Amos 5:22 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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. ”

Amos 5:22 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, (l) I will not accept [them]: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. (l) Because you have corrupted my true service...
Amos 5:22 - 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 5:22 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

offer . offer up. burnt offerings... meat offerings. See App-43. I will not accept, &c. Reference to Pentateuch ( Leviticus 1:4 . App-92. peace offerings. See App-43 Take thou away &...
Amos 5:22 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

When ye offer me sacrifices and your gift, etc. מנחה, meneche, properly means a gift of flour, which was an addition to the sacrifice; but it is often taken generally for any kind of offe...
Amos 5:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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. The peace-offerings of your fat beasts - מריאיכם me...
Amos 5:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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. Though ye offer me ... your meat offerings -...
Amos 5:22 - 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 5:22 - 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 5:22 - 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 5:22 - 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 5:22 - 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 5:22 - 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 5:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Though ye offer me burnt offerings, and your meat offerings, I will not accept [them] ,.... The daily burnt offerings, morning and night, and others which were wholly the Lord's; and the "minchah",...
Amos 5:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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. Ver. 22. Though ye offer me burnt offerings, &am...
Amos 5:22 - 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 5:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Hypocritical Services Rejected; Threatenings against Israel. B. C. 790. 21 I hate, I d...
Amos 5:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Though ye, that have departed from my temple, law, and institutions, you of the ten tribes, offer me burnt-offerings; which was wholly burnt on the altar; no part due to any but God; of this these...
Amos 5:22 - 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 5:22 - 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 5:22 - 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 5:22 - 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 5:22 - 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 5:22 - 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 5:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Woe upon Fools and Hypocrites
Amos 5:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 4:4 ; Amos 4:5 ; Isaiah 66:3 ; Leviticus 7:12-15 ; Micah 6:6 ; Micah 6:7 ; Psalms 107:21 ; Psalms 107:22 ; Psalms 116:17 ; Psalms 50:14 ; Psalms 50:23 ; Psalms 50:8-13

Amos 5:22 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Amos 5:22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 5:22 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Amos 5:22 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 5:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Amos 5:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Amos 5:22 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 5:22 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Amos 5:22 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Amos 5:22 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Amos 5:22 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Amos 5:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Amos 5:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Amos 5:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Amos 5:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Amos 5:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Amos 5:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Amos 5:22 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 5:22 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Amos 5:22 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Amos 5:22 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Amos 5:22 - The Biblical Illustrator

Amos 5:22 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Amos 5:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Amos 5:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge