Amos 5:21

Feast-days— Sacrifices.

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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 fai...
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:...
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...
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 sa...
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, d...
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 conjunct...
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 a...
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 ort...
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...
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 5:1...
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...
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 quotat...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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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...
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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Hypocritical Services Rejected; Threatenings against Israel. B. C. 790....
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 t...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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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 ( Isai...
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 Chr...
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 Isra...
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 cerem...
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 t...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Woe upon Fools and Hypocrites
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

I hate, I despise, your feast-days, as the Lord calls out to them, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies, by taking pleasure in the odor o...
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 23:1...
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.

²¹ I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

Related Commentaries of Amos 5:21

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Amos 5:21