Amos 4:4

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

Cross-references

Amos 5:5 Contrast

Amos 5:5 directly reverses this invitation: 'Do not seek Bethel, enter not Gilgal' — showing these places are doomed, not blessed.

Amos 3:14 Parallel

Amos 3:14 specifies punishment on Bethel's altars, directly connecting to the sarcastic call to worship at Bethel in 4:4.

Amos 5:22 Parallel

Amos 5:22 directly states God will not accept their offerings—same book, same theme of rejected worship.

Deuteronomy 14:28 commands a tithe every three years — mocking Israel's 'tithes every three days' as a distortion of God's law.

Hosea 9:15 Parallel

Hosea 9:15 declares Gilgal the place where God began to hate Israel — explaining why the 'multiply transgression' here is so serious.

Hosea 4:15 Parallel

Hosea 4:15 warns Judah not to go to Gilgal or Beth-aven (Bethel) — echoing the same prohibition against these corrupt worship sites.

Ezekiel 20:39 gives a similar sarcastic command to serve idols, mirroring Amos's 'come to Bethel and transgress'.

Hosea 9:4 Parallel

Hosea 9:4 says their sacrifices are defiled and unacceptable—same rejection of false worship.

Numbers 28:4 specifies morning and evening offerings — contrasting with the perversion of daily sacrifices mentioned here.

In Matthew 23:32, Jesus uses the same ironic command to 'fill up the measure' of sin — echoing the sarcastic invitation here to multiply transgression.

1 Chronicles 16:40 establishes a regular morning sacrifice at the tabernacle — Amos 4:4 sarcastically invites sacrificing every morning as sin.

Deuteronomy 26:12 sets apart the third-year tithe for the Levite and poor — Amos 4:4 mocks tithing as multiplying transgression.

Deuteronomy 14:29 prescribes tithes every third year for the needy — Amos 4:4 twists this into a sarcastic call to tithe every three days as transgression.

Numbers 28:3 commands a daily lamb offering — the legitimate practice that Israel's 'every morning' sacrifices parody here.

Isaiah 29:1 Parallel

Isaiah 29:1 also sarcastically urges continued feasts while judgment is near—same ironic tone toward empty worship.

2 Kings 2:23 describes youths from Bethel mocking Elisha, showing Bethel's rebellion — Amos 4:4 calls Bethel a place of transgression.

Hosea 12:11 Parallel

Hosea 12:11 mentions sacrificing bulls in Gilgal — confirming the idolatrous worship context of the sacrifices mentioned here.

Joshua 4:19 Contrast

Joshua 4:19 marks Gilgal as Israel's first camp in Canaan, a place of memorial — Amos 4:4 indicts it as a center of transgression.

1 Kings 18:27 shows Elijah sarcastically taunting Baal's prophets — Amos 4:4 uses similar sarcasm to expose Israel's false worship.