Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Amos 4:4

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4. God gives them up to their self-willed idolatry, that they may see how unable their idols are to save them from their coming calamities. So :- . Beth-el — ( :- ). Gilgal — ( Hosea 4:15 ; Hosea 9:15 ; Hosea 12:11 ). sacrifices every morning —as commanded in the law ( Numbers 28:3 ; Numbers 28:4 ). They imitated the letter, while violating by calf-worship the spirit, of the Jerusalem temple-worship. after three years —every third year; literally, "after three (years of) days" (that is, the fullest complement of days, or a year ); "after three full years." Compare Leviticus 25:20 ; Judges 17:10 , and "the days" for the years, Joel 1:2 . So a month of days is used for a full month, wanting no day to complete it ( Genesis 29:14 , Margin; Numbers 11:20 ; Numbers 11:21 ). The Israelites here also kept to the letter of the law in bringing in the tithes of their increase every third year ( Deuteronomy 14:28 ; Deuteronomy 26:12 ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-5" class="com-number"

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