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

20Yes, the day of the Lord will be dark and hopeless, without a ray of joy or hope. 21“I hate all your show and pretense— the hypocrisy of your religious festivals and solemn assemblies. I will not accept your burnt offerings and grain offerings. I won’t even notice all your choice peace offerings. 23Away with your noisy hymns of praise! I will not listen to the music of your harps. 24Instead, I want to see a mighty flood of justice, an endless river of righteous living.

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 have no complaint about your sacrifices or the burnt offerings you constantly offer.
• Isaiah 66:3But those who choose their own ways— delighting in their detestable sins— will not have their offerings accepted. When such people sacrifice a bull, it is no more acceptable than a human sacrifice. When they sacrifice a lamb, it’s as though they had sacrificed a dog! When they bring an offering of grain, they might as well offer the blood of a pig. When they burn frankincense, it’s as if they had blessed an idol.
• Micah 6:6What can we bring to the Lord? Should we bring him burnt offerings? Should we bow before God Most High with offerings of yearling calves?
• Amos 4:4“Go ahead and offer sacrifices to the idols at Bethel. Keep on disobeying at Gilgal. Offer sacrifices each morning, and bring your tithes every three days.
• Leviticus 7:12If you present your peace offering as an expression of thanksgiving, the usual animal sacrifice must be accompanied by various kinds of bread made without yeast—thin cakes mixed with olive oil, wafers spread with oil, and cakes made of choice flour mixed with olive oil.
• Psalms 50:14Make thankfulness your sacrifice to God, and keep the vows you made to the Most High.
• Psalms 107:21Let them praise the Lord for his great love and for the wonderful things he has done for them.
• Psalms 116:17I will offer 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