Amos 5:22

The commonest and most popular kinds of sacrifice are particularized as rejected by Jehovah. The burnt- and peace-offerings are often mentioned in the historical books, and were frequently sacrificed together (Exodus 20:24; Exodus 32:6; Judges 20:26; Judges 21:4; 1Sa 10:8; 1 Samuel 13:9; 2 Samuel 6:17; 2Sa 24:25; 1 Kings 3:15; cf. Isaiah 1:11, where -the fat of fed beasts" is an allusion to the peace-offering). The peace-offering, being the sacrifice most commonly offered, is also often called -sacrifice" (lit. slaughtering) simply: Exodus 18:12; Deuteronomy 12:6; 1 Samuel 6:15 al.).

meat offerings meal - offerings, or cereal offerings. The word -meat" has altered its meaning since the time when the A.V. was made, and is now restricted to flesh: so that the rendering -meat offering" for offerings consisting exclusively of either parched corn or various preparations of flour (see Leviticus 2) has become altogether misleading. The Heb. word minḥahmeans properly a presentor gift, especially one offered to a king or noble, to do him homage or secure his favour (Genesis 32:13; Genesis 43:11; 1 Samuel 10:27), and euphemistically for tribute, 2 Samuel 8:2; 2 Samuel 8:6 &c.: hence it is used sometimes in a general sense of gifts offered in sacrifice to God (Genesis 4:3-5; Numbers 16:15; 1Sa 2:17; 1 Samuel 2:29; 1 Samuel 26:19); in the priestly sections of the Pent., on the other hand, it is used exclusively in the narrower and technical sense of a -meal-offering." It seems therefore that the custom must have gradually grown up of designating animal sacrifices by their special names (burnt-offering, peace-offering &c.), while minḥahwas more and more restricted to vegetable offerings alone. This double application of the term sometimes makes it uncertain whether -offering" in general, or -meal-offering" in particular, is denoted by it. Where, however, as here, it stands beside the names of two other species of sacrifice, it has the presumption of being used to denote a special kind likewise (cf. Joshua 22:23; Judges 13:23; 1 Kings 8:64).

fat beasts or fatlings, 2Sa 6:13, 1 Kings 1:9; 1Ki 1:19; 1 Kings 1:25, and (in the same connexion) Isaiah 1:11 (where, on account of the word fat, with which it is joined, it is in the English version rendered fed beasts). In the -peace-offering" the fat parts were those which were specially set apart to be "burnt" (הקטיר), i.e. consumed in sweet smoke (cf. on Amos 4:5), upon the altar (Leviticus 3:3-5; Leviticus 3:9-11; Leviticus 3:14-16).