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Text -- Amos 5:1-7 (NET)
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Death is Imminent
5:1 Listen to this funeral song I am ready to sing about you, family of Israel :
5:2 “The virgin Israel has fallen down and will not get up again . She is abandoned on her own land with no one to help her get up .”
5:3 The sovereign Lord says this : “The city that marches out with a thousand soldiers will have only a hundred left ; the town that marches out with a hundred soldiers will have only ten left for the family of Israel .”
5:4 The Lord says this to the family of Israel : “Seek me so you can live !
5:5 Do not seek Bethel ! Do not visit Gilgal ! Do not journey down to Beer Sheba ! For the people of Gilgal will certainly be carried into exile ; and Bethel will become a place where disaster abounds .”
5:6 Seek the Lord so you can live ! Otherwise he will break out like fire against Joseph’s family ; the fire will consume and no one will be able to quench it and save Bethel .
5:7 The Israelites turn justice into bitterness ; they throw what is fair and right to the ground .
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NET Notes: Amo 5:3 Heb “for/to the house of Israel.” The translation assumes that this is a graphic picture of what is left over for the defense of the natio...
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NET Notes: Amo 5:4 The following verses explain what it meant to seek the Lord. Israel was to abandon the mere formalism and distorted view of God and reality that chara...
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NET Notes: Amo 5:5 Again there is irony. The name Bethel means “house of God” in Hebrew. How surprising and tragic that Bethel, the “house of God”...
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NET Notes: Amo 5:6 Heb “to/for Bethel.” The translation assumes that the preposition indicates advantage, “on behalf of.” Another option is to ta...
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