Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Amos 5:25
Have ye — Their fathers and they, tho' at so great a distance of time, are one people, and so the prophet considers them. Unto me — Was it to me, or to your idols, that you offered, even in the wilderness?
Have ye — Their fathers and they, tho' at so great a distance of time, are one people, and so the prophet considers them. Unto me — Was it to me, or to your idols, that you offered, even in the wilderness?
Verse Amos 5:24. _HAVE YE OFFERED UNTO ME SACRIFICES_] Some have been led to think that "during the _forty years_ which the Israelites spent in the wilderness, between Egypt and the promised land, th...
HAVE YE OFFERED - (better, “Did ye offer”) unto Me sacrifices and offerings? Israel justified himself to himself by his half-service. This had been his way from the first. “Their heart was not whole w...
CHAPTER 5 The Third Discourse _ 1. The lamentation (Amos 5:1) _ 2. Seek the Lord and ye shall live (Amos 5:4) 3. The wailing (Amos 5:16) 4. The captivity announced ...
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 he deals with a peculiar example of this, the conce...
HAVE YE OFFERED, &C.... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. This is. question in some codices and three early printed editions; but other codices, and four early printed editions, read it as an affirm...
Do you think to win Jehovah's favour by your religious services? On the contrary, He will have none of them: what He demands is not sacrifice, or even praise, but _justice_; in the wilderness your anc...
DID YE BRING _unto me sacrifices_&c. The question evidently requires a negative answer; and the emphatic words in the sentence are not, as has been sometimes supposed, _unto me_(which hold in the Heb...
_WHAT THE LORD DEMANDS -- AMOS 5:21-27 _ The children of Israel stilled assembled before God to conduct solemn assemblies or religious celebrations. Sadly, God took no delight in their times of worshi...
HAVE YE OFFERED UNTO ME, &C.— See the note on Deuteronomy 12:8. Jeremiah 7:22. These verses have made some people think that the Israelites, in their forty years' wanderings through the wilderness, co...
RIGHTEOUSNESS DEMANDS REPENTANCERID RELIGION OF HYPOCRISY TEXT: Amos 5:21-27 21 I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies. 22 Yea, though ye offer me you...
Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? HAVE YE OFFERED UNTO ME SACRIFICES AND OFFERINGS IN THE WILDERNESS FORTY YEARS, O HOUSE OF ISRAEL?...
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 attempt to...
HAVE YE OFFERED?] RV 'Did ye bring?' The answer is 'No.' So far is God from being influenced by sacrifices that all the time when His Providential care over them was most marked they were in the habit...
THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 5 GOD ENCOURAGES ISRAEL’S PEOPLE TO COME BACK TO HIM V1 People in Israel, listen to this song. ‘This funeral song is ab...
_(_25, 26_)_ Much uncertainty belongs to the interpretation of these verses and their connection in thought. Some commentators would treat Amos 5:25 as a statement, and not a question, the first word...
הַ זְּבָחִ֨ים וּ מִנְחָ֜ה הִֽגַּשְׁתֶּם ־לִ֧י...
2. FOR WORSHIP, JUSTICE Amos 5:1 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 relief of the...
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 unrighteous ex...
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 her...
Did you offer, &c. Except the sacrifices that were offered at the first, in the dedication of the tabernacle, the Israelites offered no sacrifices in the desert. (Challoner) --- They ceased after the...
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. But what I part...
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. "The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the...
The Prophet shows in this place, that he not only reproved hypocrisy in the Israelites in obtruding on God only external display of ceremonies without any true religion in the heart; but that he also...
After having deplored the ruin of Israel, He contrasts the places of their false worship with Jehovah, the Creator, and exhorts them to come unto Him and live. But Israel put off the thought of the ev...
HAVE YE OFFERED UNTO ME SACRIFICES AND OFFERINGS,.... No; they were not offered to God, but to devils, to the golden calf, and to the host of heaven: so their fathers did IN THE WILDERNESS FORTY YEAR...
Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? Ver. 25. _Have ye offered unto me sacrifices, &c._] _i.e._ To me only, and not to other gods also? d...
_Have ye offered_ Or, _did you offer, unto me sacrifices and offerings_ “Verborum emphasis in MIHI sita est,” says Spencer: The emphasis of the passage lies in ME. “Did ye offer such sacrifices as wer...
Have ye offered unto Me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness, during the journey from Egypt to the Promised Land, FORTY YEARS, O HOUSE OF ISRAEL? Even at that time the people were guilty of idol...
WOE UPON FOOLS AND HYPOCRITES...
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 shou...
Their fathers and they, though at so great distance of time, are one people, and so the prophet considers them in this place. HAVE YE OFFERED? did you not frequently omit to offer, and yet were not re...
Amos 5:25 offer H5066 (H8689) sacrifices H2077 offerings H4503 wilderness H4057 forty H705 years H8141 house H1004 Israel...
THE DAY OF DARKNESS IS COMING BECAUSE OF THE FALSITY OF THEIR WORSHIP IN THAT WHILE THEY WORSHIP THEY IGNORE JUSTICE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS (AMOS 5:21). Amos now emphatically brings out where their error l...
THE FIRST WOE, CONCERNING THE DAY OF YHWH (AMOS 5:18). 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 directly fro...
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 ce...
CONTENTS: God's lamentation over Israel and captivity foretold. The day of the Lord. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: If men will not take a right course to obtain the favor of God, God will take an eff...
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 subdued, is...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 5:25. Have] Lit. _Did ye_, equivalent to denial, some; others, not entire suspension of sacrifice, but mixed with idolatry. From of old they had been recreant to God. Their pres...
EXPOSITION VERSE 1-CH. 6:14 § 8. _Third address_:_ the prophet utters a lamentation over the fall of Israel_. (Amos 6:1.) He calls her to repentance, while he shows wherein she has declined from the...
Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation (Amos 5:1), Weeping over the house of Israel now. The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her l...
Acts 7:42; Acts 7:43; Deuteronomy 32:17; Ezekiel 20:16; Ezekiel 20:24