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Amos 5:22
22Even though you offer Me your burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them; And I will not even look at the peace offerings of your fattened animals.
Amos 5:22 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
- New International Version (NIV)Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Though you bring choice fellowship offerings, I will have no regard for them.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the peace offerings of your fattened animals, I will not look upon them.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Though you offer Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them, Nor will I regard your fattened peace offerings.
Context of Amos 5:22
20Will not the day of the Lord be darkness, instead of light, Even very dark with no brightness in it? 21“I hate, I despise and reject your [sacred] feasts, And I do not take delight in your solemn assemblies. Even though you offer Me your burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them; And I will not even look at the peace offerings of your fattened animals. 23Take the noise of your songs away from Me [they are an irritation]! I shall not even listen to the melody of your harps. 24But let justice run down like waters And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream [flowing abundantly].
Read all of Amos 5Amos 5:22 word by word
כִּ֣י אִם־תַּעֲלוּ־לִ֥י עֹל֛וֹת וּמִנְחֹתֵיכֶ֖ם לֹ֣א אֶרְצֶ֑ה וְשֶׁ֥לֶם מְרִיאֵיכֶ֖ם לֹ֥א אַבִּֽיט׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Though ye offerעָלָה‛âlâh · to ascend: offer upH5927
- me burnt offeringsעֹלָה‛ôlâh ‛ôlâh · burnt offeringH5930
- and your meat offeringsמִנְחָהminchâh · offeringH4503
- I will not acceptרָצָהrâtsâh · to acceptH7521
- neither will I regardנָבַטnâbaţ · to lookH5027
- the peace offeringsשֶׁ֫לֶםshelem · peace offeringH8002
- of your fat beastsמְרִיאmerîy' · fatlingH4806
Cross-references for Amos 5:22
- Psalms 50:8I do not reprove you for your sacrifices; Your burnt offerings are continually before Me.
- Isaiah 66:3“He who kills an ox [for pagan sacrifice] is [as guilty] as one who kills a man; He who sacrifices a lamb, as one who breaks a dog’s neck; He who offers a grain offering, as one who offers swine’s blood; He who offers incense, as one who blesses an idol. Such people have chosen their own ways, And their soul delights in their repulsive acts;
- Micah 6:6With what shall I come before the Lord [to honor Him] And bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, With yearling calves?
- Amos 4:4“Come to Bethel [where the golden calf is] and transgress; In Gilgal [where idols are worshiped] multiply transgression; Bring your sacrifices every morning, Your tithes every three days!
- Leviticus 7:12If one offers it as a sacrificial meal of thanksgiving, then along with the sacrifice of thanksgiving he shall offer unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil, and cakes of fine flour mixed with oil.
- Psalms 50:14Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving And pay your vows to the Most High;
- Psalms 107:21Let them give thanks to the Lord for His lovingkindness, And for His wonderful acts to the children of men!
- Psalms 116:17I will offer to You the sacrifice of thanksgiving, And will call on the name of the Lord.
Commentaries on Amos 5:22
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 22The peace-offerings of your fat beasts - מריאיכם merieychem probably means buffaloes; and so Bochart.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 18-27Verses 18-27 Woe unto those that desire the day of the Lord's judgments, that wish for times of war and confusion; as some who long for changes, hoping to rise upon the ruins of their country! but this should be so great a desolation, that nobody could gain by it. The day of the Lord will be a dark, dismal, gloomy day to all impenitent sinners. When God makes a day dark, all the world cannot make it light. Those who are not reformed by the judgments of…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 22God would not accept the Israelites’ offerings. These offerings were attempts to control God through ritual actions, rather than true signs of repentance and faith (see Leviticus 1–6).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2222. meat offerings--flour, &c. Unbloody offerings. peace offerings--offerings for obtaining from God peace and prosperity. Hebrew, "thank offerings."Read the comment
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Commentaries on Amos 5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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