Amos 5:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.

Beer-sheba

Amos 8:14

Genesis 21:33

And beth-el

Hosea 10:8

Come

Revelation 18:17

Bible References

Beer-sheba

“As for those who swear by the

guilt of Samaria,

Who say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’
And, ‘As the way of Beersheba lives,’
They will fall and not rise again.”

Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.

And beth-el

Therefore, thus says the Lord, ‘Your wife will become a harlot in the city, your sons and your daughters will fall by the sword, your land will be parceled up by a measuring line and you yourself will die upon unclean soil. Moreover, Israel will certainly go from its land into exile.’”

I then will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and heap your remains on the remains of your idols, for My soul shall abhor you.

You shall have sons and daughters but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.

Though you, Israel, play the harlot,
Do not let Judah become guilty;
Also do not go to Gilgal,
Or go up to Beth-aven

And take the oath:

“As the Lord lives!”

Also the high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed;

Thorn and thistle will grow on their altars;

Then they will say to the mountains,
“Cover us!” And to the hills, “Fall on us!”

Come

“Those who hate you will be clothed with shame,
And the tent of the wicked will be no longer.”

The Lord

nullifies the counsel of the nations;

He frustrates the plans of the peoples.

“Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted;
State a proposal, but it will not stand,
For

God is with us.”

For the ruthless will come to an end and the scorner will be finished,
Indeed all who are intent on doing evil will be cut off;

and the base things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are,

Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature; a wisdom, however, not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away;

for in one hour such great wealth has been laid waste!’ And every shipmaster and every passenger and sailor, and as many as make their living by the sea, stood at a distance,