SEV Biblia, Chapter 4:4
Id a Bet-el, y prevaricad; en Gilgal aumentad la rebelión, y traed de mañana vuestros sacrificios, y vuestros diezmos cada tres años;
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Amos 4:4
Verse 4. Come to Beth-el and transgress] Spoken ironically. Go on to worship your calves at Beth-el; and multiply your transgressions at Gilgal; the very place where I rolled away the reproach of your fathers, by admitting them there into my covenant by circumcision. A place that should have ever been sacred to me; but you have now desecrated it by enormous idolatries. Let your morning and evening sacrifices be offered still to your senseless gods; and continue to support your present vicious priesthood by the regular triennial tithes which should have been employed in my service; and:-
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 4. Come to Bethel and transgress , etc.] and what follows, are ironic and sarcastic speeches, not giving liberty to sin, but in this way reproving for it: Bethel was one of the places where the calves were placed and worshipped: and here they are bid to go thither, and go on with and continue in their idolatrous worship, by which they transgressed the law of God, and mark what would be the issue of it. The sense is the same with ( Ecclesiastes 11:9); (see Ezekiel 20:29); at Gilgal multiply transgression ; that is, multiply acts of idolatry: Gilgal was a place where high places and altars were erected, and idols worshipped; as it had formerly been a place of religious worship of the true God, the ten tribes made use of it in the times of their apostasy for idolatrous worship; (see Hosea 4:15 9:15 12:11); and bring your sacrifices every morning ; and offer them to your idols, as you were wont formerly to offer them unto the true God, according to the law of Moses, ( Exodus 29:38,39); [and] your tithes after three years ; the third year after the sabbatical year was the year of tithing; and after the tithe of the increase of the fruits of the earth, there was “maaser sheni”, the second tithe, the same with “maaser ani”, the poor’s tithe, which was given to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless; and the widow, to eat with them, ( Deuteronomy 14:22-28 26:12); and this they are sarcastically bid to observe in their idolatrous way. It is, in the Hebrew text, “after three days”; and so the Targum, “your tithes in three days;” days being put for years, as Kimchi and Ben Melech observe. It may be rendered, “after three years of days” f114 ; three complete years.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-5 - What is got by extortion is commonly used to provide for the flesh, an to fulfil the lusts thereof. What is got by oppression cannot be enjoyed with satisfaction. How miserable are those whose confidence i unscriptural observances only prove that they believe a lie! Let us se to it that our faith, hope, and worship, are warranted by the Divin word.
Original Hebrew
באו 935 בית אל 1008 ופשׁעו 6586 הגלגל 1537 הרבו 7235 לפשׁע 6586 והביאו 935 לבקר 1242 זבחיכם 2077 לשׁלשׁת 7969 ימים 3117 מעשׂרתיכם׃ 4643
