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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Amos 5:5 - 5:5
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seek not Beth-el - that is, the calves at Beth-el.
Gilgal - (See on Amo 4:4).
Beer-sheba - in Judah on the southern frontier towards Edom. Once “the well of the oath” by Jehovah, ratifying Abraham’s covenant with Abimelech, and the scene of his calling on “the Lord, the everlasting God” (Gen 21:31, Gen 21:33), now a stronghold of idolatry (Amo 8:14).
Gilgal shall surely go into captivity - a play on similar sounds in the Hebrew, Gilgal, galoh, yigleh: “Gilgal (the place of rolling) shall rolling be rolled away.”
Beth-el shall come to naught - Beth-el (that is, the “house of God”), called because of its vain idols Beth-aven (that is, “the house of vanity,” or “naught,” Hos 4:15; Hos 10:5, Hos 10:8), shall indeed “come to naught.”