Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 5

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Amos 5 . 1 , A lamentation for Israel; Amos 5 . 4 , An exhortation to repentance; Amos 5 . 21 , God rejects their hypocritical service.

Amos 5:1

Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:

Amos 5:1 · BSB

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I take14 parallels

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Amos 5:2

“Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.”

Amos 5:2 · BSB

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is fallen4 parallels

she shall4 parallels

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none10 parallels

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Amos 5:3

This is what the Lord GOD says: “The city that marches out a thousand strong will only see a hundred return, and the one that marches out a hundred strong will have but ten left in the house of Israel.”

Amos 5:3 · BSB

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Amos 5:4

For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!

Amos 5:4 · BSB

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Amos 5:5

Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.

Amos 5:5 · BSB

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and Bethel6 parallels

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Gilgal There is a paronomasia here , both on the letters and words . hag gilgal galoh yigleh oovaith el yiheyeh leawen "Gilgal shall surely go into captivity , and Beth-el (the house of God) shall come to nought ," or Aven , i.e. , Beth-aven , the house of iniquity.

Amos 5:6

Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.

Amos 5:6 · BSB

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the house9 parallels

there6 parallels

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Amos 5:7

There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.

Amos 5:7 · BSB

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Amos 5:8

He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth—the LORD is His name—

Amos 5:8 · BSB

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and turneth6 parallels

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that calleth6 parallels

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Amos 5:9

He flashes destruction on the strong, so that fury comes upon the stronghold.

Amos 5:9 · BSB

strengtheneth4 parallels

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spoiled Heb. spoil

Amos 5:10

There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.

Amos 5:10 · BSB

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abhor4 parallels

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Amos 5:11

Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.

Amos 5:11 · BSB

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ye have built8 parallels

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pleasant vineyards Heb. vineyards of desire

Amos 5:12

For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.

Amos 5:12 · BSB

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manifold2 parallels

they afflict8 parallels

take7 parallels

and they5 parallels

in the6 parallels

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bribe or , ransom

Amos 5:13

Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times, for the days are evil.

Amos 5:13 · BSB

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an evil10 parallels

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Amos 5:14

Seek good, not evil, so that you may live. And the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be with you, as you have claimed.

Amos 5:14 · BSB

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and so15 parallels

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Amos 5:15

Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph."

Amos 5:15 · BSB

Hate15 parallels

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it may6 parallels

the remnant10 parallels

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Amos 5:16

Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.

Amos 5:16 · BSB

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Amos 5:17

There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,” says the LORD.

Amos 5:17 · BSB

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Amos 5:18

Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.

Amos 5:18 · BSB

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the day of the Lord is14 parallels

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Amos 5:19

It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake.

Amos 5:19 · BSB

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They should go from one evil to another

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Amos 5:20

Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it?

Amos 5:20 · BSB

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Amos 5:21

“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.

Amos 5:21 · BSB

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I will4 parallels

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smell in your solemn assemblies or , smell your holy days

Amos 5:22

Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.

Amos 5:22 · BSB

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peace offerings8 parallels

or , thank offerings

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Amos 5:23

Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.

Amos 5:23 · BSB

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Amos 5:24

But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

Amos 5:24 · BSB

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run Heb. roll

Amos 5:25

Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

Amos 5:25 · BSB

the whole verse15 parallels

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Amos 5:26

You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.

Amos 5:26 · BSB

the tabernacle of your Moloch5 parallels

or , Siccuth your king

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Amos 5:27

Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.

Amos 5:27 · BSB

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge is the classical cross-reference layer — centuries of catchword parallels beneath the site’s quotations, allusions, and echoes. Every reference above also flows into the wider web of connections.

In the wider web14 threads
Intertextuality Pairs
Allusions Luke 12:35-46 → Amos 5:18, Romans 12:9 → Amos 5:15, Amos 5:10 → Deuteronomy 16:18, Amos 5:10 → Deuteronomy 16:18-19, Amos 5:12 → Deuteronomy 16:18, Amos 5:12 → Deuteronomy 16:18-19
Echoes Luke 11:42 → Amos 5:15, Acts 17:27 → Amos 5:4
Trajectories
Bethel (House of God)
Longitudinal Themes
Holiness, Justice and Mercy
Chiasms
Shaped Amos 5:12–15, Amos 5:23–6:5, Amos 5:4–6
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