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Amos 5:22-27
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22
And if you offer me holocausts, and your gifts, I will not receive them: neither will I regard the vows of your fat beasts.
23
Take away from me the tumult of thy songs: and I will not hear the canticles of thy harp.
24
But judgment shall be revealed as water, and justice as a mighty torrent.
25
Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, O house of Israel?
26
you carried a tabernacle for your Moloch, and the image of your idols, the star of your god, which you made to yourselves.
27
And I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, the God of hosts is his name.
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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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