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Amos 5:22

Amos 5:22
Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Though ye offer me burnt offerings, and your meat offerings, I will not accept them,.... The daily burnt offerings, morning and night, and others which were wholly the Lord's; and the "minchah", or…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

The peace-offerings of your fat beasts - מריאיכם merieychem probably means buffaloes; and so Bochart.

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Amos 5:21-27

The scope of these verses is to show how little God valued their shows of devotion, nay, how much he detested them, while they went on in their sins. Observe,

I. How unpleasing, nay, how displeasing,…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

The commonest and most popular kinds of sacrifice are particularized as rejected by Jehovah. The burnt- and peace-offerings are often mentioned in the historical books, and were frequently sacrificed…