Amos 5:4 Cross References - NSB

⁴ Jehovah said to the house of Israel: »Seek me and you will live!

¹ »All these blessings and curses I have spoken about will happen to you. Take them to heart when you are among all the nations where Jehovah your God will scatter you. ² »If you and your children return to Jehovah your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your being, doing everything I command you today, ³ he will restore your fortunes. He will have mercy on you and gather you from all the nations of the world where he has scattered you. ⁴ »Jehovah your God will gather you from the ends of the earth. He will bring you back. ⁵ »Jehovah your God will bring you into the land your fathers possessed. You will possess it. He will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers. ⁶ »Jehovah your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, to LOVE JEHOVAH YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART AND WITH ALL YOUR BEING, that you may live. ⁷ »Jehovah your God will inflict all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you and who persecute you. ⁸ »You shall again obey Jehovah, and observe all his commandments that I command you today.

⁹ »You my son Solomon, learn to know your father’s God. Serve Jehovah wholeheartedly and willingly because he searches every heart and understands every thought we have. If you dedicate your life to serving him, he will accept you. On the other hand if you abandon him, he will reject you from then on.

² Azariah went to Asa and said: »Listen to me Asa and all you men from Judah and Benjamin. Jehovah is with you when you are with him. If you will dedicate your lives to serve him, he will accept you. But if you abandon him, he will abandon you.

³ Jehoshaphat was frightened and decided to ask for Jehovah’s help. He announced a fast throughout Judah.

³ It was the eighth year of his reign. He was still a boy when he dedicated his life to service of the God of his ancestor David. In his twelfth year as king he purged Judah and Jerusalem by destroying the illegal places of worship, poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah, carved idols, and metal idols.

² Jehovah looks down from heaven on the sons of men to see if there is anyone who acts wisely, if there is anyone who seeks help from God.

⁸ You said: »Seek my face (look for me) (my presence).« My heart said to you, »O Jehovah, I will look for you.«

²⁶ Humble (meek) people will eat until they are full. Those who look to Jehovah will praise him. May your heart live forever.

³² The humble have seen it and are glad. And you, who seek after God, let your heart live.

³ Praise his holy name! Let the heart of those rejoice who seek Jehovah. ⁴ Seek Jehovah and seek his strength. Seek his presence constantly!

³ Give ear and come to me; listen to me, that you may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David.

⁶ Seek Jehovah while he may be found. Call on him while he is near. ⁷ Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to Jehovah, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.

¹² ‘Then you will call to me. You will come and pray to me and I will hear you. ¹³ ‘When you look for me, you will find me. When you wholeheartedly seek me,

²⁵ Jehovah is good to those who are waiting for him, to the person seeking him. ²⁶ It is good to go on hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of Jehovah.

⁶ »Seek Jehovah, and you will live. Lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it will devour, and there will be none to quench it in Bethel.

³ Seek Jehovah all you meek ones of the earth, you who have obeyed his Law! Seek righteousness! Seek meekness that you may be hidden in the Day of Jehovah's anger. (Hebrew: ulay-ulay, may-be; Septuagint: »you may be hid.«) (Hebrew: sathar: concealed, hidden, protected) (Zephaniah 1:2) (Amos 5:15)

⁸ »Everyone who asks receives. Everyone who seeks finds, and everyone who knocks will have it opened.