Matthew Poole and continuators on Amos 5:25

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

Their Fathers and they, though at so great distance of time are one people, and so the Prophet considers them in this place.

Did you not frequently omit to offer, and yet were not reproved or plagued for the omission, when your frequent removes, and many other difficulties made it unpracticable, so little is Sacrifice with your God! and yet when you did offer,

was it to me only, or did you not sacrifice to Idols and false Gods, and provoked me? Will worship and Idolatry have been hereditary diseases in your Generations; and it is well known too, that these Idolaters fell in the Wilderness, and are made admonitions to you.

Of beasts slain, as the word properly speaks.

Minchab in general [illegible: 1 letter]s any gift or present made, but particularly here it is a gift or present of fine flower, Oyl and Frankincense unto God with the Sacrifice.

It was a broken number of years in exact account, that is 38 An. and 11 Moneths, but as is common in such cases, the full and round number is taken, and so the account runs here, and in Acts 7.42. fourty years.

You of the ten Tribes.

Marginal references: Acts [illegible: 1 span]