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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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REVELATION CALLS FOR REPENTANCEGOD'S WORD AGAINST ISRAEL
TEXT: Amos 5:1-5
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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SEEK... LIVE. — Search after God is rewarded by finding Him, and
this is life in the highest sense....
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כִּ֣י כֹ֥ה אָמַ֛ר יְהוָ֖ה לְ בֵ֣ית
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑
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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 the...
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“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 divin...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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ISRAEL'S ONLY SAFETY IN SEEKING THE LORD...
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For thus saith the Lord unto the house of Israel, in a last attempt to
save its people from themselves, SEEK YE ME, in sincere worship of the
one true God, and ye shall live;...
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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 t...
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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...
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Amos 5:4 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 house H1004 Israel H3478 Seek
H1875 (H8798) live H2421 ...
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THE CALL TO REPENTANCE AND REJECTION OF THE FALSE SANCTUARIES (AMOS
5:4).
YHWH therefore calls Israel to repentance before it is too late. If
only they will repent and truly seek Him they will live, a...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 5:1 Although they face imminent destruction, God
still pleads with his people to return to him.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Chronicles 28:9; 2 Chronicles 15:2; 2 Chronicles 20:3; 2 Chronicles
34:3;...
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Ye shall live — It shall be well with you....