Amos 5:25
Did ye offer unto Me zevakhim and minchah in the midbar arba'im shanah, O Bais Yisroel?
Orthodox Jewish 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
24But let mishpat run down as mayim, 1 and tzedakah as a never failing stream.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:17They sacrificed unto shedim (demons), not to G-d; 1 to elohim whom they knew not, 1 to chadashim (new g-ds), new arrivals, 1 whom Avoteichem feared not. 1
Nehemiah 9:18Yea, when they had made them an egel massekhah, and said, This is Eloheicha that brought thee up out of Mitzrayim, or when they committed ne'atzot gedolot (great blasphemies);
Isaiah 43:23Thou hast not brought Me the seh (lamb) of thy olot; 1 neither hast thou honored Me with thy zevakhim. 1 I have not caused thee to serve with a minchah, 1 nor wearied thee with levonah (incense, frankincense). 1
Ezekiel 20:16Because they despised My mishpatim, and walked not in My chukkot, but profaned My Shabbatot; for their lev went after their gillulim (idols).
Hosea 9:9They have deeply corrupted themselves, 1 as in the yamim of Giv'ah; 1 therefore He will remember their iniquity, 1 He will visit their sins. 1
Acts 7:42But Hashem turned away and handed them over to serve the tzeva Shomayim, just as it has been written in the sefer haNevi'im, HAZEVACHIM UMINCHAH HIGASHTEM LI BAMIDBAR ARBA'IM SHANAH, BET YISROEL (It was not to me that you offered victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, O House of Israel?) + 7:42 Am 5:25-27; Josh 24:20; Isa 63:10; Jer 19:13
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 →