Amos 5:25
Was it you who offered victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, house of Israel?
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
In Context
24And judgment will be revealed like water, and justice like a mighty torrent.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:17They immolated to demons and not to God, to gods whom they did not know, who were new and recent arrivals, whom their fathers did not worship.
Nehemiah 9:18Indeed, even when they had made for themselves a molten calf, and they had said, ‘This is your God, who led you away from Egypt!’ and had committed great blasphemies,
Isaiah 43:23You have not offered me the ram of your holocaust, and you have not glorified me with your victims. I have not burdened you with oblations, nor have I wearied you with incense.
Ezekiel 20:16For they cast aside my judgments, and they did not walk in my precepts, and they violated my Sabbaths. For their heart went after idols.
Hosea 9:9They have sinned profoundly, just as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity, and he will repay their sin.
Acts 7:42Then God turned, and he handed them over, to subservience to the armies of heaven, just as it was written in the Book of the Prophets: ‘Did you not offer victims and sacrifices to me for forty years in the desert, O house of Israel?
Matthew Henry on Amos 5:22-27
Hypocritical Services Rejected; Threatenings against Israel. ( b. c. 790.) 21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. 22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. 23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. 24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. 25 Have ye offered unto me… Read the whole commentary →