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Amos 5

Amos 5:25 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Have ye offered
nagash (Hebrew #5066)
to be or come (causatively, bring) near (for any purpose); euphemistically, to lie with a woman; as an enemy, to attack; relig. to worship; causatively, to present; figuratively, to adduce an argument; by reversal, to stand back
KJV usage: (make to) approach (nigh), bring (forth, hither, near), (cause to) come (hither, near, nigh), give place, go hard (up), (be, draw, go) near (nigh), offer, overtake, present, put, stand.
Pronounce: naw-gash'
Origin: a primitive root
unto me sacrifices
zebach (Hebrew #2077)
properly, a slaughter, i.e. the flesh of an animal; by implication, a sacrifice (the victim or the act)
KJV usage: offer(- ing), sacrifice.
Pronounce: zeh'-bakh
Origin: from 2076
v and offerings
minchah (Hebrew #4503)
a donation; euphemistically, tribute; specifically a sacrificial offering (usually bloodless and voluntary)
KJV usage: gift, oblation, (meat) offering, present, sacrifice.
Pronounce: min-khaw'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to apportion, i.e. bestow
in the wilderness
midbar (Hebrew #4057)
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
KJV usage: desert, south, speech, wilderness.
Pronounce: mid-bawr'
Origin: from 1696 in the sense of driving
forty
'arba`iym (Hebrew #705)
forty
KJV usage: -forty.
Pronounce: ar-baw-eem'
Origin: multiple of 702
years
shaneh (Hebrew #8141)
from 8138; a year (as a revolution of time)
KJV usage: + whole age, X long, + old, year(X -ly).
Pronounce: shaw-neh'
Origin: (in plura or (feminine) shanah {shaw-naw'}
, O house
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
of Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
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Deut. 32:17‑19• 17They sacrificed unto demons who are not +God; To gods whom they knew not, To new ones, who came newly up, Whom your fathers revered not.
 18Of the Rock that begot thee wast thou unmindful, And thou hast forgotten *God who brought thee forth.
 19And Jehovah saw it, and despised them, Because of the provoking of his sons and of his daughters. (Deut. 32:17‑19)
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Ezek. 20:8,24• 8But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: none of them cast away the abominations of his eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I thought to pour out my fury upon them, so as to accomplish mine anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
 24because they performed not mine ordinances, and rejected my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols. (Ezek. 20:8,24)

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Cross References

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Lev. 17:7• 7And they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices unto demons, after whom they go a whoring. This shall be an everlasting statute unto them for their generations. (Lev. 17:7)
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Deut. 32:17‑19• 17They sacrificed unto demons who are not +God; To gods whom they knew not, To new ones, who came newly up, Whom your fathers revered not.
 18Of the Rock that begot thee wast thou unmindful, And thou hast forgotten *God who brought thee forth.
 19And Jehovah saw it, and despised them, Because of the provoking of his sons and of his daughters. (Deut. 32:17‑19)
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Josh. 24:14• 14And now fear Jehovah and serve him in perfectness and in truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the river, and in Egypt; and serve Jehovah. (Josh. 24:14)
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Neh. 9:18,21• 18Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy god that brought thee up out of Egypt! and they had wrought great provocation,
 21Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing; their clothes grew not old, and their feet swelled not. (Neh. 9:18,21)
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Isa. 43:23‑24• 23thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt-offerings, neither hast thou glorified me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to toil with an oblation, nor wearied thee with incense.
 24Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices; but thou hast made me to toil with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities. (Isa. 43:23‑24)
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Ezek. 20:8,16,24• 8But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: none of them cast away the abominations of his eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I thought to pour out my fury upon them, so as to accomplish mine anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
 16because they rejected mine ordinances and walked not in my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
 24because they performed not mine ordinances, and rejected my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols. (Ezek. 20:8,16,24)
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Hos. 9:9‑10• 9They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
 10I found Israel as grapes in the wilderness; as first-ripe fruit on the fig-tree, I saw your fathers at the beginning: they went to Baal-Peor, and separated themselves unto that shame, and became abominations like their lover. (Hos. 9:9‑10)
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Zech. 7:5• 5Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye really fast unto me, even unto me? (Zech. 7:5)
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Acts 7:42‑43• 42But God turned and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, Have ye offered me victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
 43Yea, ye took up the tent of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, the forms which ye made to do homage to them; and I will transport you beyond Babylon. (Acts 7:42‑43)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and oblations in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?