Amos 5:6

6“Seek the Lord [search diligently for Him and long for Him as your most essential need] so that you may live,

Or He will rush down like a [devouring] fire, O 5:6 A reference to the ten tribes of Israel, the Northern Kingdom. The leading tribe in the north was Ephraim (descendants of Joseph’s second son).house of Joseph,

And there will be no one to quench the flame for [idolatrous] 5:6 The center of pagan worship in the Northern Kingdom.Bethel,