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Amos 5:21-24 KJV
Amos · chapter 5 · verses 21–24
21I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. 22Though 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. 23Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. 24But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.Amos 5:21-24 · King James Version
Amos 5:21-24 in context
19As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
20Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
21I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
22Though 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.
23Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
24But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
25Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
26But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
Commentary
Cross references
- Isaiah 1:11-16
- Leviticus 26:31
- Proverbs 28:9
- Isaiah 66:3
- Micah 6:8
- Jeremiah 22:3
- Proverbs 21:3
- Hosea 6:6
- Mark 12:32-34
- Amos 5:14-15
- Amos 5:7
- Job 29:12-17
Key words (Strong's)
- righteousnesstsᵉdâqâhrightness , subjectively , objectively , morally or figurativelyH6666 →
- offeringsʻôlâha step orH5930 →
- offeringsminchâha donationH4503 →
- offeringsshelemproperly, requitalH8002 →
- judgmentmishpâṭproperly, a verdict pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree divine…H4941 →
- despisemâʼaçto spurnH3988 →
- acceptrâtsâhto be pleased withH7521 →
- regardnâbaṭto scanH5027 →
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The scope of these verses is to show how little God valued their shows of devotion, nay, how much he detested them, while they went on in their sins. Observe, I. How unpleasing, nay, how displeasing, their hypocritical services were to God.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 21-27