Amos 5:25
What does Amos 5:25 mean?
A plain-English look at Amos 5:25 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
KJV
King James Version · 1611Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Did you come to me with offerings of beasts and meal offerings in the waste land for forty years, O Israel?
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Sacrifices and offering did ye bring nigh to Me, In a wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, O house of Israel?
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and oblations in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Nehemiah 9:18
Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;
- Ezekiel 20:24
because they had not executed mine ordinances, but had rejected my statutes, and had profaned my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.
- Nehemiah 9:21
Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
- Deuteronomy 32:17
They sacrificed unto demons, which were no God, To gods that they knew not, To newgodsthat came up of late, Which your fathers dreaded not.
- Hosea 9:9
They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
- Zechariah 7:5
Speak 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 these seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?
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