Amos 5:4
What meaning of the amos 5:4 in the Bible?
What does Amos 5:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:"
What does Amos 5:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:"
Verse Amos 5:4. _SEEK YE ME, AND YE SHALL LIVE_] Cease your rebellion against me; return to me with all your heart; and though consigned to _death_, ye shall be rescued and live. Deplorable as your ca...
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...
CHAPTER 5 The Third Discourse _ 1. The lamentation (Amos 5:1) _ 2. Seek the Lord and ye shall live (Amos 5:4) 3. The wailing (Amos 5:16) 4. The captivity announced (Amos 5:21) Amos 5:1. This chap...
THE IMPENDING PUNISHMENT. The prophet gives his next few words the form of a dirge (_kî nah_,_ Amos 5:1_). This (Amos 5:2) is characterised by the peculiar _kî nah-metre_, consisting of three beats or...
THUS SAITH. Note the prophetic formula (see App-82), introducing the exhortation, and emphasising it. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. SEEK YE ME, &c. Note this word "seek" in the several exhort...
Proof that Israel merits the fate which has just been pronounced against it: it has sought Jehovah by a ritual which He does not value, and it has spurned the virtues which He really prizes. _Seek ye...
_SEEK HIM THAT MADE THE STARS -- AMOS 5:1-9:_ Amos brought a mournful message from God to the house of Israel. He called upon them to listen to God's word. God is grieved over their wrongs and his des...
REVELATION CALLS FOR REPENTANCEGOD'S WORD AGAINST ISRAEL TEXT: Amos 5:1-5 1 Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel. 2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she...
For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live: SEEK YE ME, AND YE SHALL LIVE - literally, "Seek ye me, and live." The second imperative expresses the certainty of...
THE THIRD ADDRESS 1-6. A lament, a warning, and an invitation. 7, 10-20. Denunciation of injustice and oppression, with threats of pestilence and judgment. 21-27. A repudiation of their attempt to...
THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 5 GOD ENCOURAGES ISRAEL’S PEOPLE TO COME BACK TO HIM V1 People in Israel, listen to this song. ‘This funeral song is ab...
SEEK... LIVE. — Search after God is rewarded by finding Him, and this is life in the highest sense....
כִּ֣י כֹ֥ה אָמַ֛ר יְהוָ֖ה לְ בֵ֣ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל דִּרְשׁ֖וּנִי וִֽ חְיֽוּ׃...
2. FOR WORSHIP, JUSTICE Amos 5:1 In the next of these groups of oracles Amos continues his attack on the national ritual, and now contrasts it with the service of God in public life-the relief of th...
“PREPARE TO MEET THY GOD” Amos 4:12-13; Amos 5:1-15 Worse judgments than those mentioned in the previous verses were in store but before they are inflicted, the entire nation is summoned to the divi...
The third discourse was a description of Jehovah's judgment. This opened with a lamentation for the virgin of Israel, "The virgin of Israel is fallen, she shall no more rise, she is cast down upon her...
The first verse in this paragraph is a confirmation, if it were needed, of what I advanced in my observations on the former. Seeking the Lord, implies the hope of finding him, and indeed the promise i...
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. "The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the...
Amos here again exhorts the Israelites to repentance; and it was an address common to all, though the greater part, as we have said, were altogether past recovery; but it was necessary, as long as the...
After having deplored the ruin of Israel, He contrasts the places of their false worship with Jehovah, the Creator, and exhorts them to come unto Him and live. But Israel put off the thought of the ev...
FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD UNTO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL,.... Or "yet" a, notwithstanding all this, though such judgments were threatened and denounced, and such desolations should certainly come, in case of...
For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live: Ver. 4. _For thus saith the Lord_] Or, truly thus saith the Lord; notwithstanding the former terrible sentence, which...
_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, tha...
ISRAEL'S ONLY SAFETY IN SEEKING THE LORD...
1-6 The convincing, awakening word must be heard and heeded, as well as words of comfort and peace; for whether we hear or forbear, the word of God shall take effect. The Lord still proclaims mercy to...
FOR, or yet, truly. THUS SAITH THE LORD; amidst all those threats there is still a reserve, a conditional proviso, and the Lord here does by his prophet declare it. UNTO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL; though ap...
Amos 5:4 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 house H1004 Israel H3478 Seek H1875 (H8798) live H2421 (H8798) Seek - Amos 5:6; Deuteronomy 30:1-8; 1 Chronicles 28:9; 2 Chronicles 15:2,...
A LAMENTATION OVER ISRAEL (AMOS 5:1). While speaking powerfully Amos had no joy in what was to happen to Israel, and having pronounced judgment on them, he now laments what must necessarily be their e...
Amos 5:4. _For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:_ And that it just the message of God to professing Christians now: «Seek ye me.» Get away from your mere ce...
CONTENTS: God's lamentation over Israel and captivity foretold. The day of the Lord. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: If men will not take a right course to obtain the favor of God, God will take an eff...
Amos 5:2. _The virgin of Israel is fallen._ Babylon, which had never been stormed by a besieging army, is called a virgin. Isaiah 47:1. Thus Israel, whose kingdom had never yet been wholly subdued, is...
_Seek ye Me, and ye shall live. .. But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal._ I. The blessings of Israel. Gilgal and Bethel were places in Israel’s history bedewed by showers of blessing. 1. Gilga...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 5:1 Although they face imminent destruction, God still pleads with his people to return to him. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.len...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 5:4. Live] Not only remain alive, but possess real favour. AMOS 5:5. BETHEL] “A strong dissuasive from idolatry derived from the predicted fall of the objects and places of fa...
EXPOSITION VERSE 1-CH. 6:14 § 8. _Third address_:_ the prophet utters a lamentation over the fall of Israel_. (Amos 6:1.) He calls her to repentance, while he shows wherein she has declined from the...
Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation (Amos 5:1), Weeping over the house of Israel now. The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her l...
1 Chronicles 28:9; 2 Chronicles 15:2; 2 Chronicles 20:3; 2 Chronicles 34:3; Amos 5:6; Deuteronomy 30:1; Isaiah 55:3; Isaiah 55:6; Isaiah 55:7;...
Ye shall live — It shall be well with you....