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Amos 5:6. Seek the Lord, and ye shall live — He repeats his exhortation, and also the promise of a good issue on their complying with it. Lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph — That is, the kingdom of the ten tribes, the chief whereof was Ephraim the son of Joseph.
Bethel, as the chief place of worship in Israel, is mentioned here for the kingdom itself, which is called the "house of Joseph," from Joseph the father of Ephraim, the most powerful tribe in that kingdom.
"Seek Jehovah, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be none to quench it in Bethel." The house of Joseph" here means the Northern Kingdom, of which the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh (the sons of Joseph) constituted the most powerful component of the kingdom. This led to the "House of ...
Seek ye the Lord, and ye shall live; lest the house of Joseph blaze as fire, and it devour him, and there shall be none to quench it for the house of Israel. Contemporary English Version. Turn back to the LORD, you descendants of Joseph, and you will live. If you don't, the LORD will attack like fire.
Verse 18 tells us, "The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame." "The house of Jacob" may refer particularly to Judah, and "the house of Joseph" would then refer to the rest of the nations of Israel, led by the Joseph tribes, Ephraim and Manasseh.
The House of Joseph (or simply, Joseph) is the term for the collective descendants of Joseph, the two tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh. In the vast majority of places in the Bible, Ephraim and Manasseh are considered their own seperate tribes; inconsistent with the other tribes which are each...
Amos 5:6. ESV Seek the Lord and live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, with none to quench it for Bethel, NIV Seek the Lord and live, or he will sweep through the tribes of Joseph like a fire; it will devour them, and Bethel will have no one to quench it.