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Verse Amos 5:21. _I HATE, I DESPISE YOUR FEAST DAYS_] I _abominate_
those sacrificial festivals where there is no _piety_, and I _despise_
them because they _pretend_ to be what they are not. This may...
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I HATE, I DESPISE YOUR FEASTS - Israel clave to its heart’s sin, the
worship of the true God, under the idol-form of the calf; else, it
would fain be conscientious and scrupulous. It had its “feasts”...
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CHAPTER 5
The Third Discourse
_ 1. The lamentation (Amos 5:1) _
2. Seek the Lord and ye shall live (Amos 5:4)
3. The wailing (Amos 5:16)
4. The captivity announced ...
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ISRAEL'S DELUSIONS. The prophet resumes the subject of Israel's
delusions, how she disregards the essential conditions of real
welfare. In Amos 5:18 he deals with a peculiar example of this, the
conce...
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I HATE, &c. Compare Proverbs 21:27; Isaiah 1:11.Jeremiah 6:20.
I WILL NOT SMELL, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus
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Do you think to win Jehovah's favour by your religious services? On
the contrary, He will have none of them: what He demands is not
sacrifice, or even praise, but _justice_; in the wilderness your
anc...
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_I hate, I_ REJECT _your feast_days] _your_ PILGRIMAGES,
_ḥaggim_denoting not feasts or festivals in general, but in
particular the three great annual feasts (viz. of Unleavened Cakes,
Weeks, and Boot...
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_WHAT THE LORD DEMANDS -- AMOS 5:21-27 _ The children of Israel
stilled assembled before God to conduct solemn assemblies or religious
celebrations. Sadly, God took no delight in their times of worshi...
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FEAST-DAYS— _Sacrifices._...
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RIGHTEOUSNESS DEMANDS REPENTANCERID RELIGION OF HYPOCRISY
TEXT: Amos 5:21-27
21
I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your
solemn assemblies.
22
Yea, though ye offer me you...
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I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your
solemn assemblies.
I HATE, I DESPISE. The two verbs joined without a conjunction express
God's strong abhorrence. YOUR FEAST DAYS -...
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THE THIRD ADDRESS
1-6. A lament, a warning, and an invitation.
7, 10-20. Denunciation of injustice and oppression, with threats of
pestilence and judgment.
21-27. A repudiation of their attempt to...
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THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD
AMOS
_MARK KIRKPATRICK_
CHAPTER 5
GOD ENCOURAGES ISRAEL’S PEOPLE TO COME BACK TO HIM
V1 People in Israel, listen to this song.
‘This funeral song is ab...
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These verses closely resemble the condemnation which Isaiah pronounces
(Amos 1:10) upon mere ritual, however punctilious, mere profession of
orthodoxy, however exacting, which was not accompanied by
r...
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שָׂנֵ֥אתִי מָאַ֖סְתִּי חַגֵּיכֶ֑ם וְ
לֹ֥א אָרִ֖יחַ...
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2. FOR WORSHIP, JUSTICE
Amos 5:1
In the next of these groups of oracles Amos continues his attack on
the national ritual, and now contrasts it with the service of God in
public life-the relief of the...
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A DARK DAY FOR HYPOCRITES
Amos 5:16-27
Mighty sins had been committed, and mighty judgments were at hand. The
oppression of the poor, Amos 5:11; the erection of elegant dwellings
from unrighteous ex...
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The third discourse was a description of Jehovah's judgment. This
opened with a lamentation for the virgin of Israel, "The virgin of
Israel is fallen, she shall no more rise, she is cast down upon her...
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_Festivities. Some were still observed, chap. iv. 4._...
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We have here the Lord's threatenings concerning the captivity of the
people, and which we know came to pass. Stephen, the first martyr,
made a quotation from this scripture. Acts 7:42. But what I
part...
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Lectures on the Minor Prophets.
W. Kelly.
"The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw
concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days
of Jeroboam the...
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Here the Prophet, anticipating an objection, shows that the Israelites
deceived themselves, for they believed that God was pacified by their
sacrifices: he declares all these to be useless; not only,...
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After having deplored the ruin of Israel, He contrasts the places of
their false worship with Jehovah, the Creator, and exhorts them to
come unto Him and live. But Israel put off the thought of the ev...
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I HATE, I DESPISE YOUR FEAST DAYS,.... Kimchi thinks this is said, and
what follows, with respect to the kingdom of the house of Judah, which
kept the feast the Lord commanded; but it is not necessary...
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I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn
assemblies.
Ver. 21. _I hate, I despise your feast days_] Wherewith ye think to
stop my mouth and to make me your debtor; saying...
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_I hate and despise your feast-days_ This and the three following
verses are the same in sense with Isaiah 1:11, and the other texts
referred to in the margin, on which the reader is desired to consul...
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WOE UPON FOOLS AND HYPOCRITES...
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I hate, I despise, your feast-days, as the Lord calls out to them, AND
I WILL NOT SMELL IN YOUR SOLEMN ASSEMBLIES, by taking pleasure in the
odor of the offerings brought by them....
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SMELL IN YOUR SOLEMN ASSEMBLIES:
Or, smell your holy days...
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18-27 Woe unto those that desire the day of the Lord's judgments,
that wish for times of war and confusion; as some who long for
changes, hoping to rise upon the ruins of their country! but this
shou...
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I HATE, I DESPISE YOUR FEAST DAYS; impure and unholy they are,
whatever they seem to be, and therefore the Lord hateth them, they are
abomination to him, PROVERBS 15:8 ISAIAH 1:13,14. Worthless and
co...
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Amos 5:21 hate H8130 (H8804) despise H3988 (H8804) days H2282 savor
H7306 (H8686) assemblies H6116
hate -
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THE FIRST WOE, CONCERNING THE DAY OF YHWH (AMOS 5:18).
A ‘woe' was the opposite of a ‘blessed be you of YHWH'. It was the
announcing of troubles and disaster that would come on His people
directly fro...
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THE DAY OF DARKNESS IS COMING BECAUSE OF THE FALSITY OF THEIR WORSHIP
IN THAT WHILE THEY WORSHIP THEY IGNORE JUSTICE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS (AMOS
5:21).
Amos now emphatically brings out where their error l...
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Amos 5:4. _For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye
me, and ye shall live:_
And that it just the message of God to professing Christians now:
«Seek ye me.» Get away from your mere ce...
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CONTENTS: God's lamentation over Israel and captivity foretold. The
day of the Lord.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: If men will not take a right course to obtain the favor of
God, God will take an eff...
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Amos 5:2. _The virgin of Israel is fallen._ Babylon, which had never
been stormed by a besieging army, is called a virgin. Isaiah 47:1.
Thus Israel, whose kingdom had never yet been wholly subdued, is...
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_I hate, I despise your feast days._
THE DIVINELY ABHORRENT AND THE DIVINELY DEMANDED
I. The Divinely abhorrent. The same aversion from the ceremonial
observances of the insincere and rebellious Isra...
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AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 5:21 God hates Israel’s religious FEASTS and
SOLEMN ASSEMBLIES, their offerings (v. Amos 5:22), and songs (v....
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
Amos 5:21.] Festivals and sacrifices will not avert judgments. YOUR
FEASTS] of human origin, not Divine appointment (Isaiah 1:10); the
expression of Divine abhorrence is most emphat...
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EXPOSITION
VERSE 1-CH. 6:14
§ 8. _Third address_:_ the prophet utters a lamentation over the fall
of Israel_. (Amos 6:1.) He calls her to repentance, while he shows
wherein she has declined from the...
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Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation
(Amos 5:1),
Weeping over the house of Israel now.
The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is
forsaken upon her l...
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I hate — Impure and unholy as they are. Will not smell — A savour,
of rest or delight, I will not accept and be pleased with....