Amos 5:5

"For the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will live;"

Key Reflection

This verse emphasizes that true life comes through seeking the Lord. By turning to God and following His guidance, the people of Israel would find salvation and purpose, contrasting with the superficial religious practices they were engaging in at the time.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

But (and) seek not Bethel -Israel pretended to seek God in Bethel. Amos sets the two seeking, as incompatible. The god, worshiped at Bethel, was not the One God. To seek God there was to lose Him. “Seek not God,” he would say, “and a phantom, which will lead from God.” And pass not to Beersheba -Jeroboam I pretended that it was too much for Israel to go up to Jerusalem. And Yet Israel thought it not too much to go to the extremest point of Judah toward Idumaea , perhaps, four times as far south of Jerusalem, as Jerusalem lay from Bethel.

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