Monday, December 14, 2015

Amos Analysis 5:21

Walk through Amos, verse by verse, with the great Bible Commentaries of Matthew Henry (1662 - 1714) & Adam Clarke (1760 - 1832)


5:21
 
I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
KJV

 
 
 {I hated and casted away your feast days, and I shall not take the odour of your companies.} Wycliffe's Bible
 
I hate, I despise your feast days - I abominate those sacrificial festivals where there is no piety, and I despise them because they pretend to be what they are not. This may refer to the three annual festivals which were still observed in a certain way among the Israelites.