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Amos 4:4
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"Datanglah ke Betel dan lakukanlah perbuatan jahat, ke Gilgal dan perhebatlah perbuatan jahat! Bawalah korban sembelihanmu pada waktu pagi, dan persembahan persepuluhanmu pada hari yang ketiga!
Pergilah kamu ke Bait-el dan raunglah di Gilgal; tambahkanlah jahat dengan jahat dan bawalah akan persembahanmu pada sebilang pagi dan perpuluhanmu pada tiap-tiap tiga hari.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Come: A bitter irony and sarcasm, addressed to the idolatrous Israelites. Amos 3:14, Ecclesiastes 11:9, Ezekiel 20:39, Joel 3:9-12, Matthew 23:32, Matthew 26:45, Mark 14:41
at Gilgal: Amos 5:5, Hosea 4:15, Hosea 9:15, Hosea 12:11
and bring: Numbers 28:3, Numbers 28:4
and your: Deuteronomy 14:28, Deuteronomy 14:29, Deuteronomy 26:12
three years: Heb. three years of days
Reciprocal: Genesis 14:20 - tithes Joshua 4:19 - Gilgal 1 Kings 18:27 - Elijah 2 Kings 2:23 - Bethel 2 Kings 23:4 - Bethel 1 Chronicles 16:40 - To offer 2 Chronicles 6:26 - there is no rain 2 Chronicles 18:14 - Go ye up Isaiah 29:1 - add Isaiah 50:11 - walk Ezekiel 23:19 - multiplied Hosea 9:4 - neither Amos 5:22 - peace offerings
Cross-References
And Cain went out from the presence of the Lorde, & dwelt in the lande of Nod, eastwarde from Eden.
Cain also knewe his wyfe, whiche conceaued and bare Henoch, and buyldyng a citie, he called the name of the same citie after the name of his sonne Henoch.
And Lamech toke vnto hym two wyues, the name of the one was Ada, and the name of the other was Sella.
And Ada bare Iabel, which was the father of such as dwel in the tentes, and of such as haue cattell.
And so it was, that when the sonne went downe, and it was twylyght, beholde a smokyng furnesse and a fire brande goyng betweene the said peeces.
And then thou shalt appoynt vnto the Lorde all that openeth the matrice, and euery firstlyng that commeth of a beast which thou hast, yf it be a male, it shalbe the Lordes.
And there came a fire out from before the Lorde, and consumed vpon the aulter the burnt offering & the fat: Whiche when all the people sawe, they gaue thankes, and fell on their faces.
And there came out a fire from the Lorde, and consumed the two hundred and fiftie men that offered incense.
Al the fat of the oyle, & al the fat of the wine, & of the wheate, which they shall offer vnto the Lorde for first fruites, the same haue I geuen vnto thee.
But the first borne of a cowe, sheepe, & goate, shalt thou not redeeme, for they are holy: therfore thou shalt sprinckle their blood vpon the aulter, and shalt burne their fat as a sacrifice made by fire, for a sweete sauour vnto the Lord.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Come to Bethel and transgress,.... and what follows, are ironic and sarcastic speeches, not giving liberty to sin, but in this way reproving for it: Bethel was one of the places where the calves were placed and worshipped: and here they are bid to go thither, and go on with and continue in their idolatrous worship, by which they transgressed the law of God, and mark what would be the issue of it. The sense is the same with Ecclesiastes 11:9; see Ezekiel 20:29;
at Gilgal multiply transgression; that is, multiply acts of idolatry: Gilgal was a place where high places and altars were erected, and idols worshipped; as it had formerly been a place of religious worship of the true God, the ten tribes made use of it in the times of their apostasy for idolatrous worship; see Hosea 4:15;
and bring your sacrifices every morning; and offer them to your idols, as you were wont formerly to offer them unto the true God, according to the law of Moses, Exodus 29:38;
[and] your tithes after three years; the third year after the sabbatical year was the year of tithing; and after the tithe of the increase of the fruits of the earth, there was "maaser sheni", the second tithe, the same with "maaser ani", the poor's tithe, which was given to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless; and the widow, to eat with them, Deuteronomy 14:22; and this they are sarcastically bid to observe in their idolatrous way. It is, in the Hebrew text, "after three days"; and so the Targum,
"your tithes in three days;''
days being put for years, as Kimchi and Ben Melech observe. It may be rendered, "after three years of days" s; three complete years.
s לשלשת ימים "post tres [annos] dierum", Piscator.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Come to Beth-el and transgress - Having foretold their captivity, the prophet tries irony. But his irony is in bidding them go on to do, what they were doing earnestly, what they were set upon doing, and would not be withdrawn from. As Micaiah in irony, until adjured in the name of God, joined Ahab’s court-priests, bidding, him “go to Ramoth-Gilead” 1 Kings 22:15, where he was to perish; or Elijah said to the priests of Baal, “Cry aloud, for he is a god” 1 Kings 18:27; or our Lord, “Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers” Matthew 23:32; so Amos bids them do all they did, in their divided service of God, but tells them that to multiply all such service was to multiply transgression. Yet they were diligent in their way. Their offerings were daily, as at Jerusalem; the tithes of the third year for the poor was paid, as God had ordained Deuteronomy 14:28; Deuteronomy 26:12. They were punctual in these parts of the ritual, and thought much of their punctuality.
So well did they count themselves to stand with God, that there is no mention of sin offering or trespass offering. Their sacrifices were “sacrifics of thanksgiving” and “free will offerings,” as if out of exuberance of devotion, such as David said that Zion would “offer,” when God had been “favorable and gracious unto” her Psalms 51:18-19. These things they did; they “proclaimed” and “published” them, like the hypocrites whom our Lord reproves, “sounding a trumpet before them” Matthew 6:2 when they did alms; proclaiming these private offerings, as God bade proclaim the solemn assemblies. “For so ye love.” They did it, because they liked it, and it cost them nothing, for which they cared. It was more than most Christians will sacrifice, two fifteenths of their yearly income, if they gave the yearly tithes, which were to be shared with the poor also. But they would not sacrifice what God, above all, required, the fundamental breach of God’s law, on which their kingdom rested, “the sin which Jeroboam made Israel to sin.” They did what they liked; they were pleased with it, and they had that pleasure for their only reward, as it is of all which is not done for God.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Amos 4:4. Come to Beth-el and transgress — Spoken ironically. Go on to worship your calves at Beth-el; and multiply your transgressions at Gilgal; the very place where I rolled away the reproach of your fathers, by admitting them there into my covenant by circumcision. A place that should have ever been sacred to me; but you have now desecrated it by enormous idolatries. Let your morning and evening sacrifices be offered still to your senseless gods; and continue to support your present vicious priesthood by the regular triennial tithes which should have been employed in my service; and,
