Amos 5:25
The sacrifices and meal-offering, ye brought near unto me, in the desert, for forty years O house of Israel;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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, justice, roll along like water,—and, righteousness, as a torrent over flowing.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:17They sacrificed to mischievous demons to a No-GOD, Gods whom they knew not,—New ones lately come in, Your fathers never shuddered at them!
Nehemiah 9:18Yea, although they made them a molten calf, and said, This, is thy God, that brought thee up out of Egypt,—and wrought great insults,
Isaiah 43:23Thou hast not brought in to me small cattle as thine ascending-offerings, Nor, with thy sacrifices, hast thou honoured me,—I have not oppressed thee with meal-offerings, Nor have I wearied thee with frankincense;
Ezekiel 20:16Because my regulations, they had rejected. And as for my statutes, they had not walked therein, My sabbaths also, had they profaned; For after their manufactured gods, their heart had been going.
Hosea 9:9They have deeply corrupted themselves, like the days of Gibeah: he will call to mind their iniquity, he will punish their sins.
Acts 7:42But God, turned, and delivered them up to be doing divine service unto the host of heaven,—just as it is written in a book of the prophets—Victims and sacrifices did ye offer unto me, 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 →