Amos 4:5

3 You will go out through broken walls, each one straight ahead of her, and you will be cast out toward Harmon,” declares the LORD.

4 “Go to Bethel and transgress; rebel even more at Gilgal! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days.

Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings. For that is what you children of Israel love to do,” declares the Lord GOD.

6 “I beset all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

7 “I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings. For that is what you children of Israel love to do,” declares the Lord GOD.
KJV
And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
WEB
offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them; for this pleases you, you children of Israel,” says the Lord GOD.
ASV
and offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim freewill-offerings and publish them: for this pleaseth you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah.
DARBY
and burn a thank-offering with leaven, and proclaim, publish, voluntary offerings: for this pleaseth you, children of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah.
BLB
And offer a sacrifice of of thanksgiving with leaven, and call out the freewill offerings—proclaim that—for this you⁺ love, O sons of Israel,” a declaration of the Lord YHWH.
ÅB
og la røyk av syret brød stige opp som takkoffer og tillys frivillige offer og kunngjør det! For så vil dere jo gjerne ha det, dere Israels barn, sier Herren, Israels Gud.
OTB
Frembring også et takkeoffer av det som er syret,
Og proklamer frivillige offer, gjør dem kjent.
For dette er hva dere elsker å gjøre, dere Israels barn,”
Sier Herren Gud.
B1930
og la røk av syret brød stige op som takkoffer og tillys frivillige offer og kunngjør det! For så vil I jo gjerne ha det, I Israels barn, sier Herren, Israels Gud.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Psalms 81:12

    So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.

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  • Leviticus 22:18–21

    “Speak to Aaron and his sons and all the Israelites and tell them, ‘Any man of the house of Israel or any foreign resident who presents a gift for a burnt offering to the LORD, whether to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering,

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  • Hosea 9:10

    I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so they became as detestable as the thing they loved.

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  • Matthew 23:23

    Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.

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  • Hosea 9:1

    Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.

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  • Leviticus 7:12–13

    If he offers it in thanksgiving, then along with the sacrifice of thanksgiving he shall offer unleavened cakes mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers coated with oil, and well-kneaded cakes of fine flour mixed with oil.

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  • Matthew 6:2

    So when you give to the needy, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.

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  • Matthew 15:13–14

    But Jesus replied, “Every plant that My heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by its roots.

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