Amos 5:21

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

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Contextual Overview

Bible Verse Review
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hate: Proverbs 15:8, Proverbs 21:27, Proverbs 28:9, Isaiah 1:11-16, Isaiah 66:3, Jeremiah 6:20, Jeremiah 7:21-23, Hosea 8:13, Matthew 23:14

I will: Genesis 8:21, Leviticus 26:31, Ephesians 5:2, Philippians 4:18

smell in your solemn assemblies: or, smell your holy days

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 4:3 - it may save 1 Samuel 15:22 - Hath the Lord Psalms 51:16 - delightest Psalms 51:17 - thou Isaiah 1:14 - my soul Isaiah 43:23 - honoured Isaiah 61:8 - I hate Hosea 2:11 - her feast Hosea 5:6 - they Hosea 6:6 - I desired Malachi 1:10 - I have Malachi 1:13 - should I accept Matthew 5:23 - thou Mark 12:33 - is more Luke 16:15 - for John 18:28 - and they Acts 17:25 - is 1 Timothy 4:8 - bodily Hebrews 10:4 - not Hebrews 10:5 - Sacrifice

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Gill's Notes on the 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 so to understand it; for doubtless the ten tribes imitated the worship at Jerusalem, and kept the feasts as the Jews did there, in the observance of which they trusted; but the Lord rejects their vain confidence, and lets them know that these were no ways acceptable to him; and were so far from atoning for their sins, that they were hated, abhorred, and despised by him, being observed in such a manner and with such a view as they were;

and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies; a sweet savour of rest, as in Genesis 8:21; take no pleasure in their duties and services performed, in their solemn assemblies convened together for religious purposes, nor accept of them; but, on the contrary, dislike and abhor them; see Isaiah 1:11.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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” of solemn “joy” and the “restraint” of its “solemn assemblies” , which all were constrained to keep, abstaining from all servile work. They offered “whole burnt offerings,” the token of self-sacrifice, in which the sacrificer retained nothing to himself, but gave the whole freely to God. They offered also “peace offerings,” as tokens of the willing thankfulness of souls at peace with God. What they offered, was the best of its kind, “fatted beasts.” Hymns of praise, full-toned chorus, instrumental music! What was missing, Israel thought, to secure them the favor of God? Love and obedience. “If ye love Me, keep My commandments.” And so those things, whereby they hoped to propitiate God, were the object of His displeasure. “I hate, I despise, I will not accept” with good pleasure; “I will not regard,” look toward, “I will not hear, will not smell.” The words, “I will not smell,” reminded them of that threat in the law” Leviticus 26:31, “I will make your cities waste and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors.” In so many ways does God declare that He would not accept or endure, what they all the while were building upon, as grounds of their acceptance. And yet so secure were they, that the only sacrifice which they did not offer, was the sin or trespass offering. Worshiping “nature,” not a holy, Personal, God, they had no sense of unholiness, for which to plead the Atoning Sacrifice to come. Truly each Day of Judgment unveils much self-deceit. How much more the Last!

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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 refer to the three annual festivals which were still observed in a certain way among the Israelites.