SEV Biblia, Chapter 5:25
¿Por ventura me ofrecisteis sacrificios y presente en el desierto en cuarenta años, casa de Israel?
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Amos 5:25
Verse 25. Have ye offered unto me sacrifices] Some have been led to think that "during the forty years which the Israelites spent in the wilderness, between Egypt and the promised land, they did not offer any sacrifices, as in their circumstances it was impossible; they offered none because they had none." But such people must have forgotten that when the covenant was made at Sinai, there were burnt-offerinys and peace-offerings of oxen sacrificed to the Lord, Exod. xxiv. 5; and at the setting up of the tabernacle the twelve princes of the twelve tribes offered each a young bullock, a ram, and a lamb, for a burnt-offering; a kid for a sin- offering; two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, and five lambs, for a peace-offering, Num. vii. 12, &c.; which amounted to an immense number of victims offered in the course of the twelve days during which this feast of the dedication lasted. At the consecration of priests, bullocks and rams to a considerable number were offered, see Lev. viii. 1, &c.; but they were not offered so regularly, nor in such abundance, as they were after the settlement in the promised land. Learned men, therefore, have considered this verse as speaking thus: Did ye offer to me, during forty years in the wilderness, sacrifices in such a way as was pleasing to me? Ye did not; for your hearts were divided, and ye were generally in a spirit of insurrection or murmuring.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 25. Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings , etc.] No; they were not offered to God, but to devils, to the golden calf, and to the host of heaven: so their fathers did in the wilderness forty years ; where sacrifices were omitted during that time, a round number for a broken one, it being about thirty eight years; and these their children were imitators of them, and offered sacrifice to idols too, and therefore deserved punishment as they: even ye, O house of Israel ? the ten tribes, who are here particularly charged and threatened; (see Gill on “ Acts 7:42”).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 18-27 - Woe unto those that desire the day of the Lord's judgments, that wis for times of war and confusion; as some who long for changes, hoping to rise upon the ruins of their country! but this should be so great desolation, that nobody could gain by it. The day of the Lord will be dark, dismal, gloomy day to all impenitent sinners. When God makes day dark, all the world cannot make it light. Those who are no reformed by the judgments of God, will be pursued by them; if the escape one, another stands ready to seize them. A pretence of piety i double iniquity, and so it will be found. The people of Israel copie the crimes of their forefathers. The law of worshipping the Lord ou God, is, Him only we must serve. Professors thrive so little, becaus they have little or no communion with God in their duties. They wer led captive by Satan into idolatry, therefore God caused them to go into captivity among idolaters __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
הזבחים 2077 ומנחה 4503 הגשׁתם 5066 לי במדבר 4057 ארבעים 705 שׁנה 8141 בית 1004 ישׂראל׃ 3478
