Amos 5:5
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| Overview - Amos 5 | |
| 1 | A lamentation for Israel. |
| 4 | An exhortation to repentance. |
| 21 | God rejects their hypocritical service. |
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Amos 5:5 (King James Version)
But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.
- seek
- 4:4 Hosea 4:15 ; 9:15 Hosea 10:14 Hosea 10:15 12:11
- Beer-sheba
- 8:14 Genesis 21:33
- Gilgal
- There is a paronomasia here, both on the letters and words: {hag-gilgal galoh yigleh oovaith el yiheyeh lewen,} "Gilgal
- shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el (the house of God) shall come to nought," or Aven, ie., Beth-aven, the house of iniquity.
- and Beth-el
- 7:17 Leviticus 26:30-32 ; Deuteronomy 28:41 ; Hosea 4:15 ; Hosea 10:8 Hosea 10:15
- come
- Job 8:22 ; Psalms 33:10 ; Isaiah 8:10 ; 29:20 1 Corinthians 1:28 ; 2:6 Revelation 18:17