Amos 5:22
Wherefore if ye should bring me your whole burnt sacrifices and meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I have respect to your grand peace offerings.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
21I hate, I reject your feasts, and I will not smell your meat offerings in your general assemblies.
23Remove from me the sound of thy songs, and I will not hear the music of thine instruments.
Cross References
1 Samuel 15:22And Samuel said, Does the Lord take pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in hearing the words of the Lord? behold, obedience is better than a good sacrifice, and hearkening than the fat of rams.
Proverbs 21:27The sacrifices of the ungodly are abomination to the Lord, 1 For they offer them wickedly. 1
Amos 4:4Ye went into Bethel, and sinned, and ye multiplied sin at Gilgal; and ye brought your meat offerings in the morning, and your tithes every third day.
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 →