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King James Version

Amos 4:5

And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord God .

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Bread;   Idolatry;   Leaven (Yeast);   Offerings;   Tithes;   Scofield Reference Index - Leaven;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Hypocrisy;   Legalism;   Motives;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Leaven;   Pentateuch;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Amos;   Pilgrimage;   Prayer;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Amos;   Leaven;   Sacrifice and Offering;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Amos (1);   Calf, Golden;   Criticism (the Graf-Wellhausen Hypothesis);   Leaven;   Like;   Pentateuch, the Samaritan;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Incense;   Leaven;   Meal-Offering;   Peace-Offering;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Offer leavened bread as a thank offering,and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings,for that is what you Israelites love to do!
Hebrew Names Version
Offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, And proclaim free will offerings and brag about them: For this pleases you, you children of Yisra'el," says the Lord GOD.
English Standard Version
offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim freewill offerings, publish them; for so you love to do, O people of Israel!" declares the Lord God .
New American Standard Bible
"Offer a thanksgiving offering also from that which is leavened, And proclaim voluntary offerings, make them known. For so you love to do, you sons of Israel," Declares the Lord GOD.
New Century Version
Offer bread made with yeast as a sacrifice to show your thanks, and brag about the special offerings you bring, because this is what you love to do, Israelites," says the Lord God .
Amplified Bible
"Offer [by burning] a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, And [boastfully] proclaim freewill offerings, announce them. For this you so love to do, O children of Israel!" Says the Lord GOD.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And offer a thanksgiuing of leauen, publish & proclaime the free offrings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord God.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Offer a thank offering also from that which is leavened, And proclaim freewill offerings, make them known. For so you love to do, you sons of Israel," Declares the Lord GOD.
Legacy Standard Bible
And offer a thank offering also from that which is leavened,And call for freewill offerings; cause them to be heard about.For so you love to do, you sons of Israel,"Declares Lord Yahweh.
Berean Standard Bible
Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings. For that is what you children of Israel love to do," declares the LORD GOD.
Contemporary English Version
Bring offerings to show me how thankful you are. Gladly bring more offerings than I have demanded. You really love to do this. I, the Lord God, have spoken!
Complete Jewish Bible
burn leavened bread as a thank offering; brag in public about your voluntary offerings; because that's what you love to do, Isra'el!" says Adonai Elohim .
Darby Translation
and burn a thank-offering with leaven, and proclaim, publish, voluntary offerings: for this pleaseth you, children of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Easy-to-Read Version
And offer a thank offering made with yeast. Tell everyone about the freewill offerings. Israel, you love to do those things. So go and do them." This is what the Lord God said.
George Lamsa Translation
And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leavened bread, and vow your vows and fulfill them; for thus you have loved to do, O children of Israel, says the LORD God.
Good News Translation
Go on and offer your bread in thanksgiving to God, and brag about the extra offerings you bring! This is the kind of thing you love to do.
Lexham English Bible
And bring a thank offering of unleavened bread, and proclaim freewill offerings, pronounce them, for so you love to do, O people of Israel," is the declaration of my Lord Yahweh.
Literal Translation
and offer a sacrifice of a thanksgiving offering that is leavened. And cry out, call out the voluntary offerings! For so you love to do , sons of Israel, declares the Lord Jehovah.
American Standard Version
and offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim freewill-offerings and publish them: for this pleaseth you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Bible in Basic English
Let that which is leavened be burned as a praise-offering, let the news of your free offerings be given out publicly; for this is pleasing to you, O children of Israel, says the Lord.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim freewill-offerings and publish them; for so ye love to do, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
King James Version (1611)
And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiuing with leauen, and proclaime and publish the free offrings; for this liketh you, O yee children of Israel, saith the Lord God.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And offer a thankes geuing of leauen, publishe & proclayme the free offringes: for this liketh you O ye children of Israel, sayth the Lorde God.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they read the law without, and called for public professions: proclaim aloud that the children of Israel have loved these things, saith the Lord.
English Revised Version
and offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim freewill offerings and publish them: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
World English Bible
Offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, And proclaim free will offerings and brag about them: For this pleases you, you children of Israel," says the Lord Yahweh.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And sacrifice ye heriyng of breed maad sour, and clepe ye wilful offryngis, and telle ye; for ye, sones of Israel, wolden so, seith the Lord God.
Update Bible Version
and offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim freewill-offerings and publish them: for this pleases you, O you sons of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh.
Webster's Bible Translation
And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim [and] publish the free-offerings: for this pleaseth you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
New English Translation
Burn a thank offering of bread made with yeast! Make a public display of your voluntary offerings! For you love to do this, you Israelites." The sovereign Lord is speaking!
New King James Version
Offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, Proclaim and announce the freewill offerings; For this you love, You children of Israel!" Says the Lord GOD.
New Living Translation
Present your bread made with yeast as an offering of thanksgiving. Then give your extra voluntary offerings so you can brag about it everywhere! This is the kind of thing you Israelites love to do," says the Sovereign Lord .
New Life Bible
Give a thank gift of bread made with yeast. And make your free-will gifts known. For this is what you love to do, O people of Israel," says the Lord God.
New Revised Standard
bring a thank offering of leavened bread, and proclaim freewill offerings, publish them; for so you love to do, O people of Israel! says the Lord God .
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yea, burn thou incense, of that which is leavened, as a thank-offering, and proclaim ye freewill-offerings, let them be known, - for, so, ye love to have it , ye sons of Israel, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And offer a sacrifice of praise with leaven: and call free offerings, and proclaim it: for so you would do, O children of Israel, saith the Lord God.
Revised Standard Version
offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim freewill offerings, publish them; for so you love to do, O people of Israel!" says the Lord GOD.
Young's Literal Translation
And perfume with leaven a thank-offering, And proclaim willing gifts, sound ye! For so ye have loved, O sons of Israel, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ye made a thakofferinge off leuen, ye promised frewillofferinges, and proclamed them. Soch lust had ye, o ye children of Israel, sayeth the LORDE God.

Contextual Overview

1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink. 2 The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks. 3 And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the Lord . 4 Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years: 5 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord God .

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

offer a sacrifice: Heb. offer by burning, Leviticus 7:12, Leviticus 7:13, Leviticus 23:17

proclaim: Leviticus 22:18-21, Deuteronomy 12:6, Deuteronomy 12:7, Matthew 6:2

for: Psalms 81:12, Matthew 15:9, Matthew 15:13, Matthew 15:14, Matthew 23:23, Romans 1:28, 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12

this liketh you: Heb. so ye love, Hosea 9:1, Hosea 9:10

Reciprocal: Exodus 12:8 - unleavened Leviticus 22:29 - General 1 Kings 18:27 - Elijah 2 Chronicles 18:14 - Go ye up Isaiah 29:1 - add Isaiah 50:11 - walk Ezekiel 20:39 - Go ye Hosea 9:2 - floor Hosea 9:4 - neither Amos 5:22 - peace offerings

Cross-References

Genesis 4:10
And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
Genesis 4:11
And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
Genesis 31:2
And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.
Genesis 31:5
And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.
Numbers 16:15
And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the Lord , Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them.
Job 5:2
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
Psalms 20:3
Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.
Matthew 20:15
Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?
Acts 13:45
But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
Hebrews 11:4
By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven,.... Which some observe was contrary to the law, which forbids all leaven in a meat offering; or "burning" it in any offering, Leviticus 2:11; which the word t here used suggests was done by these idolaters, as well as eaten by them, their priests not liking to eat unleavened bread; but; though it was forbidden in the meat offering, was allowed, yea, ordered, with the sacrifice of thanksgiving, Leviticus 7:13. So Abarbinel understands it here, as what was according, to law, but ironically commanded to be offered to idols:

and proclaim [and] publish the free offerings; let all know of them when you make your freewill offerings, and invite them to partake of them:

for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord God; or ye love to offer such sacrifices to your idols, rather than to the Lord God; preferring these to him, and delighting more in the worship of them than of him.

t קטר "incendendo", Munster, Tigurine version; "incendito incensum", Vatablus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven - But amid this boastful service, all was self-will. In little or great, the calf-worship at Bethel, or the use of leaven in the sacrifice, they did as they willed. The prophet seems to have joined purposely the fundamental change, by which Jeroboam substituted the worship of nature for its God, and a minute alteration of the ritual, to show that one and the same temper, self-will, reigned in all, dictated all they did. The use of leaven in the things sacrificed was forbidden, out of a symbolic reason, that is, not in itself, but as representing something else. The Eastern leaven, like that used in France, consisting of what is sour, had the idea of decay and corruption connected with it. Hence, it was unfit to be offered to God. For whatever was the object of any sacrifice, whether of atonement or thanksgiving, perfection in its kind was essential to the idea of offering. Hence, it was expressly forbidden. “No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the Lord, shall be made with leaven, for ye shall burn no leaven in an offering of the Lord made by fire” (Leviticus 2:11; add. Leviticus 6:17). At other times it is expressly commanded, that “unleavened bread” should be used. In two cases only, in which the offering was not to be burned, were offerings to be made of leavened bread:

(1) the two loaves of first-fruits at Pentecost Leviticus 23:17, and

(2) an offering with which the thank offering was accompanied, and which was to be the priest’s Leviticus 7:13-14.

The special meat offering of the thank offering was to be without leaven Leviticus 7:12. To “offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven” was a direct infringement of God’s appointment. It proceeded from the same frame of mind, as the breach of the greatest. Self-will was their only rule. What they willed, they kept; and what they willed, they brake. Amos bids them then go on, as they did in their willfulness, breaking God’s commands of set purpose, and keeping them by accident.

Rup.: “This is a most grave mode of speaking, whereby He now saith, ‘Come and do so and so, and He Himself who saith this, hateth those same deeds of theirs. He so speaketh, not as willing, but as abandoning not as inviting, but as expelling; not in exhortation but in indignation. He subjoins then, (as the case required,) ‘for so ye loved.’ As if He said, ‘I therefore say, ‘come to Bethel’ where is your god, your calf, because ‘so ye loved,’ and hitherto ye have come. I therefore say, ‘transgress,’ because ye do transgress, and ye will to transgress. I say, ‘come to Gilgal,’ where were idols (Judges 3:19, English margin) long before Jeroboam’s calves, because ye come and ye will to come. I say, ‘multiply transgressions,’ because ye do multiply it, and yet will to multiply it. I say, ‘bring your sacrifices,’ because ye offer them and ye will to offer them, to whom ye ought not. I say, ‘offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven,’ because ye so do, and ye will do it, leavened as ye are with ‘the old leaven of malice and wickedness,’ against the whole authority of the holy and spiritual law, which forbiddeth to offer in sacrifice anything leavened.

This pleaseth your gods, that ye be leavened, and without ‘the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth’ 1 Corinthians 5:8. To them then ‘sacrifice the sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven,’ because to Me ye, being sinners, cannot offer a seemly sacrifice of praise. And so doing, ‘proclaim and publish the free offerings,’ for so ye do, and so ye will to do, honoring the sacrifices which ye offer to your calves with the same names, whereby the authority of the law nameth those which are offered unto Me; ‘burnt offerings,’ and ‘peace offerings;’ and ‘proclaim’ them ‘with the sound of trumpet and harp, with timbrel and dancing, with strings and organ, upon the well turned cymbals and the loud cymbals’ Psalms 150:1-6, that so ye may be thought to have sung louder and stronger than the tribe of Judah or the house of David in the temple of the Lord, because ye are more.’ All these things are said, not with the intention of one willing, but with the indignation of one forsaking, as in many other instances. As that which the same Lord said to His betrayer; ‘what thou doest, do quickly’ John 13:27. And in the Revelations we read, ‘He that is unjust, let him be unjust still; and he that is filthy, let him be filthy still’ Revelation 22:11. These things, and the rest of the like sort, are not the words of one commanding, or, of His own Will, conceding, but permitting and forsaking. ‘For He was not ignorant, (Wisdom saith) (Wisdom Revelation 12:10) that they were a naughty generation, and their malice was inbred, and that their cogitation never would be changed. ‘“

Proclaim and publish the free offerings - o: “Account much of what ye offer to God, and think that ye do great things, as though ye honored God condignly, and were under no obligation to offer such gifts. The whole is said in irony. For some there are, who appreciate magnificently the gifts and services which they offer to God, and think they have attained to great perfection, as though they made an adequate return to the divine benefits, not weighing the infinite dignity of the Divine Majesty, the incomparable greatness of the divine benefits, the frailty of their own condition and the imperfection of their service. Against whom is that which the Saviour saith, ‘When ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants, we have done that which was our duty to do’ Luke 17:10. Hence, David saith ‘all things come of Thee, and of Thine own have we given Thee.’ 1 Chronicles 19:14.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Amos 4:5. Over a sacrifice of thanksgiving — To the senseless metal, and the unfeeling stock and stone images, from which ye never did, and never could receive any help. Proceed yet farther, and bring free-will offerings; testify superabundant gratitude to your wooden and metallic gods, to whom ye are under such immense imaginary obligations! Proclaim and publish these offerings, and set forth the perfections of the objects of your worship; and see what they can do for you, when I, Jehovah, shall send drought, and blasting, and famine, and pestilence, and the sword among you.


 
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