Amos 5:25
Did ye offer me sacrifices and offerings In the wilderness, for forty years, O house of Israel?
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
In Context
24Let justice flow forth as waters, And righteousness as a mighty stream!
Cross References
Isaiah 43:23Thou hast not brought me thy lambs for a burnt-offering, Nor honored me with thy sacrifices; I have not burdened thee with oblations, Nor wearied thee with incense;
Ezekiel 20:16because they despised my laws, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.
Hosea 9:9They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their iniquity; He will requite their sins.
Acts 7:42But God turned away, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the Prophets, “Did ye offer to me slain beasts and sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness, 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 →