Amos 5:6

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“Seek the Lord [search diligently for Him and long for Him as your most essential need] so that you may live,
Or He will rush down like a [devouring] fire, O ^[a]house of Joseph,
And there will be no one to quench the flame for [idolatrous] ^[b]Bethel,

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Footnotes

Amos 5:6 A reference to the ten tribes of Israel, the Northern Kingdom. The leading tribe in the north was Ephraim (descendants of Joseph’s second son).
Amos 5:6 The center of pagan worship in the Northern Kingdom.

Amos 5:6 in all English translations