Amos 5:25

25 "House of Israel, was it sacrifices and grain offerings that you presented to Me during the 40 years in the wilderness?

Amos 5:25 Meaning and Commentary

Amos 5:25

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 Acts 7:42).

Amos 5:25 In-Context

23 Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.

24 But let justice flow like water, and righteousness, like an unfailing stream.

25 "House of Israel, was it sacrifices and grain offerings that you presented to Me during the 40 years in the wilderness?

26 But you have taken up Sakkuthyour king and Kaiwanyour star god, images you have made for yourselves.

27 So I will send you into exile beyond Damascus." Yahweh, the God of Hosts, is His name. He has spoken.