Matthew Poole and continuators on Amos 5:22

22 Though ye offer me burnt-offerings , and your meat-offerings , I will not accept them : neither will I regard the peace-offerings of your fat beasts .

That have departed from my Temple, Law and Institutions, you of the ten Tribes.

Which was wholly burnt on the Altar; no part due to any but God; of this these Hypocrites had a high esteem, Micah 6.6. because they accounted it an entire gift to God.

To your burnt-offering add the other, your meat-offering also, as Lev. 2.1, 2. Numb. 6.17. Vid. Ioel 1.13. and 2.14.

It may be a Meiosis, I will as ver. 21. hate them.

Your Thank-offerings too, of which Lev. 6.12. and 7.15 your praises for your prosperity is no better pleasing neither.

In these Peace-offerings, though you bring the best, the fattest, yet you bring nothing but a beast, for you leave your hearts with your sins, and you have no warrant from God to do this, nay, you are prohibited, for you are to offer only at Ierusalem, and at the Temple.

Marginal references: Or, thank-offe[illegible: 1 letter]ings.