Amos 5:6 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁶ 4 Seek ye good, and not evil, that you may live: and the Lord the God of hosts will be with you, as you have said.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Beth-el.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Seek the Lord [inquire for and of Him and require Him] and you shall live, lest He rush down like fire upon the house of Joseph [representing the ten tribes] and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel [the center of their idol hopes].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ Seek Jehovah, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be none to quench it in Beth-el.

Common English Bible

⁶ Seek the LORD and live, or else God might rush like a fire against the house of Joseph. The fire will burn up Bethel, with no one to put it out.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ Seek the Lord and live. Otherwise, the house of Joseph may be destroyed with fire, and it will devour, and there will be no one who can extinguish Bethel.

Amos 5:6 Cross References

2 Samuel 19:20

5 And when he met the king at Jerusalem, the king said to him: Why camest thou not with me, Miphiboseth?

1 Kings 11:28

3 Because he hath forsaken me, and hath adored Astarthe the goddess of the Sidonians, and Chamos the god of Moab, and Moloch the god of the children of Ammon: and hath not walked in my ways, to do justice before me, and to keep my precepts, and judgments as did David his father.

2 Chronicles 34:25

0 And went up to the house of the Lord, and all the men of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests and the Levites, and all the people from the least to the greatest. And the king read in their hearing, in the house of the Lord, all the words of the book.

Psalm 27:8

A psalm for David himself. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord: O my God, be not thou silent to me: lest thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

Psalm 69:33

Let all that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee; and let such as love thy salvation say always: The Lord be magnified.

Exodus 22:6

To do any fraud, either in ox, or in ass, or sheep, or raiment, or any thing that may bring damage: the cause of both parties shall come to the gods: and if they give judgment, he shall restore double to his neighbour.

Isaiah 1:31

And their land is filled with horses: and their chariots are innumerable. Their land also is full of idols: they have adored the work of their own hands, which their own fingers have made.

Isaiah 55:3

1 So shall my word be, which shall go forth from my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall do whatsoever I please, and shall prosper in the things for which I sent it.

Isaiah 55:6

THUS saith the Lord : Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my justice to be revealed.

Jeremiah 38:20

8 But Jeremias remained in the entry of the prison, until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and it came to pass that Jerusalem was taken.

Jeremiah 4:4

2 A full wind from these places shall come to me: and now I will speak my judgments with them.

Jeremiah 7:20

8 And thou shalt say to them: This is a nation which hath not hearkened to the voice of the Lord their God, nor received instruction: Faith is lost, and is carried away out of their mouth.

Ezekiel 21:3

1 And I have given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, that it may be in the hand of the slayer.

Ezekiel 33:11

9 And when the wicked shall depart from his wickedness, and shall do judgments, and justice: be shall live in them.

Ezekiel 37:19

7 And my tabernacle shall be with them: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Amos 3:14

I also have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon: and the piece whereupon I rained not, withered.

Amos 5:14

2 And if you offer me holocausts, and your gifts, I will not receive them: neither will I regard the vows of your fat beasts.

Amos 5:4

2 Because I know your manifold crimes, and your grievous sine: enemies of the just, taking bribes, and oppressing the poor in the gate.

Amos 6:6

4 But behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel, saith the Lord the God of hosts; and they shall destroy you from the entrance of Emath, even to the torrent of the desert.

Zephaniah 2:3

1 The Lord shall be terrible upon them, and shall consume all the gods of the earth: and they shall adore him every man from his own place, all the islands of the Gentiles.

Zechariah 10:6

Howl, thou fir tree, for the cedar is fallen, for the mighty are laid waste: howl, ye oaks of Basan, because the fenced forest is cut down.

Deuteronomy 32:22

7 But for the wrath of the enemies I have deferred it: lest perhaps their enemies might be proud, and should say: Our mighty hand, and not the Lord, hath done all these things.

Deuteronomy 4:24

9 And when thou shalt seek there the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him: yet so, if thou seek him with all thy heart, and all the affliction of thy soul.

Joshua 18:5

0 And he cast lots before the Lord in Silo, and divided the land to the children of Israel into seven parts.