Amos 5:25
Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
KJV
Numquid hostias et sacrificium obtulistis mihi in deserto quadraginta annis, domus Israël ?
Vulgate
μὴ σφάγια καὶ θυσίας προσηνέγκατέ μοι ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ μ’ ἔτη, οἶκος Ἰσραήλ;
LXX
Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
ASV
הַ/זְּבָחִ֨ים וּ/מִנְחָ֜ה הִֽגַּשְׁתֶּם לִ֧/י בַ/מִּדְבָּ֛ר אַרְבָּעִ֥ים שָׁנָ֖ה בֵּ֥ית יִשְׂרָאֵֽל
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אַרְבָּעִ֥ים
'rb'ym
adjective · 135×
בֵּ֣ית
byt
noun · 2032×
ה
h
verb · 124×
זֶ֣בַח
zbch
noun · 160×
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל
yshr'l
proper_noun · 2486×
מִנְחָ֖ה
mnchh
noun · 211×
מִּדְבָּ֑ר
mdbr
noun · 270×
שָׁנָ֔ה
shnh
verb · 877×
Intertextual echoes
Quoted or echoed by 1 later passage.
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Acts 7:42 · adapted"Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?"Amos: did you offer me sacrifices in the wilderness — Stephen's speech
Historic Christian voices
6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§2100Outward sacrifice, to be genuine, must be the expression of spiritual sacrifice: "The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit...."17 The prophets of the Old Covenant often denounced sacrifices that were not from the heart or not coupled with love of neighbor.18 Jesus recalls the words of the prophet Hosea: "I desire mercy, and not sacrifice."19 The only perfect sacrifice…
At first God deemed it sufficient to inscribe the natural law, or the Decalogue, upon the hearts of men; but afterwards He found it necessary to bridle, with the yoke of the Mosaic law, the desires of the Jews, who were abusing their liberty; and even to add some special commands, because of the hardness of their hearts. 1. They (the Jews) had therefore a law, a course of disci…
Cross-references
- Acts 7:42 — Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of f
- Acts 7:42 — Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of f
- Acts 13:18 — And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.
- Deut 4:19 — And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD
- Ezek 20:8 — But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out
- Isa 43:23 — Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.
- Josh 24:14 — Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.
- Lev 17:7 — And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.
- Neh 9:18 — Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;
- Neh 9:21 — Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
- Neh 9:21 — Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
- Num 28:6 — It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.