Amos 4:4

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בֹּ֤אוּ בֵֽית־אֵל֙ וּפִשְׁע֔וּ הַגִּלְגָּ֖ל הַרְבּ֣וּ לִפְשֹׁ֑עַ וְהָבִ֤יאוּ לַבֹּ֙קֶר֙ זִבְחֵיכֶ֔ם לִשְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת יָמִ֖ים מַעְשְׂרֹֽתֵיכֶֽם׃

Transliteration

Bōʾû Bêt-ʾĒl û-pišʿû the-Gilgāl harbû to lipshoaʿ wǝ-hābîʾû to the-boqer zibḥêkem, to šǝlōshet yāmîm maʿśrōtêkem

Grammar Details

• *Bōʾû*: imperative, masculine plural - come/go
• *Bêt*-*ʾĒl*: proper noun - Bethel (house of God)
• *û-pišʿû*: conjunction + imperative, masculine plural - and transgress/rebel
• *Gilgāl*: proper noun - Gilgal
• *harbû*: imperative, masculine plural, hiphil - multiply/increase
• *lipshoaʿ*: preposition + infinitive construct - to transgress/rebel
• *wǝ-hābîʾû*: conjunction + imperative, masculine plural, hiphil - and bring
• *boqer*: noun, masculine singular - morning
• *zibḥêkem*: noun, masculine plural with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your sacrifices
• *šǝlōshet*: cardinal number, feminine construct - three of
• *yāmîm*: noun, masculine plural - days
• *maʿśrōtêkem*: noun, feminine plural with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your tithes

Word Meanings

• *Bêt*-*ʾĒl*: Bethel - important cultic center in northern Israel
• *Gilgāl*: Gilgal - place of worship
• *pišʿû*: transgress/rebel/commit offense
• *harbû*: multiply/increase/make abundant

Referenced Verses

• Hos 4:15 : 15 Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.
• Ezek 20:39 : 39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.
• Matt 23:32 : 32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
• Hos 9:15 : 15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.
• Hos 12:11 : 11 Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
• Num 28:3-4 : 3 And thou shalt say unto them, This is the offering made by fire which ye shall offer unto the LORD; two lambs of the first year without spot day by day, for a continual burnt offering. 4 The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and the other lamb shalt thou offer at even;
• Deut 14:28-29 : 28 At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates: 29 And the Levite,(because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.
• Deut 26:12 : 12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled;
• Eccl 11:9 : 9 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
• Joel 3:9-9 : 9 Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: 10 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. 11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD. 12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.
• Amos 3:14 : 14 That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.
• Amos 5:5 : 5 But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.
• Amos 5:21-22 : 21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. 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.
• Matt 26:45 : 45 Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
• Mark 5:5 : 5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
• Mark 14:41 : 41 And he cometh the third time, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: it is enough, the hour is come; behold, the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.