Amos 5:5 Cross References - NSB

⁵ »Do not seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal. Do not pass to Beersheba. For Gilgal will surely go into captivity (exile), and Bethel will come to nothing.

³³ Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beer-sheba. There he called on the name of Jehovah, the Everlasting God.

³⁰ »‘I will destroy your worship sites. I will cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies on top of your dead idols. I will view you with disgust. ³¹ »‘I will make your cities deserted and ruin your sacred places. I will no longer accept the soothing aroma from your sacrifices. ³² »‘I will make your land so deserted that your enemies will be shocked as they settle in it.

⁴¹ »Even your infant sons and daughters will be taken as prisoners of war.

¹⁶ Every year he went around to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah in order to judge Israel in all those places.

¹⁴ Then Samuel said to the people: »Come to Gilgal. Let us make the kingdom strong in the hands of Saul.«

²² »Your enemies will be clothed in shame. The tents of the wicked will be no more.«

¹⁰ Jehovah nullifies the counsel of the nations. He frustrates the plans of the peoples.

¹⁰ Make plans for battle, but they will never succeed. Give orders, but they will not be carried out, because God is with us!

²⁰ All who are cruel and arrogant will be extinguished. Those who live by crime will be removed.

¹⁵ Though you, Israel, play the harlot, do not let Judah become guilty! Do not go to Gilgal, neither go to Bethaven, nor swear, »As Jehovah lives.«

¹⁵ »All Ephraim's wickedness began in Gilgal. I hated the people there. I will force them out of my Temple because of their wickedness. I will not love them anymore. All their officials are rebellious.

⁸ »The hilltop shrines of Bethaven, where the people of Israel worship idols, will be destroyed. Thorns and weeds will grow up over their altars. The people will call out to the mountains: ‘Hide us! And to the hills, cover us!’

¹⁴ Tumult will come to your people and all your fortresses will be destroyed. It will be like the day when King Shalman destroyed the city of Betharbel (house of Arbel) in battle and mothers and their children were crushed to death. ¹⁵ »That is what will happen to you, people of Bethel, because of the terrible evil that you have done. As soon as the battle begins, the king of Israel will die.«

⁴ »Come to Bethel and transgress! Come to Gilgal and multiply transgression! Bring your sacrifices every morning and your tithes every three days.

¹⁷ Jehovah proclaims: »Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be divided by measuring line. You will die in a land that is unclean. Israel will surely be led away captive out of his land.«

¹⁴ »They who swear by the sin of Samaria. They will say: ‘As your god lives, O Dan, the way Beersheba lives.’ They will fall and never rise up again.«

¹¹ »The people of Gilead are evil. They are worthless. They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal. But their altars will become like piles of rubble beside a plowed field.

²⁸ God also chose the base things of the world, and things which are despised, yes, and things which are not, to bring to nothing things that are.

⁶ How is it we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, or of the rulers of this age, who come to nothing (are doomed to destruction)?

¹⁷ »'In one hour these great riches came to nothing.' Every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood far off,