Amos 5:6

Modern English Version

Seek the Lord and live, or He will break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it will devour Bethel, with no one to quench it.

Cross References

2 Samuel 19:20

For your servant knows that I have sinned. Therefore, behold, I have come this day, first from all of the house of Joseph, to go down to meet my lord the king.”

1 Kings 11:28

Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor, and when Solomon saw that the young man was industrious, he made him ruler over all the labor force of the house of Joseph.

2 Chronicles 34:25

Because they have abandoned Me and offered sacrifices to other gods in order to provoke Me with everything they have made with their hands, so My rage will be poured out on this place, and it will not be quenched.

Psalm 27:8

When You said, “Seek My face,” my heart said to You, “Your face, Lord, will I seek.”

Psalm 69:33

For the Lord hears the poor, and does not despise His prisoners.

Exodus 22:6

If fire breaks out and catches in thorn bushes, so that stacked grain or the standing grain or the field are consumed, then he who started the fire must surely make restitution.

Isaiah 1:31

The strong shall be as tinder, and his work like a spark; they will both burn together, and no one will quench them.

Isaiah 55:3

Incline your ear, and come to Me. Listen, so that your soul may live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

Isaiah 55:6

Seek the Lord while He may be found, call you upon Him while He is near.

Jeremiah 38:20

But Jeremiah said, “They will not deliver you. Please obey the voice of the Lord which I speak to you, so it will be well with you and your soul will live.

Jeremiah 4:4

Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, lest My fury come forth like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.

Jeremiah 7:20

Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out upon this place, upon man and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

Ezekiel 21:3

and say to the land of Israel, Thus says the Lord: Behold, I am against you, and will draw My sword from its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.

Ezekiel 33:11

Say to them: As I live, says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, O house of Israel?

Ezekiel 37:19

say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his companions, and will put them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick; and they shall be one in My hand.

Amos 3:14

Surely on the day I punish the transgressions of Israel, I will also punish the altars of Bethel; the horns of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground.

Amos 5:14

Seek good and not evil, so that you may live; then the Lord, the God of Hosts, will truly be with you, as you claim.

Amos 5:4

Indeed, thus says the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek Me and live!

Amos 6:6

who drink from bowls of wine and anoint themselves with the finest oils, but are not grieved over the destruction of Joseph.

Zephaniah 2:3

Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land, who carry out His judgment. Seek righteousness, seek humility. Perhaps you will be hidden on the day of the Lord’s anger.

Zechariah 10:6

I will make strong the house of Judah, and will deliver the house of Joseph. I will restore them because I have compassion on them. They will be like I had never rejected them; for I am the Lord their God, and I will respond to them.

Deuteronomy 32:22

For a fire has been inflamed by My anger, and it will burn to the lowest part of Sheol, and shall consume the earth and its produce, and ignite the foundations of the mountains.

Deuteronomy 4:24

For the Lord your God is a consuming fire. He is a jealous God.

Joshua 18:5

They shall divide it into seven portions. Judah will stay in their territory in the south, and the house of Joseph will stay in their territory in the north.