Amos 5:22

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 and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it? 21“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies. Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard. 23Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps. 24But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

Amos 5:22 word by word

כִּ֣י אִם־תַּעֲלוּ־לִ֥י עֹל֛וֹת וּמִנְחֹתֵיכֶ֖ם לֹ֣א אֶרְצֶ֑ה וְשֶׁ֥לֶם מְרִיאֵיכֶ֖ם לֹ֥א אַבִּֽיט׃Read the interlinear

• Evenכִּי [אם]kîy · that if: exceptH3588
• though[כִּי] אם'im · if: exceptH518
• you offerעָלָה‛âlâh · to ascend: offer upH5927
• burnt offeringsעֹלָה‛ôlâh ‛ôlâh · burnt offeringH5930
• and grain offeringsמִנְחָהminchâh · offeringH4503
• I will notלֹאlô' lô' lôh · notH3808
• accept themרָצָהrâtsâh · to acceptH7521
• for your peace offeringsשֶׁ֫לֶםshelem · peace offeringH8002
• of fattened cattleמְרִיאmerîy' · fatlingH4806
• regardנָבַטnâbaţ · to lookH5027

Cross-references for Amos 5:22

• Psalms 50:8I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.
• Isaiah 66:3Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who slays a man; whoever sacrifices a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; whoever presents a grain offering is like one who offers pig’s blood; whoever offers frankincense is like one who blesses an idol. Indeed, they have chosen their own ways and delighted in their abominations.
• Micah 6:6With what shall I come before the LORD when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves?
• Amos 4:4“Go to Bethel and transgress; rebel even more at Gilgal! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days.
• Leviticus 7:12If he offers it in thanksgiving, then along with the sacrifice of thanksgiving he shall offer unleavened cakes mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers coated with oil, and well-kneaded cakes of fine flour mixed with oil.
• Psalms 50:14Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High.
• Psalms 107:21Let them give thanks to the LORD for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.
• Psalms 116:17I will offer to You a sacrifice of thanksgiving and 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

Topics related to Amos 5:22

• Formalism
• Hypocrisy
• Offerings
• Worship

In the dictionaries

• Peace offerings
• Manifold
• Seek
• Amos (1)
• Calf, Golden
• Criticism
• High Place
• Idolatry
• Joel (2)
• Law in the Old Testament

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