Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Amos 5:22
Verse Amos 5:22. The peace-offerings of your fat beasts.] מריאיכם merieychem probably means buffaloes; and so Bochart.
Verse Amos 5:22. The peace-offerings of your fat beasts.] מריאיכם merieychem probably means buffaloes; and so Bochart.
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...
OFFER. offer up. BURNT OFFERINGS... MEAT OFFERINGS. See App-43. I WILL NOT ACCEPT, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 1:4. App-92. PEACE OFFERINGS. See App-43 TAKE THOU AWAY &c. Compare Isaiah...
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...
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 sacrifi...
_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...
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...
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. THOUGH YE OFFER ME ... YOUR MEAT OFFERINGS - flour...
5:22 offer (a-4) Leviticus 14:20 ....
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...
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...
These verses closely resemble the condemnation which Isaiah pronounces (Amos 1:10) upon mere ritual, however punctilious, mere profession of orthodoxy, however exacting, which was not accompanied by r...
כִּ֣י אִם ־תַּעֲלוּ ־לִ֥י עֹלֹ֛ות וּ מִנְחֹתֵ
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...
Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, (l) I will not accept [them]: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. (l) Because you have corrupted my true service,...
_Vows. Hebrew, "peace-offerings of your mercies;" a sort of oxen, 2 Kings vi. 13., and 3 Kings i. 9. Septuagint, "the salvation of your appearance," or what you offer for your welfare._...
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...
_When ye offer me sacrifices and your gift, _etc. מנחה, _meneche, _properly means a gift of flour, which was an addition to the sacrifice; but it is often taken generally for any kind of offering. It...
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...
THOUGH YE OFFER ME BURNT OFFERINGS, AND YOUR MEAT OFFERINGS, I WILL NOT ACCEPT [THEM],.... The daily burnt offerings, morning and night, and others which were wholly the Lord's; and the "minchah", or...
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. Ver. 22. _Though ye offer me burnt offerings, &c._]...
_I hate and despise your feast-days_ This and the three following verses are the same in sense with Isaiah 1:11, and the other texts referred to in the margin, on which the reader is desired to consul...
Though ye offer Me burnt offerings and your meat-offerings, as they still continued to do in their effort to have the Lord accept their outward worship, I WILL NOT ACCEPT THEM; NEITHER WILL I ACCEPT T...
WOE UPON FOOLS AND HYPOCRITES...
PEACE OFFERINGS: Or, thank offerings...
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...
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 hyp...
Amos 5:22 offer H5927 (H8686) offerings H5930 offerings H4503 accept H7521 (H8799) regard H5027 (H8686) fattened...
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...
_I hate, I despise your feast days._ THE DIVINELY ABHORRENT AND THE DIVINELY DEMANDED I. The Divinely abhorrent. The same aversion from the ceremonial observances of the insincere and rebellious Isra...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 5:22 I WILL NOT ACCEPT THEM. The Israelites may seem to be worshiping God, but he knows they do not love and obey him. ⇐...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 5:21.] Festivals and sacrifices will not avert judgments. YOUR FEASTS] of human origin, not Divine appointment (Isaiah 1:10); the expression of Divine abhorrence is most emphat...
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...
Amos 4:4; Amos 4:5; Isaiah 66:3; Leviticus 7:12; Micah 6:6;...