Amos 5:26

"“Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel?"

Key Reflection

Amos challenges the Israelites, reminding them that mere ritualistic sacrifices during their wandering in the wilderness did not satisfy God's demands. Instead, he seeks genuine repentance and adherence to his commands even as they had failed to do during their long journey.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

But ye have borne -Literally, “And ye bare the tabernacle of your Moloch” (literally, “your king,” from where the idol Moloch had its name.) He assigns the reason, why he had denied that they sacririced to God in the wilderness. “Did ye offer sacrifices unto Me, and ye bare?” that is, seeing that ye bare. The two were incompatible. Since they did “carry about the tabernacle of their king,” they did not really worship God. He whom they chose as “their king,” was their god. The “tabernacle” or “tent” was probably a little portable shrine, such as Demetrius the silversmith and those of his craft made for the little statues of their goddess DianaActs 19:24.

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