Cross references

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

Amos 5:6 has 19 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Isaiah 55:6 (4 votes) and Ezekiel 20:47–48 (4 votes). 21 other verses point back to it. It links with 19 other books, from Genesis 48 to Acts 8.

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Which verses does Amos 5:6 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.

  2. Say to the forest of the Negev: Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the Lord GOD says: I am about to ignite in you a fire, and it will devour all your trees, both green and dry. The blazing flame will not be quenched, and by it every face from south to north will be scorched. Then all people will see that I, the LORD, have kindled it; it will not be quenched.”

  3. Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’

  4. When Israel saw the sons of Joseph, he asked, “Who are these?” Joseph said to his father, “They are the sons God has given me in this place.” So Jacob said, “Please bring them to me, that I may bless them.” …

  5. Amos 5:43 votes

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

  6. Amos 5:143 votes

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

  7. I will strengthen the house of Judah and save the house of Joseph. I will restore them because I have compassion on them, and they will be as though I had not rejected them. For I am the LORD their God, and I will answer them.

  8. If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire. …

  9. If a fire breaks out and spreads to thornbushes so that it consumes stacked or standing grain, or the whole field, the one who started the fire must make full restitution.

  10. For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

  11. Amos 6:62 votes

Which verses point to Amos 5:6?

The 10 strongest of 21.