John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Amos 5:26
But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Mo ,.... The god of the Ammonites; See Gill on Amos 1:13 ; and See Gill on Jeremiah 7:31 ; called theirs, because they also worshipped it, and caused their seed to pass through the fire to it; and which was carried by them in a shrine, or portable tent or chapel. Or it may be rendered, "but ye have borne Siccuth your king" F16 סכות מלככם "Siccuth regem vestrum", Munster, Montanus, Vatablus, Calvin, Mercerus. ; and so Siccuth may be taken... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 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, their hypocritical services were to God. They had their feast-days at Bethel, in imitation of those at Jerusalem, in which they pretended to rejoice before God. They had their solemn assemblies for religious worship, in which they put on the gravity of those who come before God as his people come,... read more