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 Bethel.
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Gill's Exposition
Seek the Lord, and ye shall live,.... This is, repeated to stir up unto it, because of their backwardness and slothfulness, and to show the importance and necessity of it. By the "Lord" may be meant…
Barnes' Notes
Seek ye the Lord and ye shall live - Literally, “seek the Lord and live;” being united to Him, the Fountain of life. He reimpresses on them the one simple need of the creature, “seek God,” the one…
Adam Clarke
Seek the Lord, and ye shall live - Repeated from Amo 5:4.
In the house of Joseph - The Israelites of the ten tribes, of whom Ephraim and Manasseh, sons of Joseph, were the chief.
This is a message from God to the house of Israel, in which,
I. They are told of their faults, that they might see what occasion there was for them to repent and reform, and that, when they were…
Cambridge Bible
Seek Jehovah, &c. The exhortation of Amo 5:5 is repeated, and enforced with a fresh motive lest a fire, namely, kindled by Jehovah, advance irresistibly, and spread irretrievable destruction in…
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