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

Bible Comments

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 hypocrites had a high esteem, Micah 6:6, because they accounted it an entire gift to God. And your meat-offerings; to your burnt-offering add the other, your meat-offering also, as Leviticus 2:1,2 Num 6:17. See Joel 1:13, Joel 2:14. I will not accept them; it may be a meiosis, I will hate them, as Amos 5:21. Neither will I regard the peace-offerings; your thank-offerings too, of which Leviticus 6:12, Leviticus 7:15, your praises for your prosperity, are no better pleasing neither. Of your fat beasts: in these peace-offerings, though you bring the best, the fattest, yet you bring nothing but a beast, for you leave your hearts with your sins; and you have no warrant from God to do this, nay, you are prohibited, for you are to offer only at Jerusalem, and at the temple.

Amos 5:22

22 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.