Amos 5:25 KJV — MannaFest

Amos 5:25

Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

KJV

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ASV

Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

WEB

Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

YLT

Sacrifices and offering did ye bring nigh to Me, In a wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

DBT

Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and oblations in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

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Amos — A herdsman of Tekoa sent north to Bethel — a shepherd-prophet preaching judgment on a prosperous, comfortable, oppressive society. ‘Let justice roll down.’

Author: Amos, a herdman of Tekoa in Judah, sent to Israel at Bethel (1:1, 7:14)
Date: c. 760–750 BC, during the reigns of Uzziah in Judah and Jeroboam II in Israel

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Acts 7:42
Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
Isaiah 43:23
Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.
Nehemiah 9:18
Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;
Ezekiel 20:8
But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 4:19
And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

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Stephen quotes this passage ( Acts vii. 42 ), to show the Jews that they ought not to think it strange that ceremonial law was repealed when from the beginning it was comparatively made light of. What little reason they had to expect that their sacrifices should be acceptable to God, when they and their fathers had been all along addicted to the worship of other gods.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

It is the word which I take up --not the prophet only, but the God that sent him. It is the word that the Lord has spoken, ch. iii. The word to be heard is a lamentation, a lamentable account of the present calamitous state of the kingdom of Israel, and a lamentable prediction of its utter destruction.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

, " Did you offer to me sacrifices, that is, to me only? No, and therefore not at all to me acceptably;" for the law of worshipping the Lord our God is, Him only we must serve. " But you have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Quoted in ACT 7:42
'O ye house of Israel, have ye offered...' — Stephen ('as it is written in the book of the prophets')

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