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 Living Translation (NLT)I will not accept your burnt offerings and grain offerings. I won’t even notice all your choice peace offerings.

Context of Amos 5:22

20Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light? Is it not very dark, with no brightness in it? 21“I hate, I despise your feast days, And I do not savor your sacred assemblies. Though you offer Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them, Nor will I regard your fattened peace offerings. 23Take away from Me the noise of your songs, For I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments. 24But let justice run down like water, And righteousness like a mighty stream.

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 50:8I will not rebuke you for your sacrifices Or your burnt offerings, Which are continually before Me.
• Isaiah 66:3“He who kills a bull is as if he slays a man; He who sacrifices a lamb, as if he breaks a dog’s neck; He who offers a grain offering, as if he offers swine’s blood; He who burns incense, as if he blesses an idol. Just as they have chosen their own ways, And their soul delights in their abominations,
• Micah 6:6With what shall I come before the Lord, And bow myself before the High God? Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, With calves a year old?
• Amos 4:4“Come to Bethel and transgress, At Gilgal multiply transgression; Bring your sacrifices every morning, Your tithes every three days.
• Leviticus 7:12If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer, with the sacrifice of thanksgiving, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, unleavened wafers anointed with oil, or cakes of blended flour mixed with oil.
• Psalms 50:14Offer to God thanksgiving, And pay your vows to the Most High.
• Psalms 107:21Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness, And for His wonderful works to the children of men!
• Psalms 116:17I will offer to You the sacrifice of thanksgiving, And will call upon 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
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• Seek
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• 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