The center piece of Amos chapter 5 is the striking call to the people to give up their festival pilgrimages to the three great shrines of Bethel, Beer-sheba, and Gilgal. To appreciate the force of what Amos is saying, we must try to understand what motivated the people to journey annually to these places. 

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