Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Amos 5:8, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Amos 4:13
For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and tread…
- Job 9:9
Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
- Amos 9:6
It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them…
- Psalms 104:20
Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
- Amos 8:9
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
- Job 38:31
Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
- Job 12:22
He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
- Exodus 10:21
And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt…
- Psalms 104:6
Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
- Psalms 107:10
Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
- Psalms 105:28
He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.
- Job 38:12
Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
More to meet God in Amos
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.