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Amos 5:25

23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.

24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.

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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
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

    Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?

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  • Ezekiel 20:8

    But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

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  • Nehemiah 9:18

    Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;

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  • Joshua 24:14

    Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.

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  • Leviticus 17:7

    And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.

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  • Ezekiel 20:16

    Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

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  • Nehemiah 9:21

    Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.

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  • Deuteronomy 32:17–19

    They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.

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