Amos 5:25 BSB — MannaFest

Amos 5:25

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

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

4 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Amos (420)

(Verse 25 and following) Did you offer to Me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel? You also took along the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of your god Rephan, the images which you made for yourselves. Therefore I will exile you beyond Damascus, says the Lord, whose name is the God of hosts.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings,.... No; they were not offered to God, but to devils, to the golden calf, and to the host of heaven: so their fathers did in the wilderness forty years; where sacrifices were omitted during that time, a round number for a broken one, it being about thirty eight years; and these their children were imitators of them, and offered sacrifice to idols too, and therefore deserved punishment as they: even ye, O house of Israel? the ten tribes, who are here particularly charged and threatened; See Gill on Act 7:42.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

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quotes this passage ( Acts vii. 42 ), to show the Jews that they ought not to think it strange that ceremonial law was repealed when from the beginning it was comparatively made light of.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.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Have ye offered - (better, “Did ye offer”) unto Me sacrifices and offerings? Israel justified himself to himself by his half-service. This had been his way from the first. “Their heart was not whole with God, neither abode they in His covenant” Psa 78:37. He thought to be accepted by God, because he did a certain homage to Him. He acknowledged God in his own way. God sets before him another instance of this half-service and what it issued in; the service of that generation which He brought out of Egypt, and which left their bones in the wilderness.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הַזְּבָחִ֨ים	ha.ze.va.Chim	¿ sacrifices	H2077 →
וּמִנְחָ֜ה	u.min.Chah	and grain offering[s]	H4503 →
הִֽגַּשְׁתֶּם־	hi.gash.tem-	did you bring near	H5066 →
לִ֧י	li	to me
בַמִּדְבָּ֛ר	va.mid.Bar	in the wilderness	H4057 →
אַרְבָּעִ֥ים	'ar.ba.'Im	forty	H705 →
שָׁנָ֖ה	sha.Nah	year[s]	H8141 →
בֵּ֥ית	beit	O house of	H1004 →
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H5066higashtem-did you bring near125×

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Where the connections lead

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Through
Joshua 24:14
Now, therefore, fear the LORD and serve Him in sincerity and truth; cast aside the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.
leads to
- 1 Samuel 12:24
  Above all, fear the LORD and serve Him faithfully with all your heart; consider what great things He has done for you.
- Deuteronomy 10:12
  And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your…
- Genesis 35:2
  So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.
- Joshua 24:23
  “Now, therefore,” he said, “get rid of the foreign gods among you and incline your hearts to the LORD, the God of Israel.”
- Psalms 119:1
  Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the Law of the LORD.
Through
Nehemiah 9:21
For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 2:7
  Indeed, the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. The LORD your God has been with you these…
- Deuteronomy 8:4
  Your clothing did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.
- Deuteronomy 29:5
  For forty years I led you in the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Amos

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Amos