John Trapp Complete Commentary - Amos 5:21
Amo 5:21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. Ver. 21. I hate, I despise your feast days ] Wherewith ye think to stop my mouth and to make me your debtor; saying, as that Roman emperor, when his enemy came against him, Non sic Deos coluimus ut ille nos vinceret, We have not so served the gods that they should serve us no better than to give the enemy the better of us. The feast days and solemn assemblies you so much build upon are yours, and not... read more
The Biblical Illustrator - Amos 5:21-24
Amos 5:21-24I hate, I despise your feast days.The Divinely abhorrent and the Divinely demandedI. The Divinely abhorrent. The same aversion from the ceremonial observances of the insincere and rebellious Israelites which Jehovah here expresses He afterwards employed Isaiah to declare to the Jews (Amos 1:10). The two passages are strikingly parallel, only the latter prophet amplifies what is set forth in a more condensed form by Amos. It is also to be observed, that where Amos introduces the... read more