Amos 5:25

25 Did you bring to me sacrifices and offering[s] those forty years in the desert, 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 Remove from me the noise of your songs, and I do not want to hear the melody of your harps!

24 But let justice roll on like the water, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

25 Did you bring to me sacrifices and offering[s] those forty years in the desert, O house of Israel?

26 And you will take up Sikkuth, your king, and Kaiwan, your images, the star of your gods which you made for yourselves.

27 And I will deport you beyond Damascus," says Yahweh--the God of hosts [is] his name.