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Amos 5:25-26 KJV
Amos · chapter 5 · verses 25–26
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.Amos 5:25-26 · King James Version
Amos 5:25-26 in context
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.
27Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- sacrificeszebachproperly, a slaughterH2077 →
- wildernessmidbâra pastureH4057 →
- tabernacleçikkûwthan boothH5522 →
- offeringsminchâha donationH4503 →
- offerednâgashto be or come nearH5066 →
- Molochmeleka kingH4428 →
- imagestselema phantomH6754 →
- fortyʼarbâʻîymfortyH705 →
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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