Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
gave them up—judicially.
as . . . written in the book of the prophets—the twelve minor prophets, reckoned as one: the passage is from Amos 5:25.
have ye offered to me . . . sacrifices?—The answer is, Yes, but as if ye did it not; for "neither did ye offer to Me only, nor always, nor with a perfect and willing heart" [BENGEL].
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