Amos 5:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ but do not seek Bethel, and do not enter into Gilgal or cross over to Beer-sheba, for Gilgal shall surely go into exile, and Bethel shall come to nothing.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ but seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to nought.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ But seek not [the golden calf at] Bethel nor enter into [idolatrous] Gilgal, and pass not over to [the idols of] Beersheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity and exile, and Bethel [house of God] shall become Beth-aven [house of vanity, emptiness, falsity, and futility] and come to nothing.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ but seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to nought.

Common English Bible

⁵ But don’t seek Bethel, don’t enter into Gilgal, or cross over to Beer-sheba; for Gilgal will go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ But do not be willing to seek Bethel, and do not be willing to enter Gilgal, and you will not cross into Beer-sheba. For Gilgal will be led into captivity, and Bethel will be useless.

Amos 5:5 Cross References

Hosea 4:15

Though you prostitute yourself, O Israel, do not let Judah become guilty. Do not enter into Gilgal or go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear, “As the Lord lives.”

Amos 8:14

Those who swear by Ashimah of Samaria and say, “As your god lives, O Dan,” and, “As the way of Beer-sheba lives”— they shall fall and never rise again.

Amos 4:4

Come to Bethel—and transgress; to Gilgal—and multiply transgression; bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days;

Genesis 21:33

Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba and there called on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.

Revelation 18:17

For in one hour all this wealth has been laid waste!” And all shipmasters and seafarers, sailors and all whose trade is on the sea, stood far off

1 Corinthians 2:6

Yet among the mature we do speak wisdom, though it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are being destroyed.

1 Corinthians 1:28

God chose what is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to abolish things that are,

Amos 7:17

Therefore thus says the Lord: Your wife shall become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be parceled out by line; you yourself shall die in an unclean land, and Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.”

Hosea 12:11

In Gilead there is iniquity; they shall surely come to nothing. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls, so their altars shall be like stone heaps on the furrows of the field.

Hosea 10:8

The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed. Thorn and thistle shall grow up on their altars. They shall say to the mountains, “Cover us,” and to the hills, “Fall on us.”

Hosea 9:15

Every evil of theirs began at Gilgal; there I came to hate them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house. I will love them no more; all their officials are rebels.

Isaiah 29:20

For the tyrant shall be no more, and the scoffer shall cease to be; all those alert to do evil shall be cut off—

Isaiah 8:10

Take counsel together, but it shall be brought to naught; speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us.”

Psalm 33:10

The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.

Job 8:22

Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”

1 Samuel 11:14

Samuel said to the people, “Come, let us go to Gilgal and there renew the kingship.”

1 Samuel 7:16

He went on a circuit year by year to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah, and he judged Israel in all these places.

Deuteronomy 28:41

You shall have sons and daughters, but they shall not remain yours, for they shall go into captivity.

Genesis 21:31

Therefore that place was called Beer-sheba, because there both of them swore an oath.

1 Samuel 8:2

The name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second was Abijah; they were judges in Beer-sheba.

1 Kings 12:28

So the king took counsel and made two calves of gold. He said to the people, “You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. Here are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”

1 Kings 12:29

He set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.

Amos 3:14

On the day I punish Israel for its transgressions, I will punish the altars of Bethel, and the horns of the altar shall be cut off and fall to the ground.

Amos 7:10

Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent to King Jeroboam of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the very center of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words.

Amos 7:13

but never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom.”

Genesis 26:23

From there he went up to Beer-sheba.

Genesis 26:33

He called it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba to this day.

Joshua 5:9

The Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away from you the disgrace of Egypt.” And so that place is called Gilgal to this day.

2 Kings 23:8

He brought all the priests out of the towns of Judah and defiled the high places where the priests had made offerings, from Geba to Beer-sheba; he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on the left at the gate of the city.

Jeremiah 48:13

Then Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.

Amos 1:5

I will break the gate bars of Damascus and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven and the one who holds the scepter from Beth-eden, and the people of Aram shall go into exile to Kir, says the Lord.

Amos 7:9

the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste, and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”