Amos 5:25

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 of presenting Him no oblations at all: cp. Joshua 5:5; 1 Samuel 15:22; Jeremiah 7:22; Jeremiah 7:23.

26, 27. Render, 'And ye shall take up Sikkuth your king, and Kçwân your images, the star of your god which ye made for yourselves. And I will cause,' etc. Kçwân is the name of one of the Babylonian planetary deities who has been variously identified with Saturn or Mars. Another title of the same god, Tsalme, is probably concealed under the words rendered 'your images.' It is at present uncertain who is meant by Sikkuth. The idolaters will have to carry their idols into exile, beyond Damascus, i.e. into Assyria, which is thus vaguely indicated.