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Amos 5:21-26

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 ancestors offered no sacrifices, without forfeiting Jehovah's regard; your mistake is a fatal one, and its end will be exile.

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See also Amos 5:21-26 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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”...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    I HATE, &c. Compare Proverbs 21:27; Isaiah 1:11.Jeremiah 6:20. I WILL NOT SMELL, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FEAST-DAYS— _Sacrifices._...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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 -...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    שָׂנֵ֥אתִי מָאַ֖סְתִּי חַגֵּיכֶ֑ם וְ לֹ֥א אָרִ֖יחַ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Festivities. Some were still observed, chap. iv. 4._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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,...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    WOE UPON FOOLS AND HYPOCRITES...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    SMELL IN YOUR SOLEMN ASSEMBLIES: Or, smell your holy days...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Amos 5:21 hate H8130 (H8804) despise H3988 (H8804) days H2282 savor H7306 (H8686) assemblies H6116 hate -

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 5:21 God hates Israel’s religious FEASTS and SOLEMN ASSEMBLIES, their offerings (v. Amos 5:22), and songs (v....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ephesians 5:2; Genesis 8:21; Hosea 8:13; Isaiah 1:11; Isaiah 66:3;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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....

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