Amos 4:5

Offer a thanksgiving sacrifice with bread; 1 proclaim freewill offerings; announce them, 1 for this pleases you, 1 you people of Israel 1 —this is the declaration of the Lord Yahweh. 1

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And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

In Context

4“Go to Bethel and sin, 1 to Gilgal and multiply sin, 1 bring your sacrifices every morning, 1 your tithes every three days. 1

6I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities 1 and lack of bread in all your places. 1 Yet you have not returned to me 1 —this is Yahweh's declaration. 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 7:13Also for the purpose of giving thanks, he must offer with his peace offering cakes of bread made with yeast.

Leviticus 23:17You must bring out of your houses two loaves made from two-tenths of an ephah. They must be made from fine flour and baked with yeast; they will be a wave offering of the firstfruits to Yahweh.

Psalms 81:12So I gave them over to their own stubborn way 1 so that they might do what seemed right to them. 1

Isaiah 1:11“What is the multitude of your sacrifices to me?” says Yahweh. 1 “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fatted beasts; 1 and in the blood of bulls, lambs, or goats I do not delight. 1

Hosea 9:10Yahweh says, “When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the wilderness. 1 Like the very first fruit of the season on the fig tree, I found your fathers. 1 But they went to Baal Peor, 1 and they devoted themselves to that shameful idol. 1 They became as detestable as the idol they loved. 1

Matthew 15:9They worship me in vain, 1 because they teach as their doctrines the commandments of people.'”

Matthew Henry on Amos 4:2-6

Threatenings against Oppressors; Punishment of Proud Oppressors. ( b. c. 790.) 1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink. 2 The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fish-hooks. 3 And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into… Read the whole commentary →

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