Amos 5:22
in Amos 5Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Yea, though ye offer me your burnt-offerings and meal-offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace-offerings of your fat beasts.
KJV
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.
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This verse in Amos 5
Commentary
6 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
I hate, I despise your feasts
on Amos 5:21-24
The Lord refuses the festival calendar in His own voice, "I hate, I despise your feasts." Burnt offerings, grain offerings and peace offerings are named and turned away. Verse 24 is the standard all of it failed: "let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream."
This site's exposition
I will not accept them
Three kinds of offering are named and refused: the burnt offering, the grain offering and the peace offering of fattened cattle. Albert Barnes calls the whole burnt offering the token of self-sacrifice, in which the worshipper kept nothing back. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown give Isaiah 1:10-15 as the parallel.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers2 voices
A commentator
John ChrysostomDISCOURSES AGAINST JUDAIZING CHRISTIANS 4:6 · Written before 407.
proposed
This brings us to a conclusion on another matter of great importance. The observances regarding sacrifices, sabbaths, new moons, and all such things prescribed by the Jewish way of life of that day—they are not essential. Even when they were observed they could make no great contribution to virtue; nor when neglected could they make the excellent person worthless or degrade in any way the sanctity of his soul. People of old, while still on earth, manifested by their piety a way of life that rivals the way the angels live. Yet they followed none of these observances, they slew no beasts in sacrifice, they kept no fast, they made no display of fasting. They were so pleasing to God that they surpassed this fallen human nature of ours and, by the lives they lived, drew the whole world to a knowledge of God.
(Verses 21, 22.) I hated and rejected your feasts, and I will not take the smell of your heavens. But if you bring me burnt offerings and your gifts, I will not accept them, and I will not look at the fat of your animals. LXX: I have hated and rejected your feasts, and I will not be pleased with your assemblies.
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Though ye offer me burnt offerings, and your meat offerings, I will not accept them,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
The peace-offerings of your fat beasts - מריאיכם merieychem probably means buffaloes; and so Bochart.
The words behind it
12 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כִּ֣י | ki | that | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| אִם־ | ʾim- | except | H518 → | 1069 times |
| תַּעֲלוּ־ | taalu- | you will offer up | H5927 → | 890 times |
| לִ֥י | li | to me | ||
| עֹל֛וֹת | olot | burnt offerings | H5930 → | |
| וּמִנְחֹתֵיכֶ֖ם | uminchoteikhem | and grain offerings your | H4503 → | |
| לֹ֣א | lo' | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| אֶרְצֶ֑ה | ʾertzeh | I will accept [them] | H7521 → | |
| וְשֶׁ֥לֶם | veshelem | and [the] peace offering of | H8002 → | |
| מְרִיאֵיכֶ֖ם | merieikhem | fatlings your | H4806 → | |
| לֹ֥א | lo' | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| אַבִּֽיט׃ | ʾabit | I will pay attention to | H5027 → |
כִּ֣יthat
kiH3588 →4482 times
אִם־except
ʾim-H518 →1069 times
תַּעֲלוּ־you will offer up
taalu-H5927 →890 times
לִ֥יto me
li
עֹל֛וֹתburnt offerings
olotH5930 →
וּמִנְחֹתֵיכֶ֖םand grain offerings your
uminchoteikhemH4503 →
לֹ֣אnot
lo'H3808 →5168 times
אֶרְצֶ֑הI will accept [them]
ʾertzehH7521 →
וְשֶׁ֥לֶםand [the] peace offering of
veshelemH8002 →
מְרִיאֵיכֶ֖םfatlings your
merieikhemH4806 →
לֹ֥אnot
lo'H3808 →5168 times
אַבִּֽיט׃I will pay attention to
ʾabitH5027 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Isaiah 66:3Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who slays a man; whoever sacrifices a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; whoever presents a grain offering is like one who offers pig’s…
it leads to
- Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
- Isaiah 1:11–15
“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood…
- Amos 5:21–22
“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
- Isaiah 66:17
“Those who consecrate and purify themselves to enter the groves—to follow one in the center of those who eat the flesh of swine and vermin and rats—will perish together,” declares the LORD.
- Leviticus 2:2
and bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests. The priest shall take a handful of the flour and oil, together with all the frankincense, and burn this as a memorial portion on the altar,…
- Proverbs 15:8
Where this verse is studied
About Amos
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, The Twelve Minor Prophets; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Amos; John Chrysostom, DISCOURSES AGAINST JUDAIZING CHRISTIANS 4:6 and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).