Amos 5:25 References
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"aDid you present Me with sacrifices and grain offerings in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel?
a Deuteronomy 32:17, Joshua 24:14, Nehemiah 9:18-21, Acts 7:42, Acts 7:43
Deuteronomy 32
17
"aThey sacrificed to demons who were not God, bTo gods whom they have not known, cNew gods who came lately, Whom your fathers did not dread.
Joshua 24
14
"Now, therefore, afear the Lord and serve Him in sincerity and truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.
Nehemiah 9
18
"Even when they amade for themselves A calf of molten metal And said, 'This is your God Who brought you up from Egypt,' And committed great blasphemies,
19
aYou, in Your great compassion, Did not forsake them in the wilderness; bThe pillar of cloud did not leave them by day, To guide them on their way, Nor the pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they were to go.
20
"aYou gave Your good Spirit to instruct them, Your manna You did not withhold from their mouth, And You gave them water for their thirst.
21
"Indeed, aforty years You provided for them in the wilderness and they were not in want; Their clothes did not wear out, nor did their feet swell.
Acts 7
42
"But God aturned away and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, 'bIT WAS NOT TO ME THAT YOU OFFERED VICTIMS AND SACRIFICES cFORTY YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS, WAS IT, O HOUSE OF ISRAEL?