Amos 5:25

25 Did you perchance offer me any sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness in forty years, O house of Israel?

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 thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy instruments.

24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

25 Did you perchance offer me any sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness in forty years, O house of Israel?

26 But ye have offered unto Sicut your king, and unto Chiun your idols, the star of your gods which ye made.

27 Therefore I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, said the LORD, whose name is The God of the hosts.