5:4 Come back to me and live implies a condition: In order to live, Israel should seek the Lord (also in 5:6). Otherwise, the funeral song (5:1–2) would become Israel’s death sentence. 5:5 Beersheba was another site (see note on 4:4) with ties to the patriarchal era (e.g., Abraham, Gen 21:33; 22:19) that had been made into a shrine. • Gilgal … exile: A wordplay using alliteration (Hebrew hagilgal galoh yigleh). Worship in Jerusalem (5:4–5) Deut 12:5 1 Kgs 11:36 2 Chr 6:6 Neh 1:9; 11:1 Isa 2:3; 52:1;