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

20Know this: The day of the Lord will be dark, not light. It will bring trouble, not joy. 21The Lord says, ‘When you have your festivals, I hate them! When you meet to worship me, it does not make me happy! When you bring burnt offerings and grain offerings to me, they do not please me. I will not accept your friendship offerings of fat animals. 23When you sing songs to worship me, I will not listen. They are just noise! I do not want to hear the music of your harps. 24What I do want to see is justice! I want to see that you always do what is right. Those good things should never stop, like a river that always runs with water.

Amos 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 50:8You offer sacrifices and burnt offerings to me all the time but that is not why I speak against you.
• Isaiah 66:3You may kill a bull as a sacrifice to me, but you might also kill a man. You may offer a lamb to me as a sacrifice, but you might also break a dog's neck to offer to your idols. You may give me a grain offering, but you also offer pigs' blood. You may burn incense to worship me but you also worship false gods. Yes, these people have chosen how they want to live. They love to do these disgusting things.
• Micah 6:6‘I come to meet with the Lord,’ you say. ‘I must know what to bring when I come. I bend down to worship him. I must know what to offer when I bend down. He is God and he is greater than everything. Perhaps he would like it if I burn young cows one year old for him.
• Amos 4:4The Lord also says, ‘You like to go to Bethel. You say that it is your holy place. And when you go there, you do wrong things. So go there, if you must, and do your bad things. Go to Gilgal, if you must, and do more bad things there. You bring your sacrifices there every morning as a gift. But that does not make me happy. Every three days, you bring your gifts. But that also does not make me happy.
• Leviticus 7:12If a man wants to thank God, he must give an animal and flat loaves of bread. He must mix the flour for the bread with oil. He must not mix the flour with yeast.
• Psalms 50:14Say “thank you” to me as your offering. Do whatever you have promised to do for me, the Most High God.
• Psalms 107:21So they should thank the Lord because of his faithful love. They should thank him for the great things that he does for people.
• Psalms 116:17I will offer to you a special sacrifice to say ‘thank you’. I will worship you as 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