Amos 5:25
23 Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
24 But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
26 You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.
27 Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.
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.
Compare
- BSB
- Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
- KJV
- Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
- WEB
- “Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel?
- ASV
- Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
- DARBY
- Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and oblations in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
- BLB
- Sacrifices and offerings did you⁺ bring near to Me in the wilderness those forty years, O house of Israel?
- ÅB
- Bar dere fram for meg slaktoffer og matoffer i ørkenen i de førti år, Israels hus?
- OTB
- "Brakte dere meg ofre og gaver
i de førti årene i ørkenen, Israels hus? - B1930
- Bar I frem for mig slaktoffer og matoffer i ørkenen i de firti år, Israels hus?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Acts 7:42–43
But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
Read in contextEzekiel 20:8
But they rebelled against Me and refused to listen. None of them cast away the abominations before their eyes, and they did not forsake the idols of Egypt. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the land of Egypt.
Read in contextNehemiah 9:18
Even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and when they committed terrible blasphemies,
Read in contextJoshua 24:14
Now, therefore, fear the LORD and serve Him in sincerity and truth; cast aside the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.
Read in contextLeviticus 17:7
They must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat demons to which they have prostituted themselves. This will be a permanent statute for them for the generations to come.’
Read in contextEzekiel 20:16
because they kept rejecting My ordinances, refusing to walk in My statutes, and profaning My Sabbaths; for their hearts continually went after their idols.
Read in contextNehemiah 9:21
For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 32:17–19
They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.
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