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Verse Amos 5:24. _HAVE YE OFFERED UNTO ME SACRIFICES_] Some have been
led to think that "during the _forty years_ which the Israelites spent
in the wilderness, between Egypt and the promised land, th...
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HAVE YE OFFERED - (better, “Did ye offer”) unto Me sacrifices and
offerings? Israel justified himself to himself by his half-service.
This had been his way from the first. “Their heart was not whole
w...
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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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HAVE YE OFFERED, &C.... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. This is.
question in some codices and three early printed editions; but other
codices, and four early printed editions, read it as an affirm...
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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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DID YE BRING _unto me sacrifices_&c. The question evidently requires
a negative answer; and the emphatic words in the sentence are not, as
has been sometimes supposed, _unto me_(which hold in the Heb...
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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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HAVE YE OFFERED UNTO ME, &C.— See the note on Deuteronomy 12:8.
Jeremiah 7:22. These verses have made some people think that the
Israelites, in their forty years' wanderings through the wilderness,
co...
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RIGHTEOUSNESS DEMANDS REPENTANCERID RELIGION OF HYPOCRISY
TEXT: Amos 5:21-27
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I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your
solemn assemblies.
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Yea, though ye offer me you...
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Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness
forty years, O house of Israel?
HAVE YE OFFERED UNTO ME SACRIFICES AND OFFERINGS IN THE WILDERNESS
FORTY YEARS, O HOUSE OF ISRAEL?...
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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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HAVE YE OFFERED?] RV 'Did ye bring?' The answer is 'No.' So far is God
from being influenced by sacrifices that all the time when His
Providential care over them was most marked they were in the habit...
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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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_(_25, 26_)_ Much uncertainty belongs to the interpretation of these
verses and their connection in thought. Some commentators would treat
Amos 5:25 as a statement, and not a question, the first word...
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הַ זְּבָחִ֨ים וּ מִנְחָ֜ה
הִֽגַּשְׁתֶּם ־לִ֧י...
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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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Did you offer, &c. Except the sacrifices that were offered at the
first, in the dedication of the tabernacle, the Israelites offered no
sacrifices in the desert. (Challoner) --- They ceased after the...
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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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The Prophet shows in this place, that he not only reproved hypocrisy
in the Israelites in obtruding on God only external display of
ceremonies without any true religion in the heart; but that he also...
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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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HAVE YE OFFERED UNTO ME SACRIFICES AND OFFERINGS,.... No; they were
not offered to God, but to devils, to the golden calf, and to the host
of heaven: so their fathers did
IN THE WILDERNESS FORTY YEAR...
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Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness
forty years, O house of Israel?
Ver. 25. _Have ye offered unto me sacrifices, &c._] _i.e._ To me
only, and not to other gods also? d...
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_Have ye offered_ Or, _did you offer, unto me sacrifices and
offerings_ “Verborum emphasis in MIHI sita est,” says Spencer: The
emphasis of the passage lies in ME. “Did ye offer such sacrifices as
wer...
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Have ye offered unto Me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness,
during the journey from Egypt to the Promised Land, FORTY YEARS, O
HOUSE OF ISRAEL? Even at that time the people were guilty of idol...
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WOE UPON FOOLS AND HYPOCRITES...
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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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Their fathers and they, though at so great distance of time, are one
people, and so the prophet considers them in this place. HAVE YE
OFFERED? did you not frequently omit to offer, and yet were not
re...
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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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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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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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CRITICAL NOTES.]
Amos 5:25. Have] Lit. _Did ye_, equivalent to denial, some; others,
not entire suspension of sacrifice, but mixed with idolatry. From of
old they had been recreant to God. Their pres...
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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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Acts 7:42; Acts 7:43; Deuteronomy 32:17; Ezekiel 20:16; Ezekiel 20:24
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Have ye — Their fathers and they, tho' at so great a distance of
time, are one people, and so the prophet considers them. Unto me —
Was it to me, or to your idols, that you offered, even in the
wilder...