim diz o SENHOR à nação de Israel:“Busquem-me e terão vida;

5 não busquem Betel,não vão a Gilgal,não façam peregrinação a Berseba.Pois Gilgal certamente irá para o exílio,e Betel será reduzida a nada”.

6 Busquem o SENHOR e terão vida,do contrário, ele irromperá como um fogo entre os descendentes de José,e devastará a cidade de Betel,e não haverá ninguém ali para apagá-lo.

7 Vocês estão transformando o direito em amargurae atirando a justiça ao chão,

Footnotes

• [a]. "Gilgal " no hebraico assemelha-se à expressão aqui traduzida "por irá para o exílio."
• [b]. Hebraico: "Áven; " referência a "Bete-Áven " ("casa da iniquidade" ), nome depreciativo de "Betel, " que significa "casa de Deus."