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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 4:4-5

Amos 4:4-5. Come to Beth-el The known place of the calf-worship; and transgress A strong irony, giving them over as incorrigible: like that of Ezekiel 20:39, Go ye, serve every man his idols. At Gilgal multiply transgression This place also, as well as Beth-el, was the scene of idolatry, as appears from the cotemporary Prophet Hosea. And bring your sacrifices every morning According to the law of the daily burnt- offering, Numbers 28:4, which they observed in the worship of the golden... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Amos 4:4-13

Religion without God (4:4-13)In words of cutting irony, Amos calls the people to the places of worship, encouraging them to continue their zealous but unspiritual religious exercises. The more they do so, the more they will increase their sin. They are corrupt, immoral, ungodly, greedy, lawless and violent, yet they love to make a show of their religious zeal. Amos mocks them by urging them to offer their sacrifices daily (normally, private citizens did this yearly), to offer their tithes every... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Amos 4:4

Come to Beth-el, &c. Here we have Divine irony, as though it meant "Fill up the measure of your iniquity". Compare Matthew 23:32 . transgress . . . transgression. Hebrew pasha'. App-44 . Beth-el . . . Gilgal. Compare Amos 3:14 ; Amos 5:5 .Hosea 4:15 ; Hosea 9:15 ; Hosea 12:11 . after three years . The ref is to the Pentateuch (Numbers 28:3 .Deuteronomy 14:28; Deuteronomy 14:28 ), App-92 ; not to "days", or to modern "Mohammedan pilgrimages". read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Amos 4:4

"Come to Bethel, and transgress; to Gilgal, and multiply transgressions; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes every three days; 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."False religion is the root of all social ills, and here the prophet poured out God's wrath upon the polluted, innovative, and unauthorized worship that marked the... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Amos 4:4

Amos 4:4. Come to Beth-el— This and the following verses are spoken ironically. See Hosea 4:15; Hosea 12:11. "Signalize your zeal and your diligence in those things which the Lord abhorreth most." Instead of, after three years, Houbigant reads with the Vulgate, in three days; which perhaps were those prescribed for the payment of their tithes. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Amos 4:4

4. God gives them up to their self-willed idolatry, that they may see how unable their idols are to save them from their coming calamities. So :-. Beth-el— ( :-). Gilgal— (Hosea 4:15; Hosea 9:15; Hosea 12:11). sacrifices every morning—as commanded in the law (Numbers 28:3; Numbers 28:4). They imitated the letter, while violating by calf-worship the spirit, of the Jerusalem temple-worship. after three years—every third year; literally, "after three (years of) days" (that is, the fullest... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Amos 4:4

Ironically the Lord told these sinful Israelites to go to Bethel but to transgress, not to worship. Such a call parodied the summons of Israel’s priests to come to the sanctuary to worship (cf. Psalms 95:6; Psalms 96:8-9; Psalms 100:2-4). Bethel was the most popular religious site in the Northern Kingdom, but the Lord looked at what the people did there as transgressing His law rather than worshipping Him. Gilgal, another worship center, was evidently the Gilgal where the Israelites had entered... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Amos 4:4-5

Religious hypocrisy 4:4-5 read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 4:1-13

The Second Address1-3. The heartless luxury of the rich women. 4, 5. The elaborate sacrifices and pilgrimages. 6-12. The failure of God’s chastisements to produce amendment.1. These pampered women are compared to cows grown fat through feeding in the rich pastures of Bashan (Numbers 32:1-5; Deuteronomy 32:14; Micah 7:14).Masters] RV ’lords,’ i.e. husbands (1 Peter 3:6). 2. He] RV ’they,’ i.e. the conquerors.Your posterity] RV ’your residue.’ Those farthest removed from danger will be dragged... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Amos 4:4

(4) Bethel . . . Gilgal.—In bitterly ironical words the prophet summons Israel to the calf-worship of Bethel, and to similar rites of bastard Jehovah-worship at Gilgal. These spots were full of sacred associations. The sarcastic force of the passage is lost in E.V. For “three years” read every three days. The law only required a tithe every third year (Deuteronomy 26:12); but here the prophet is lashing the people with hyperbolical irony for their excessive generosity to the base priests and... read more