Amos 5:25

The Day Of Yahweh

²⁴ Justice should roll down as waters and righteousness as a mighty stream. ²⁵ “Did you present Me with sacrifices and grain offerings in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel? ²⁶ You have carried the tabernacle of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.

Forty Years

Grain Offering

House of Israel

In the Wilderness

Offered Sacrifices

In The Desert

Amos

Israel

Acts 7:42-43

God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven. It is written in the book of the prophets: O you house of Israel, have you offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?

Joshua 24:14

Honor Jehovah and serve him sincerely and in truth. Get rid of the gods that your ancestors used to worship in Mesopotamia and in Egypt, and serve only Jehovah.

Nehemiah 9:18

Even when they made for themselves a bull out of metal, and said: 'This is your God who took you up out of Egypt, and had done so much to make you angry.'

Nehemiah 9:21

Truly, for forty years you were their support in the wilderness. They needed nothing. Their clothing did not get old or their feet become tired.

Leviticus 17:7

The people must stop sacrificing to goat idols (demons) and chasing after them as though they were prostitutes. This is a long lasting law for the people and for future generations.

Deuteronomy 32:17-19

They sacrificed to demons that are not God. They served gods they did not know. These were new gods who came from nearby, gods your ancestors never worshiped.

Isaiah 43:23-24

You did not bring me sheep for your burnt offerings or honor me with your sacrifices. I did not burden you by requiring grain offerings or trouble you by requiring incense offerings.

Ezekiel 20:8

They defied me and refused to listen. They did not throw away their disgusting idols or give up the Egyptian gods. I was ready to let them feel the full force of my anger there in Egypt.

Ezekiel 20:16

They rejected my rules. They did not live by my laws. They dishonored the days to worship me, because their hearts chased disgusting idols.

Ezekiel 20:24

I did this because they had rejected my commands, broken my laws, profaned the Sabbath, and worshiped the same idols their ancestors had served.

Hosea 9:9-10

They have gone deep in depravity as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish their sins.

Zechariah 7:5

Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying: 'For the past seventy years did you fast for me when you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months?