Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version “Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, people of Israel? New Living Translation “Was it to me you were bringing sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, Israel? English Standard Version “Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? Berean Standard Bible Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? King James Bible Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? New King James Version “Did you offer Me sacrifices and offerings In the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? New American Standard Bible “Did you present Me with sacrifices and grain offerings in the wilderness for forty years, house of Israel? NASB 1995 “Did you present Me with sacrifices and grain offerings in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel? NASB 1977 “Did you present Me with sacrifices and grain offerings in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel? Legacy Standard Bible “Did you present Me with sacrifices and grain offerings in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel? Amplified Bible “Did you bring Me sacrifices and grain offerings during those forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? [Certainly not!] Christian Standard Bible “House of Israel, was it sacrifices and grain offerings that you presented to me during the forty years in the wilderness? Holman Christian Standard Bible House of Israel, was it sacrifices and grain offerings that you presented to Me during the 40 years in the wilderness? American Standard Version Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? Contemporary English Version Israel, for forty years you wandered in the desert, without bringing offerings or sacrifices to me. English Revised Version Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? GOD'S WORD® Translation Did you bring me sacrifices and grain offerings in the desert for 40 years, nation of Israel? Good News Translation "People of Israel, I did not demand sacrifices and offerings during those forty years that I led you through the desert. International Standard Version "Was it to me that you brought offerings and gifts in the desert for 40 years, house of Israel? Majority Standard Bible Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? NET Bible You did not bring me sacrifices and grain offerings during the forty years you spent in the wilderness, family of Israel. New Heart English Bible "Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel? Webster's Bible Translation Have ye offered to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? World English Bible “Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel? Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionDid you bring sacrifices and offerings near to Me, "" In a wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? Young's Literal Translation Sacrifices and offering did ye bring nigh to Me, In a wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? Smith's Literal Translation Did ye bring near to me sacrifices and gifts in the desert forty years, O house of Israel? Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleDid you offer victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, O house of Israel? Catholic Public Domain Version Was it you who offered victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, house of Israel? New American Bible Did you bring me sacrifices and grain offerings for forty years in the desert, O house of Israel? New Revised Standard Version Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleDid you offer to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel? Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Have you brought sacrifice and offering to me forty years in the wilderness, house of Israel? OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917Did ye bring unto Me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? Brenton Septuagint Translation Have ye offered to me victims and sacrifices, O house of Israel, forty years in the wilderness? Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Day of the LORD…24But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. 25Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? 26You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.… Cross References Acts 7:42-43 But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? / You have taken along the tabernacle of Molech and the star of your god Rephan, the idols you made to worship. Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.’ Jeremiah 7:22-23 For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices, / but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you. Isaiah 1:11-14 “What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats. / When you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you—this trampling of My courts? / Bring your worthless offerings no more; your incense is detestable to Me. New Moons, Sabbaths, and convocations—I cannot endure iniquity in a solemn assembly. ... Hosea 6:6 For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings. Micah 6:6-8 With what shall I come before the LORD when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves? / Would the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I present my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? / He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God? Matthew 9:13 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” Matthew 12:7 If only you had known the meaning of ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent. Psalm 40:6-8 Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require. / Then I said, “Here I am, I have come—it is written about me in the scroll: / I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.” Psalm 50:8-15 I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me. / I have no need for a bull from your stall or goats from your pens, / for every beast of the forest is Mine—the cattle on a thousand hills. ... 1 Samuel 15:22 But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams. Mark 12:33 and to love Him with all your heart and with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself. This is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.” Hebrews 10:5-10 Therefore, when Christ came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You prepared for Me. / In burnt offerings and sin offerings You took no delight. / Then I said, ‘Here I am, it is written about Me in the scroll: I have come to do Your will, O God.’” ... Romans 12:1 Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. Isaiah 66:3-4 Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who slays a man; whoever sacrifices a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; whoever presents a grain offering is like one who offers pig’s blood; whoever offers frankincense is like one who blesses an idol. Indeed, they have chosen their own ways and delighted in their abominations. / So I will choose their punishment and I will bring terror upon them, because I called and no one answered, I spoke and no one listened. But they did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.” Jeremiah 6:20 What use to Me is frankincense from Sheba or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable; your sacrifices do not please Me.” Treasury of Scripture Have you offered to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? Leviticus 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. Deuteronomy 32:17-19 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not… Joshua 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. Jump to Previous Beasts Desert Forty Grain House Israel Meal Nigh Oblations Offered Offering Offerings Present Sacrifices Waste WildernessJump to Next Beasts Desert Forty Grain House Israel Meal Nigh Oblations Offered Offering Offerings Present Sacrifices Waste WildernessAmos 5 1. A lamentation for Israel.4. An exhortation to repentance. 21. God rejects their hypocritical service. Did you bring Me This phrase challenges the Israelites to reflect on their past actions and intentions. The Hebrew root for "bring" is "נָשָׂא" (nasa), which can mean to lift, carry, or present. In this context, it implies an offering or presentation to God. The rhetorical question suggests that the Israelites' sacrifices were not genuinely for God, highlighting a disconnect between their religious rituals and true worship. Historically, this calls to mind the wilderness period, a time of testing and reliance on God, where the focus was on obedience and faith rather than ritualistic offerings. sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness O house of Israel EXCURSUS B (Amos 5:26). Three obscure points render this verse one of the most difficult in the Old Testament. 1. As to tense. The interpretation to which preference has been given in the commentary on the text--the time being regarded as future--has been decided on grounds of grammatical usage only. But certainly the larger number of commentators have rendered the verb as a past tense, "But ye bore the tabernacle," &c., the time referred to being that of the desert wanderings. This view is upheld by Hitzig, Kuenen, Keil, Henderson, and also by R. S. Poole. It is also supported by the LXX. . . . Verse 25. - Ye have always been idolaters, corrupters of pure worship. Your service in the wilderness, when you were little exposed to external influence, was no more true and faithful than that which you offer now; that was as unacceptable as this. Have ye offered unto me? Did ye offer unto me? The answer expected is "No;" i.e. you did not so really, because your worship was mixed with falsehood, and was not offered simply and genuinely to me. It is certain, too, that during the sojourn in the wilderness sacrificial worship fell greatly into desuetude, as we know that the rite of circumcision was suspended (Joshua 5:5-7), the Passover was not duly celebrated, and Joshua urged the people to put away the strange gods from among them (Joshua 24:23). Moses, too, doubtless with a view to existing practices, warns them against worshipping the heavenly bodies (Deuteronomy 4:19), and offering sacrifice unto devils (seirim), "after whom they had gone a-whoring" (Leviticus 17:7). The prophets, too, allude to the idolatry practised in the desert (see Ezekiel 20:7-26; Hosea 9:10). But to argue (as some neologians do) from this passage of Amos that the Israelites during those forty years knew nothing of Jehovah, or that Amos himself denies that they offered him any worship, is absurd, seeing that the prophet presupposes the fact, and blames them for corrupting the Divine service and mingling the prescribed and enacted ritual with idolatrous accretions. Sacrifices; slain, bloody sacrifices. Offerings; bloodless sacrifices, meal offerings.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Did you bringהִֽגַּשְׁתֶּם־ (hig·gaš·tem-) Verb - Hifil - Perfect - second person masculine plural Strong's 5066: To draw near, approach Me לִ֧י (lî) Preposition | first person common singular Strong's Hebrew sacrifices הַזְּבָחִ֨ים (haz·zə·ḇā·ḥîm) Article | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 2077: A slaughter, the flesh of an animal, a sacrifice and offerings וּמִנְחָ֜ה (ū·min·ḥāh) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 4503: A donation, tribute, a sacrificial offering forty אַרְבָּעִ֥ים (’ar·bā·‘îm) Number - common plural Strong's 705: Forty years שָׁנָ֖ה (šā·nāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 8141: A year in the wilderness, בַמִּדְבָּ֛ר (ḇam·miḏ·bār) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 4057: A pasture, a desert, speech O house בֵּ֥ית (bêṯ) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 1004: A house of Israel? יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ (yiś·rā·’êl) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc Links Amos 5:25 NIVAmos 5:25 NLT Amos 5:25 ESV Amos 5:25 NASB Amos 5:25 KJV Amos 5:25 BibleApps.com Amos 5:25 Biblia Paralela Amos 5:25 Chinese Bible Amos 5:25 French Bible Amos 5:25 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Amos 5:25 Did you bring to me sacrifices (Amo. 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