Internet Verse Search Commentaries Word Analysis ITL - draft

Amos 5:4

Context
NETBible

The Lord says this to the family 1  of Israel: “Seek me 2  so you can live!

XREF

De 30:1-8; 1Ch 28:9; 2Ch 15:2; 2Ch 20:3; 2Ch 34:3; Ps 14:2; Ps 22:26; Ps 27:8; Ps 69:32; Ps 105:3,4; Isa 55:3; Isa 55:6,7; Jer 29:12,13; La 3:25,26; Am 5:6; Zep 2:3; Mt 7:8

NET © Notes

tn Heb “house.”

sn 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 characterized religious activity at the worship sites, as well as the social injustice that permeated Israelite society. Instead the people were to repent and promote justice in the land. This call to seek the Lord echoes the challenge in 4:13 to prepare to meet him as he truly is.



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