Amos 5:21-23 NIV

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:18-27

The prophet enforces the threat by denouncing woe on those that trust to their covenant relation to God, expecting the day when he would punish the heathen for their sakes, and thinking that external, heartless worship was acceptable to him. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:21

Outward, formal worship will not avert the threatened danger or secure the favour of God in the day of visitation. Your feast days ( chaggim ); your feasts ; your counterfeit worship, the worship of the true God under an idol symbol (compare God's repudiation of merely formal worship in Isaiah 1:11-15 ). I will not smell; οὐ μὴ ἀσφρανθῶ θυσίας . No sweet savour ascends to God from such sacrifices; so the phrase is equivalent to "I will not accept," "I will take no delight... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:21-23

The autograph of the unreal. Wicked Israel, strange to say, was worshipping Israel still. Theirs was sanctimonious sinning. It was done more or less in a religious connection. It was accompanied, and attempted to be covered, by an unstinted dressing of pietistic cant. But it only smelled the more rank to Heaven. Unreal worship is no mitigation, but only an aggravation, of the guilt of unholy living. I. INSINCERITY IS OFTEN SCRUPULOUS ABOUT ALL THE CIRCUMSTANTIALS OF ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:21-23

Ceremonialism disdained. Although the Jewish religion prescribed, as is evident especially from the Book of Leviticus, innumerable observances, elaborate ritual, frequent and costly sacrifices, still nowhere are there to be found more disclaimers, more denunciations, of a merely ritual and ceremonial piety than in the Scriptures of the Old Testament. This is but one of many declarations that the true and living God will not accept any tribute of the hands which may be offered in lieu of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:21-24

The divinely abhorrer and the divinely demanded. "I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies," etc. Notice - I. THE DIVINELY ABHORRENT . What is that? Mere ceremonial religion; empty ritual. "I hate, I despise your feast days, and 1 will not smell in your solemn assemblies," etc. "The same aversion from the ceremonial observances of the insincere and rebellious Israelites which Jehovah here expresses he afterwards employed Isaiah to declare... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:22

They maintained the formal ritual of the Mosaic worship in their idolatry. The various offerings are here enumerated. Burnt offerings; ὁλοκαυτώματα ( Exodus 29:38 , Exodus 29:42 ; Numbers 28:9-11 ). Meat offerings ; θυσίας ; munera (Vulgate); Exodus 29:40 , Exodus 29:41 ; Le Exodus 2:1 . Peace offerings of your fat beasts; σωτηρίους ἐπιφανείας , "your grand peace offerings"; vota pinguium vestrorum (Vulgate); Le Exodus 3:1 , etc. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:23

The noise of thy songs. Their psalms and hymns of praise were mere noise in God's ear, and wearied him ( Isaiah 1:14 ; Isaiah 24:8 ; Ezekiel 26:13 ). Viols ( Amos 6:5 ); ὀργάνων . The nebel, usually translated "psaltery," was a kind of harp. Josephus ('Ant.,' 7.12. 3) describes it as having twelve strings, played by the fingers. Music, both instrumental and vocal, was used in the temple worship (see 1 Chronicles 16:42 ; 1 Chronicles 23:5 ; and 25.). read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 5:21

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... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 5:23

Take thou away from Me - Literally, “from upon Me,” that is, from being a burden to Me, a weight on Me. So God says by Isaiah, “your new moons and your appointed feasts My soul hateth; they are a burden upon Me; I am weary to bear them” Isaiah 1:14. Their “songs” and hymns were but a confused, tumultuous, “noise,” since they had not the harmony of love.For - (And) the melody of thy viols I will not hear - Yet the “nebel,” probably a sort of harp, was almost exclusively consecrated to the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 5:21-24

Amos 5:21-24. I hate and despise your feast-days This and the three following verses are the same in sense with Isaiah 1:11-16, and the other texts referred to in the margin, on which the reader is desired to consult the notes. They all show of how little signification the external rites of religion are, unless they be accompanied with living faith in, and sincere love to God, and a universal obedience to his will; or without holiness of heart and life. Take away from me the noise of thy... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:18-27

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:21

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:21-23

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:21-23

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:21-24

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:22

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:23

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 5:21

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 5:23

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 5:21-24

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