Amos 5:21-27

21 "I hate, I ¹reject your festivals, Nor do I ²delight in your solemn assemblies.

22 "Even though you ³offer up to Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them; And I will not even look at the ⁴peace offerings of your fatlings.

23 "Take away from Me the noise of your songs; I will not even listen to the sound of your harps.

24 "But let ⁵justice roll down like waters And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

25 "⁶Did you present Me with sacrifices and grain offerings in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel?

26 "⁷You also carried along Sikkuth your king and Kiyyun, your images, the star of your gods which you made for yourselves.

27 "Therefore, I will make you go into exile beyond * Damascus," says the LORD, whose name is the God of hosts.

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Amos 5:21-27 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

Cross References 7

1. Isaiah 1:11-16; Isaiah 66:3; Amos 4:4, 5; Amos 8:10
2. Leviticus 26:31; Jeremiah 14:12; Hosea 5:6
3. Isaiah 66:3; Micah 6:6, 7
4. Leviticus 7:11-15; Amos 4:5
5. Jeremiah 22:3; Ezekiel 45:9; Micah 6:8
6. Deuteronomy 32:17; Joshua 24:14; Nehemiah 9:18-21; Acts 7:42, 43
7. Acts 7:43

Footnotes 5

[a]. Lit "like to smell"
[b]. Or "You presented Me with the sacrifices and a grain offering"
[c]. Or "Sakkuth (Saturn)" or "shrine of your Moloch"
[d]. Or "Kaiwan (Saturn)" or "stands of"
[e]. Or "your star gods"