Amos 5:25
Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
Context
This verse from Amos Chapter 5 connects to 10 cross-references. A funeral lament over fallen Israel: the maiden Israel has fallen with no one to raise her up. God calls for seeking him rather than Bethel and declares that his day — the day of the Lord — is darkness …
Other Translations
Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
Sacrifices and offering did ye bring nigh to Me, In a wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
Did you come to me with offerings of beasts and meal offerings in the waste land for forty years, O Israel?
Cross References
And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be …
They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, …
And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your …
Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out …
Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, …
Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. …
Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: …
But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations …
Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after …