Amos 5:25 (KJV)

Passage

Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

Nearby Context

Amos 5:23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.

Amos 5:24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

Amos 5:25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

Amos 5:26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

Amos 5:27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "offered", "sacrifices", "offerings", "wilderness", "forty", "years", "house", and "israel". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "offered" and "sacrifices", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 24's "But let judgment run down as waters..." into verse 26's "But ye have borne the tabernacle of...", so "offered" and "sacrifices" belong inside that flow. In Amos context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "offered" and "sacrifices" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.