Amos 5:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. ”

Amos 5:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I hate, I despise your feasts - Israel clave to its heart’s sin, the worship of the true God, under the idol-form of the calf; else, it would fain be conscientious and scrupulous. It had its “fea...
Amos 5:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Israel's Delusions. The prophet resumes the subject of Israel's delusions, how she disregards the essential conditions of real welfare. In Amos 5:18-20 he deals with a peculiar example of this, t...
Amos 5:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

I hate, &c. Compare Proverbs 21:27 ; Isaiah 1:11-14 . Jeremiah 6:20 . I will not smell, &c. Reference to Pentateuch ( Leviticus 26:31 ) App-92. solemn assemblies Reference to Pentat...
Amos 5:21 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Here the Prophet, anticipating an objection, shows that the Israelites deceived themselves, for they believed that God was pacified by their sacrifices: he declares all these to be useless; not...
Amos 5:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. So has Persius; see Sat. 2 v. 71-75: - "Quin damus id Superis, de magna quod dare lanae," etc. The two or three l...
Amos 5:21 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Feast-days— Sacrifices.
Amos 5:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. I hate, I despise. The two verbs joined without a conjunction express God's strong abhorrence. Your feast...
Amos 5:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Third Address 1-6. A lament, a warning, and an invitation. 7, 10-20 . Denunciation of injustice and oppression, with threats of pestilence and judgment. 21-27 . A repudiation of their atte...
Amos 5:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

These verses closely resemble the condemnation which Isaiah pronounces ( Amos 1:10-15 ) upon mere ritual, however punctilious, mere profession of orthodoxy, however exacting, which was not accompanie...
Amos 5:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2. FOR WORSHIP, JUSTICE Amos 5:1-27 In the next of these groups of oracles Amos continues his attack on the national ritual, and now contrasts it with the service of God in public life-the reli...
Amos 5:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

a Dark Day for Hypocrites Amos 5:16-27 Mighty sins had been committed, and mighty judgments were at hand. The oppression of the poor, Amos 5:11 ; the erection of elegant dwellings from unright...
Amos 5:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The third discourse was a description of Jehovah's judgment. This opened with a lamentation for the virgin of Israel, "The virgin of Israel is fallen, she shall no more rise, she is cast down upon he...
Amos 5:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

We have here the Lord's threatenings concerning the captivity of the people, and which we know came to pass. Stephen, the first martyr, made a quotation from this scripture. Acts 7:42-43 . But what...
Amos 5:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

I hate, I despise your feast days ,.... Kimchi thinks this is said, and what follows, with respect to the kingdom of the house of Judah, which kept the feast the Lord commanded; but it is not necess...
Amos 5:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. Ver. 21. I hate, I despise your feast days ] Wherewith ye think to stop my mouth and to make me your debtor; sayi...
Amos 5:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I hate and despise your feast-days This and the three following verses are the same in sense with Isaiah 1:11-16 , and the other texts referred to in the margin, on which the reader is desired to...
Amos 5:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Hypocritical Services Rejected; Threatenings against Israel. B. C. 790. 21 I hate, I d...
Amos 5:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I hate, I despise your feast days; impure and unholy they are, whatever they seem to be, and therefore the Lord hateth them, they are abomination to him, Proverbs 15:8 Isaiah 1:13,14 . Worthle...
Amos 5:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The First Woe, Concerning The Day of YHWH ( Amos 5:18-27 ). A ‘woe' was the opposite of a ‘blessed be you of YHWH'. It was the announcing of troubles and disaster that would come on His people dir...
Amos 5:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES . ] Amos 5:21 .] Festivals and sacrifices will not avert judgments. Your feasts ] of human origin, not Divine appointment ( Isaiah 1:10-15 ); the expression of Divine abhorrence...
Amos 5:21 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Amos 5:4 . For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live: And that it just the message of God to professing Christians now: «Seek ye me.» Get away from your mere...
Amos 5:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Amos 5:2 . The virgin of Israel is fallen. Babylon, which had never been stormed by a besieging army, is called a virgin. Isaiah 47:1 . Thus Israel, whose kingdom had never yet been wholly subdue...
Amos 5:21 - The Biblical Illustrator

I hate, I despise your feast days. The Divinely abhorrent and the Divinely demanded I. The Divinely abhorrent. The same aversion from the ceremonial observances of the insincere and rebellious...
Amos 5:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Verse 1-ch. 6:14 § 8. Third address : the prophet utters a lamentation over the fall of Israel . ( Amos 6:1-30 .) He calls her to repentance, while he shows wherein she has decli...
Amos 5:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Woe upon Fools and Hypocrites
Amos 5:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ephesians 5:2 ; Genesis 8:21 ; Hosea 8:13 ; Isaiah 1:11-16 ; Isaiah 66:3 ; Jeremiah 6:20 ; Jeremiah 7:21-23 ; Leviticus 26:31 ; Matthew 23:14 ; Philippians 4:18 ; Proverbs 15:8 ; Proverbs...
Amos 5:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

I hate — Impure and unholy as they are. Will not smell — A savour, of rest or delight, I will not accept and be pleased with.

Amos 5:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Amos 5:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 5:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Amos 5:21 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 5:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Amos 5:21 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Amos 5:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Amos 5:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 5:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Amos 5:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Amos 5:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Amos 5:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Amos 5:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Amos 5:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Amos 5:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Amos 5:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Amos 5:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Amos 5:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Amos 5:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 5:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Amos 5:21 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Amos 5:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Amos 5:21 - The Biblical Illustrator

Amos 5:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Amos 5:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Amos 5:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 5:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes