Amos 5:25

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

The sacrifices and meal-offering, ye brought near unto me, in the desert, for forty years O house of Israel;

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
"Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

Geneva Bible (1587)
Haue ye offered vnto me sacrifices and offrings in the wildernesse fourtie yeeres, O house of Israel?

Christian Standard Bible®
“House of Israel, was it sacrifices and grain offerings that you presented to me during the forty years in the wilderness?

Hebrew Names Version
"Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Yisra'el?

Darby Translation
Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and oblations in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

Easy-to-Read Version
Israel, you offered me sacrifices and offerings in the desert for 40 years.

Amplified Bible
"Did you bring Me sacrifices and grain offerings during those forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? [Certainly not!]

American Standard Version
Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

Berean Standard Bible
"Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

Contemporary English Version
Israel, for forty years you wandered in the desert, without bringing offerings or sacrifices to me.

Complete Jewish Bible
Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings in the desert forty years, house of Isra'el?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Did ye bring unto Me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

King James Version (1611)
Haue yee offered vnto mee sacrifices and offerings in the wildernesse fourtie yeeres, O house of Israel?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Haue ye offered vnto me sacrifices and offringes in the wildernesse fourtie yeres, O house of Israel?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Have ye offered to me victims and sacrifices, O house of Israel, forty years in the wilderness?

English Revised Version
Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

Lexham English Bible
Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings those forty years in the desert, O house of Israel?

Literal Translation
Have you brought near sacrifices and food offerings to Me forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

New Century Version
"People of Israel, you did not bring me sacrifices and offerings while you traveled in the desert for forty years.

New English Translation
You did not bring me sacrifices and grain offerings during the forty years you spent in the wilderness, family of Israel.

New King James Version
"Did you offer Me sacrifices and offerings In the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

New Living Translation
"Was it to me you were bringing sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, Israel?

New Life Bible
"O people of Israel, was it to Me you gave gifts of animals and grain on the altar for forty years in the desert?

New Revised Standard
Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, O house of Israel?

George Lamsa Translation
Did you offer to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel?

Good News Translation
"People of Israel, I did not demand sacrifices and offerings during those forty years that I led you through the desert.

Webster's Bible Translation
Have ye offered to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whether ye, the hous of Israel, offriden to me sacrifices for enemyes to be ouercomun, and sacrifice in desert fourti yeeris?

Young's Literal Translation
Sacrifices and offering did ye bring nigh to Me, In a wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

World English Bible
"Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel?

Revised Standard Version
"Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

Update Bible Version
Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

Bible in Basic English
Did you come to me with offerings of beasts and meal offerings in the waste land for forty years, O Israel?

New American Standard Bible
"Did you present Me with sacrifices and grain offerings in the wilderness for forty years, house of Israel?

King James Version
Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
O ye house of Israel, gaue ye me offeringes and sacrifices those xl. yeares longe in the wyldernesse?

THE MESSAGE
"Didn't you, dear family of Israel, worship me faithfully for forty years in the wilderness, bringing the sacrifices and offerings I commanded? How is it you've stooped to dragging gimcrack statues of your so-called rulers around, hauling the cheap images of all your star-gods here and there? Since you like them so much, you can take them with you when I drive you into exile beyond Damascus." God 's Message, God-of-the-Angel-Armies.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Did you present Me with sacrifices and grain offerings in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel?

Legacy Standard Bible
"Did you present Me with sacrifices and grain offerings in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel?

Contextual Overview

²¹ I hate, I despise your festivals, - and can scent no fragrance in your solemn feasts. ²² Nay, though ye cause to ascend unto me ascending-sacrifices, and your meal-offerings, I will not accept them , - nor, the peace-offering of your fat heifers, will I regard. ²³ Take thou away from me, the noise of thy songs, - Even the melody of thy harps, will I not hear. ²⁴ But let, justice, roll along like water, - and, righteousness, as a torrent over flowing. ²⁵ The sacrifices and meal-offering, ye brought near unto me, in the desert, for forty years O house of Israel; ²⁶ But ye carried the tent of your king-idol, and your Saturn-images, - the star of your gods, which ye made for yourselves: ²⁷ Therefore will I carry you into exile beyond Damascus, - saith Yahweh, God of hosts, is his name.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 17:7, Deuteronomy 32:17-19, Joshua 24:14, Nehemiah 9:18, Nehemiah 9:21, Isaiah 43:23, Isaiah 43:24, Ezekiel 20:8, Ezekiel 20:16, Ezekiel 20:24, Hosea 9:9, Hosea 9:10, Zechariah 7:5, Acts 7:42, Acts 7:43

Reciprocal: Numbers 28:6 - a continual Deuteronomy 4:19 - when thou Deuteronomy 12:8 - every man Deuteronomy 31:21 - I know 2 Kings 18:11 - the king Isaiah 17:3 - fortress Acts 13:18 - about

Cross-References

Genesis 4:18
And there was born to Enoch Irad, and, Irad, begat Mehujael, - and Mehujael, begat Methusael, - and Methusael, begat Lamech.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 years; where sacrifices were omitted during that time, a round number for a broken one, it being about thirty eight years; and these their children were imitators of them, and offered sacrifice to idols too, and therefore deserved punishment as they: even ye,

O house of Israel? the ten tribes, who are here particularly charged and threatened; :-.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 with God, neither abode they in His covenant” Psalms 78:37. He thought to be accepted by God, because he did a certain homage to Him. He acknowledged God in his own way. God sets before him another instance of this half-service and what it issued in; the service of that generation which He brought out of Egypt, and which left their bones in the wilderness. The idolatry of the ten tribes was the revival of the idolatry of the wilderness. The ten tribes owned as the forefathers of their worship those first idolaters . They identified themselves with sin which they did not commit. By approving it and copying it, they made that sin their own. As the Church of God in all times is one and the same, and Hosea says of God’s vision to Jacob, “there He spake with us” , so that great opposite camp, the city of the devil, has a continuous existence through all time. These idolaters were “filling up the measure of” their forefathers, and in the end of those forefathers, who perished in the wilderness where they sinned, they might behold their own. As God rejected the divided service of their forefathers, so He would their’s.

God does not say that they did not offer sacrifice at all, but that they did not offer unto “Him.” The “unto Me” is emphatic. If God is not served wholly and alone, He is not served at all. : “He regardeth not the offering, but the will of the offerer.” Some sacrifices were offered during the 38 years and a half, after God had rejected that generation, and left them to die in the wilderness. For the rebellion of Korah and his company was a claim to exercise the priesthood, as Aaron was exercising it Numbers 16:5, Numbers 16:9-10. When atonement was to be made, the “live coals” were already on the altar Numbers 16:46. These, however, were not the free-will offerings of the people, but the ordinance of God, performed by the priests. The people, in that they went after their idols, had no share in nor benefit from what was offered in their name. So Moses says, “they sacrificed to devils, not to God” Deuteronomy 32:17; and Ezekiel, “Their heart went after their idols” Ezekiel 20:16.

Those were the gods of their affections, whom they chose. God had taken them for His people, and had become their God, on the condition that they should not associate other gods with Him Exodus 20:2-5. Had they loved God who made them, they would have loved none beside Him. Since they chose other gods, these were the objects of their love. God was, at most, an object of their fear. As He said by Hosea, “their bread is for themselves, it shall not enter into the house of the Lord” Hosea 9:4, so here He asks, and by asking denies it, “Did ye offer unto Me?” Idolatry and heresy feign a god of their own. They do not own God as He has revealed Himself; and since they own not God as He is, the god whom they worship, is not the true God, but some creature of their own imaginings, such as they conceive God to be. Anti-Trinitarianism denies to God His essential Being, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Other heresies refuse to own His awful holiness and justice; others, the depth of His love and condescension. Plainly, their god is not the one true God. So these idolaters, while they associated with God gods of cruelty and lust, and looked to them for things which God in His holiness and love refused them, did not own God, as the One Holy Creator, the Sole Disposer of all things.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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, they did not offer any sacrifices, as in their circumstances it was impossible; they offered none because they had none." But such people must have forgotten that when the covenant was made at Sinai, there were burnt-offerings and peace-offerings of oxen sacrificed to the Lord, Exodus 24:5; and at the setting up of the tabernacle the twelve princes of the twelve tribes offered each a young bullock, a ram, and a lamb, for a burnt-offering; a kid for a sin-offering; two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, and five lambs, for a peace-offering, Numbers 7:12, c. which amounted to an immense number of victims offered in the course of the twelve days during which this feast of the dedication lasted. At the consecration of priests, bullocks and rams to a considerable number were offered, see Leviticus 8:1, c. but they were not offered so regularly, nor in such abundance, as they were after the settlement in the promised land. Learned men, therefore, have considered this verse as speaking thus: Did ye offer to me, during forty years in the wilderness, sacrifices in such a way as was pleasing to me? Ye did not; for your hearts were divided, and ye were generally in a spirit of insurrection or murmuring.