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Amos 5:22-27

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22 Even if you offer Me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept [them];[a] I will have no regard for your fellowship offerings of fattened cattle.
23 Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.[b]
24 But let justice flow like water, and righteousness, like an unfailing stream.[c]
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[d] Sakkuth[e][f]your king[g] and Kaiwan[h][i]your star god, images you have made for yourselves.[j]
27 So I will send you into exile beyond Damascus."[k] Yahweh, the God of Hosts, is His name. He has spoken.
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Amos 5:22-27 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO AMOS 5

In this chapter the prophet exhorts Israel to hear his lamentation over them for their impending ruin, Am 5:1-3; nevertheless to seek the Lord, and all that is good; to forsake their idols, and repent of their sins, in hopes of finding mercy, and living comfortably; or otherwise they must expect the wrath of God for their iniquities, especially their oppression of the poor, Am 5:4-15; otherwise it would be a time of weeping and wailing, of darkness and distress, however they might harden or flatter themselves, or make a jest of it, Am 5:16-20; for all their sacrifices and ceremonial worship would signify nothing, so long as they continued their idolatry with them Am 5:21-26; and therefore should surely go into captivity, Am 5:27.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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Footnotes 11

  • [a] Jr 14:12
  • [b] Isa 5:12
  • [c] Mc 6:6-8
  • [d] Or you will lift up
  • [e] LXX, Sym, Syr, Vg read the tent; Ac 7:43
  • [f] Lit Sikkuth; probably a Mesopotamian war god also called Adar or Ninurta
  • [g] LXX, Vg read up the tent of Molech; Ac 7:43
  • [h] LXX reads Rephan; Ac 7:43
  • [i] Lit Kiyyun; probably a Mesopotamian god identified with Saturn
  • [j] Isa 44:12-20
  • [k] 2 Kg 17:5-6; Ac 7:42-43
Holman Christian Standard Bible ® Copyright © 2003, 2002, 2000, 1999 by Holman Bible Publishers.  Used by permission.  All rights reserved.

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